“All of the issues I listed above affect all three groups that people like Scarpa harbor prejudices against: transgender women, HIV positive people, and people in the sex trades. This is no coincidence: these injustices all stem from the belief that we are a lower class of individuals that don’t deserve to protect ourselves, don’t deserve housing, and don’t deserve healthcare. Othered, subalterns, social outcasts, whatever you want to call it, we are grouped together under the banner of “undesirable.” And while we may blast Scarpa for so utterly dehumanizing someone in our community, the reasons why mainstream society wants to shut him up are much more sinister. For at its heart, Scarpa’s advocacy for the murder of HIV poz trans women in the sex trades comes from the same ideology held by those in power in the United States. His tactless statements threaten to reveal the intentional implementation of inequality they work so hard to portray as natural and unavoidable.”
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Emma Caterine
"The Higher End of the Community": John Scarpa and Solidarity
(via sexworkerproblems)