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Joannes Truyens

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Writer | narrative designer | IGF-nominated "experimental dungeon master" of Neurocracy

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A process

1950s-1990s: Queer people are excluded from mainstream spaces; create our own, alternative spaces (bars, magazines etc). Due to oppressive laws, these spaces may be partially or entirely "underground".

2000s-2010s: Queer people are now included in mainstream spaces. Stripped of a specific motivation for existence, dedicated queer spaces die off.

2020s: Amidst rising intolerance, new oppressive laws and "Mastercard", queer people are now excluded from mainstream spaces again. Dedicated/alternative queer spaces begin to re-emerge. (But in a weird and possibly mostly online way, because in a parallel development non-online spaces have been killed by high-rent blight and COVID). Depending on how bad the new laws wind up being, these spaces may turn out to be partially or entirely "underground".

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cryptocoin is a grifter landfill but it's actually already been pretty useful as an alternate payment platform for sex work

it has soooooo many many drawbacks and takes so much time, but you gotta hand it to cryptocoins regarding sex work specifically

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Responding to all above comments: I actually do believe that cryptocurrency is a viable mitigation for queer exclusion from financial networks. However, I also believe that cryptocurrency does not exist. I believe that the things claiming to be cryptocurrency are global-warming-causing financial-speculation scams, and I believe their financial center of gravity is such that if someone made an "actual" cryptocurrency it would wind up getting coopted, subsumed and made useless by the scams— I.E., either its value would be destabilized by the currency speculators manipulating every other part of the cryptocoin ecosystem, or the Bitcoin financial ecosystem would use it to prop up its global terraforming project. I'm open to be pleasantly surprised on this but (for example) Tether failed to pleasantly surprise me.

I cannot comment on what systems sex workers find themselves needing to avail themselves of, but I doubt those approaches can generalize.

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