More celebrity “gender studies scholars”

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Back in 2015, Research Project Korea published a series of memes to mock Hollywood’s “gender studies scholars” who had co-signed a letter by anti-prostitution activists who tried and failed to pressure Amnesty International into dropping plans to adopt a policy that would recommend decriminalizing sex work.

Four years on, talk show host Seth Meyers, former prosecutor Alexi Ashe Meyers (his wife), and actress Ashley Judd join the illustrious club of “Limousine Liberals” claiming to support sex workers while actually promoting laws that harm them.* Images modified by Research Project Korea and Kate Zen (@katezenlove). 

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Ashley Judd and Seth Meyers Say They Want to Help Sex Workers. They Could Start by Shutting Up. 

The "Equality Model" of policing sex represents the same old moralistic claptrap, savior mentality, and pro-incarceration "progressivism" we've seen for more than a century https://t.co/VZ6SCmwrXC

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) November 26, 2019

Seth Myers & his wife support laws like SESTA-FOSTA that kill sex workers.

It’s not the “Equality Model” or “Nordic Model”. Let’s call it what it is from now on. It’s the Deportation Model, the Sex Worker Eviction Model.

Limousine Liberals colonizing our language to violate us https://t.co/OdlGhpbIb9

— Red Canary Song (@RedCanarySong) November 26, 2019

https://twitter.com/katezenlove/status/1199323695619149832

It's been a year since sex worker rights advocates confronted Judd at The Wing and asked her to listen to them. Clearly she has not, or she has and has chosen to ignore them. https://t.co/17uR2b3vyy

— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) November 26, 2019

What you’re doing is wrong and it’s actively harmful to people in sex work. Stop trying to co-opt OUR movement. Sit down and listen, instead of talking over us. #sexwork https://t.co/9RXu9V1pPy

— Mistress Matisse (@mistressmatisse) November 26, 2019

The so-called “Equality Model” hurts sex workers.

Everywhere it’s been implemented, this criminalization of purchase of sex has lead to more dangerous working conditions, deportations, evictions, and few promised services.

Sex workers need Full Decrim for safety & true equality pic.twitter.com/KbzMJ64yI7

— Red Canary Song (@RedCanarySong) November 27, 2019

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*All three of them didn’t just join recently. See, for instance, Amelia McDonell-Parry’s article Ashley Judd Confronted at Women’s Event for Anti-Prostitution Beliefs (Rolling Stone, December 10, 2018).