SWERFy

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SWERF +‎ -y

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SWERFy (comparative SWERFier, superlative SWERFiest)

  1. (informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to anti-sex work feminism.
    • 2021 February 9, nifty nif (@nifty_nif), Twitter[1]:
      Maybe this year we stop saying brandwh*re? Maybe that slur doesn't belong to all of us?? Maybe we think about the SWERFy streak in our community??? Just some thoughts
    • 2021 November 21, natrix (@crypt0natrix), Twitter[2]:
      The most artistic SWers I know don’t want to make NFTs because they see how misogynistic, transphobic, racist and SWERFy the culture is.
    • 2022 February 25, Raani Begum (@raanibegum), Twitter[3]:
      I was in a panel today & pushed back against "public health" narratives that position people selling sex + using drugs as traumatized people first. This is actually a really SWERFy position to take.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:SWERFy.