RGE Ep.5 - Cass Traitor

Today, we’re giving some excellent exposure to Cass Traitor! Cass is a writer, an artist, and a Dominatrix. They are also a freelance feminist journalist who works as an editor for Red Insight (a digital platform for sex workers). Cass also makes live art and short films about mental health, disability, BDSM, sexuality and gender and has been co-devising and performing with the Sex Workers opera (https://sexworkersopera.com/) for 10 years. Meg and Cass talk about the difficulty of breaking into any kind of creative freelance field with no financial support, and how being autistic helped Cass to discover they were an excellent Dominatrix! They also talk about the duality of doing sex work to support their ‘mainstream’ creative work, just how much money Meg spent on her Edinburgh show, and why creative work and other non-traditional forms of labour absolutely need to start being respected as legitimate - and vital - forms of work. Find more about Cass’s work here: https://casstraitor.wixstudio.com/more Follow Cass on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/casstraitor/ And find out more about Red Insight Media (the independent media platform created by and for sex workers that Cass works for) here: - https://www.instagram.com/redinsightmedia - https://redinsight.org/ As always, you can find me here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Megartron BlueSky: https://bsky.app/megartron.bsky.social Twitter: https://x.com/meg_prescott YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MegPrescott/videos Spicy page: @Megartron A lot of the topics that we talk about on really good exposure relate to women's rights, worker rights, and the sorry state that both of those are in right now. We believe that women have the right to choose what they do with their bodies and how they make their money, and we also believe that how we choose to use our bodies should never, ever alleviate perpetrators of violence from accountability. We believe that all workers deserve basic human rights and protections, and we believe that predators are always responsible for violence, not victims. If you agree, please consider donating to national ugly mugs. National ugly mugs is a pioneering national organization that provides greater access to justice and protection for sex workers. You can donate here: https://nationaluglymugs.org/donate you can also follow N.U.M. on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/nationaluglymugs Sex workers are often targeted by dangerous individuals and face obstacles to reporting access to services and police protection. Those who harm sex workers offend against all of us.