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   From: bksherman@bleeding-rectums.cnn.com   
      
   U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded Tuesday night to a   
   report that a New York City paramedic was supplementing her   
   income during the coronavirus pandemic by working for a racy   
   website.   
      
   “Sex work is work,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote, retweeting a Rolling   
   Stone magazine story that accused the New York Post of shaming   
   the paramedic, 23-year-old Lauren Kwei, for posting content to   
   the OnlyFans site in order to earn extra money.   
      
   The New York Democrat said any shame should be directed at the   
   federal government, not at sex workers.   
      
   “The federal gov has done almost nothing to help people in   
   months,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “We must pass stimulus checks, UI,   
   small biz relief, hospital funding, etc.   
      
   AOC BLAMES REPUBLICANS NOT WEARING MASKS FOR SHUTDOWNS   
      
   “Keep the focus of shame there,” Ocasio-Cortez added, “not on   
   marginalizing people surviving a pandemic without help.”   
      
   Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez found herself agreeing with   
   Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who has also   
   called for stimulus checks for ordinary Americans to be part of   
   the next coronavirus relief bill.   
      
   "I will gladly work w/ @AOC and anyone else who wants to help   
   working families. Families and working people in need should be   
   the FIRST consideration in COVID relief, not last," Hawley wrote   
   on Twitter on Dec. 4.   
      
   The Rolling Stone article reported that OnlyFans saw sign-ups by   
   creators of racy content spike as much as 75 percent during the   
   pandemic.   
      
   The article added that Kwei also worked as a hostess at a Korean   
   restaurant in order to pay her bills – and then called out the   
   Post for not “applauding her for her entrepreneurial spirit.”   
      
   The magazine also accuses the Post of imperiling Kwei’s job as a   
   health care worker, although a representative of her employer,   
   SeniorCare, told the Daily Beast there were no plans to   
   terminate Kwei.   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez has previously advocated for decriminalizing sex   
   work. Last year she joined fellow progressives Sen. Bernie   
   Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in backing   
   the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-responds-sex-work-is-work-   
   to-report-of-nyc-paramedic-posting-racy-photos-for-cash   
        
      
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