Poor Foxxy

Whilst at Freeset the other day, a few thoughts and feelings came up. Freeset is an awesome organisation that does some pretty awesome work for sexworkers throughout the city. They provide them with alternative work making a range of bags and clothes that you will most likely see your sons rocking when they come home, and I think that a couple of parents were even lucky enough to get presents. They have around 200 woman working there currently, which is a massive achievement. But one thing that really strikes me is that there are 10000 woman still out there "on the line" as they call it. Freeset do amazing work and I would never take it away from them, but the question in my mind is why. The impact is so small. Almost nothing changes. I don't mean to sound arrogant or say that these people do not deserve help, because they do. But it is hard to see such small changes. In a way, this is simply testament to the nature of the people involved in Freeset, and how inspirational they are. But I still wonder why. There are some amazing people here working with and for the people. But is that the best thing to be doing? Can we not help the people in other bigger and better ways?

Also at Freeset, we were shown around by a pretty cool dude from Auckland called Sam. He was over there spending the year working for Freeset. India is a difficult place to explain and I thought he did it perfectly. Sam said that India was raw. He said that there was none of the background noise that is so evident in our lives back home. No worrying about things that don't matter. It is raw in the way that there is no in the middle. Here your emotions fly all over the show from up to low. But never in the middle. Things are either very cool, or impossibly hard. This to me has been one of the more difficult things looking around. Your emotions are all over the place and don't give you a moment's rest. In some ways it is good though. When you are down, and things feel like hell. You just have to wait it out, for things will get better.

Freeset was a truly inspiring place, and although it raised questions, I have no doubt they are good things to be thinking about.

Finally and most importantly, Mr Skeen made a claim that I had been "inappropriately skuxxing", and I wish to argue this. Hamish Fox was witness to the incident and it was him that made the claim. There was no "skuxxing" involved, rather, simple conversation making with a female, of which Fox was upset about, as she talked to me, not him. Poor Foxxy.

Jonty