Today, we speak with sex worker organizations based in the Global South and North about their movement for decriminalization and to be recognized as workers, their struggle within the feminist and other movements, and their struggle against poverty and other violence. Why are sex workers concerned about the push by some sectors of feminism to prioritize trafficking? What are the impacts of laws against sex workers on the most vulnerable populations "in particular, women of color, immigrant women and trans women? How are the murders of indigenous and Black women being used by the trafficking lobby to make their case, while at the same time, they ignore or do nothing about the serial murders of Black women in South Los Angeles? We spend the hour unraveling controversies around sex workers. Our guests are Thailand-based Liz Hilton with Empower Foundation, a large network of sex workers based in Southeast Asia; Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes; and Rachel West of U.S. PROstitutes Collective.
