Art has always been one of the fiercest weapons of survival for sex workers. When our histories are erased, art rewrites them. When the world refuses to see us, art makes us visible. When grief threatens to swallow us whole, art transforms it into something we can hold, share, and use to fight back.
On December 17, as we remember those taken by violence, we also honor the beauty and power that emerge from within our communities - the murals that reclaim the streets that pushed us out, the poetry that tells truths no courtroom ever would, the portraits, zines, and altar pieces that insist: we were here, we are still here, and we will not disappear quietly.
