Testimonianze di sex workers da Occupy Wall Street

Protest rallies make me horny.
Annie Sprinkle

Da X:talk  alcune testimonianze di sex workers che hanno partecipato alle manifestazioni di Occupy Wall Street

As a sex worker, I joined Occupy Wall Street because the issues that impact both myself and my community are issues that are affecting other workers: lack of affordable housing, healthcare, education, and childcare. I come to stand in solidarity with communities of color, immigrants, Indigenous folks, and LGBTQ folks who have remain disproportionately impacted by a system that has failed to provide justice, decriminalization, destigmatization, and the practice of fundamental rights.
– Hannah, a sex worker for over a decade

We’re participating at OWS because sex work is real work,and all workers deserve living wages, affordable housing, and healthy communities. Sex workers are a part of OWS’s cross movement dialogues at working groups, marches and teach-ins, inorder to build mutual understanding and work for broadbased social change.
– M, an organizer and former sex worker

I hope that my presence at OWS and the sign that I carry  revealing myself as a sex  worker and a person affected by  the crimes committed on Wall  Street, open up people’s minds  to the possibility of including sex  workers in the process of the  people’s liberation.
– Andy, a male prostitute and organizer for sex worker rights

Occupations are at the heart of sexworkers’ rights movements. Think back to the Lyon occupation in France in the1970′s. Taking Times Square last Saturday was a full circle moment, given the history of sex work in Times Square,and the joined forces of corporate andpolitical interests that have displaced sex workers from not just Times Square butany public space. For sex workers, occupying public space is about economics as much as it is free speech.
– Melissa Gira Grant, writer and former sex worker

Via: Why are sex workers and their allies occupying Wall Street?

Grazie alla segnalazione di Marginalia vi propongo anche l’intervento (tradotto in Italiano da MFLA – martedì autogestito da femministe e lesbiche su Radio Onda Rossa) di Angela Davis a Occupy Philadelphia e l’analisi critica di Joel Olson di Bring The Ruckus sul problema razziale all’interno del movimento statunitense intitolato Il candore e il 99%.

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