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Holding Space for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Feb 18 2020
By: Ricci Levy On December 17, we mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. There has been a wave in the news about the violence and high rate of murders being inflicted on sex workers since the passage of the hideous SESTA/FOSTA legislation. That violence and those murders require that we pay attention all year, but especially today. Do you know the story of how this day became a memorial? The day was founded by Annie Sprinkle and the Sex Worker Outreach Project in 2003 in response to a statement by serial killer, Gary Ridgway, who had murdered at least 48 people, the majority of whom were sex workers. In a public letter back in 2003, Annie Sprinkle stated, “Violent crimes against sex workers go underreported, unaddressed, and unpunished. There really are people who don’t care when prostitutes [sic] are victims of hate crimes, beaten, raped, and murdered. No matter what you think about sex workers and the politics surrounding them, sex workers are a part o
By: Ricci Levy On December 17, we mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. There has been a wave in the news about the violence and high rate of murders being inflicted on sex workers since the passage of the hideous SESTA/FOSTA legislation. That violence and those murders require that we pay attention all year, but especially today. Do you know the story of how this day became a memorial? The day was founded by Annie Sprinkle and the Sex Worker Outreach Project in 2003 in response to a statement by serial killer, Gary Ridgway, who had murdered at least 48 people, the majority of whom were sex workers. In a public letter back in 2003, Annie Sprinkle stated, “Violent crimes against sex workers go underreported, unaddressed, and unpunished. There really are people who don’t care when prostitutes [sic] are victims of hate crimes, beaten, raped, and murdered. No matter what you think about sex workers and the politics surrounding them, sex workers are a part o