Dec 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, if you weren’t aware. For the first time ever, the folks of SWOP national are organizing a march on Washington for sex workers’ rights visibility. I cannot be there, sadly, but I do hope you all organize and show up. It won’t be quite the Million Whore March I’ve been dreaming of for so long, but the more, the merrier.
I wrote recently about activism and the role of order versus chaos. I do support peaceful, organized marches. I don’t support rampages. I think that if a whole bunch of people can show up to march in Washington and can catch the eye of a couple of news organizations, we just might put sex workers’ rights on the map.
I’ve been reading a lot of blogs about Spitzergate (he won’t face charges! seriously?) and other things in the media about sex work. The comments are a good fifty-fifty between “ya hors kin die alredy!” and “wtf is the deal with prostitution being illegal?”. I don’t think internet comments are at all representative of the zeitgeist of the nation (I finally used that word in this blog! I win!), but I think the public at large needs to realize that as a marginalized group, we are fighting back. And they can fight senseless violence and the wasting of their tax dollars.
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I really wish I could go too, but I didn’t get a job fast enough! I was so looking forward to it too! Ah well! We should coordinate something here in Chicago definitely. Maybe we can try to do this march twice a year? Religious context aside, maybe the swr community can aim to do one on July 22nd too (for those who hate winter), that’s Mary Magdalene’s feast day. Or June 21st, which I think was one of Aphrodite’s feast days. It’d be appropriate!
Yes! Definitely. Organizing in Chicago is a must. And something when it’s not freezing ass cold would be lovely, too.