EVENT! "Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice: LA Edition" w/ Chanelle Gallant and Kimberly Soriano
πDec. 10, 7-9 pm EST
πStories Books and CafΓ©, Los Angeles, CA
π www.eventbrite.com/e/migrant-se...
EVENT! "Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice: LA Edition" w/ Chanelle Gallant and Kimberly Soriano
πDec. 10, 7-9 pm EST
πStories Books and CafΓ©, Los Angeles, CA
π www.eventbrite.com/e/migrant-se...
"Survivors need to be in charge of their own stories and lives."
"What the rich won't say is that one of the most impactful interventions in a survivor's life is not calling the police β it's redistributed wealth."
#USA #Trafficking #Surveillance #Policing #Incarceration #SexWork #SexualViolence
Kicking us off is a fantastic piece about solidarities in action by Elene Lam & @chanellegallant.bsky.social .
Lots to learn here from Butterfly about how Asian migrant sex workers have organised across silos in Canada and the US.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
βProtecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.β
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
In our latest, we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
www.patreon.com/posts/136180...
Tangentially related, from @chanellegallant.bsky.social :
"Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.... Most go unreported, buried in sealed indictments."
Now unlocked: we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
on.soundcloud.com/VXj8xz6yqW5s...
π₯ quote on the card is from @chanellegallant.bsky.social & Elene Lam @haymarketbooks.org
βHow has the publicβs idea about migrant sex workers become so twisted that their being held in a cage could be described as freedom? Why are brutality and terror seen as promoting public safety, so long as the abuser is the state?β @chanellegallant.bsky.social & Elene Lam inquest.org/the-righ...
Great event w @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam and @redcanarysong.bsky.social
"The most important reason we need a culture of care in our organizations is that we wonβt win without it. Winning requires growth. Growth requires building community. Community requires genuine caring ..." - @chanellegallant.bsky.social @tom-malleson.bsky.social @surjto.bsky.social
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read the full story in our book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-n...
thank you @truthout.org for letting us share the power of migrant sex worker resistance π§¨
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Chanelle Gallant, coauthor βNot Your Rescue Projectβ, on centering migrant sex workers in liberation work, on the new episode of the pod episodes.fm/1653309103/e...
Elene Lam (βNot Your Rescue Projectβ, Butterfly Asian & Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) on the self-appointed saviors who thrive in the anti-sex trafficking industrial complex
βNot Your Rescue Projectβ co-author @chanellegallant.bsky.social defines βcarceral feminismβ, on the new episode of the podcast: episodes.fm/1653309103/e...
hi there, co-author of the piece & thank you for asking! youβre right, there wasnβt an ask in the piece but our book has a chapter dedicated to how you can support migrant swβs. this isnβt just a plug for the bookβwe want the help! And it is critical to learn who migrant swβs are before jumping in.