Integration of harm reduction into the structures of our society is essential to reducing violence against autonomous bodies
As LA City Attorney targets the Figueroa Corridor, where will sex workers go?
by Antonia Crane 12/16/2023
On April 22, 2023, Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto (speaking to people on the other side of the city at the Valley Alliance of Neighborhood Councils) made it clear that she would target the Corridor.
LAPD searching for leads in suspected sex worker slayings, including that of trans woman
by Libor Jany 03/21/24
LAPD homicide detectives continued their search for leads in two fatal shootings this week of women who police say were engaged in sex work. The body of one victim, a transgender woman, was dumped onto a South Los Angeles street from a car that was seen fleeing the area.
International Whores Day – June 2, 2021
International Whores Day commemorates the occupation of Église Saint-Nizier church in Lyon, France, by more than a hundred sex workers on June 2, 1975 to draw attention to inhumane working conditions and police violence against them. That event, in the same era as Stonewall and the Compton’s Cafeteria riot, is considered a starting point of the international movement for sex work rights.