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Sex work is one of the few ways that women have relatively easy access to upward mobility

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And I think that's why it is so threatening to conservative values or the patriarchy,

Women tend to do most of the emotional and sexual labor in our society, and I think it's

I think that's part of the reason why sex work is so demonized.

The police can't protect you if you're in a criminalized market.

When they are walking around on the street.

The most that police will do for you is give you a fine, and if they're very generous

We're not the animals who they think that we are.

We're not the sex worker on your street corner robbing your apartment.

The most dehumanizing thing is to be criminalized for your labor and trying to survive.

This reminds me of when my parents used to send these really pretty dresses to me from

I grew up in Honduras, in kind of like a mountainous region.

I had to be smuggled over the border when I was 5.

Growing up, my parents influenced a lot of my sexuality and the way I look at my gender.

I was raised to show off my sexuality, but to not be a whore.

mold that my parents wanted me in because I loved sexuality and I was fascinated by

it, and I feel like the more they policed me, the more it kind of drove me towards it.

Nobody has really been able to deter people away from sex work.

So at what point do you sit down and say, "Hey we have an issue.

We want to make sure that they have the resources and are able to report violence against them.

And they're never going to be able to do that if we continue to stigmatize and criminalize

The decrim- bill, what it does is change the penal code for only two of the three parties

that word I hate, the sex worker and the customer.

So we're trying to decriminalize the interaction between the worker and the customer, but leave

the penal code intact for the trafficker to make sure that they are still put behind bars

So you can't tell me that you're, for example, a pro-choice person who supports the rights

but don't support the right to do sex work when it's a person's autonomy, it's a person's

You know, that was with me taking several months off, you know, going on vacation.

you're really on top of it and approaching it as a job and as a career, I have a really

It's been both emotionally and financially rewarding.

People like me who are white, thin, conventionally attractive, basically aren't affected by criminalization

Whereas people like some of my friends who

might be Black, might be trans, they are going to have the police throw at them whatever

I think a lot of the work that's being done to decriminalize sex work is really important.

It's going to be absolutely necessary for our community to heal from the very real trauma

move away from policing, and prison, and criminalization as a deterrent

If you think you don't know a sex worker, you're mistaken.

We know it's not going to be easy and we know it's going to take a long time.