{"id":2908,"date":"2017-11-28T05:14:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T05:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2017-12-16T02:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T02:13:21","slug":"what-do-sex-workers-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/what-do-sex-workers-want\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT DO SEX WORKERS WANT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-03-at-3.35.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2180\" src=\"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-03-at-3.35.29-PM-300x47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>WHAT DO SEX WORKERS WANT?<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><b>Decriminalization, Labor Rights, Anti-discrimination Legislation<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sex workers want consensual adult sex work to be decriminalized. \u00a0We demand our right to agency and our labor rights, and we demand discrimination and hate crime legislation. \u00a0After we accomplish these goals it will still take several decades for public perception to change and to erase the stigma, as these are the same steps used to gain momentum for LGBT rights.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com\/tag\/gay-liberation\"><b>Sex Worker Revolutionaries and Gay Rights History \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gay rights started on St Christopher St in NYC. \u00a0It was the transgender sex workers who were tired of being robbed, beaten and raped by the cops so they started &#8220;parades&#8221; which turned into the &#8220;gay rights movement&#8221;. \u00a0Society seems to ignore our history and that it was the transgender sex workers that lead the way to gay rights.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/riverarisingandstronger.html\"><b>SYLVIA RIVERA&#8217;S JUNE 2001 TALK AT THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER, NEW YORK CITY<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-15-at-8.27.49-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3218\" src=\"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-15-at-8.27.49-PM-256x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-15-at-8.27.49-PM-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-15-at-8.27.49-PM.png 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0Constitutional Challenge<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the efforts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/esplerp.org\/\">Erotic Service Providers\u2019 Legal Education and Research Project,<\/a> we will be filed a U.S. constitutional challenge on California&#8217;s prostitution law 647 (b). \u00a0(This is similar to the Bedford case in Canada).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esplerp.org\/amicus-briefs-filed-in-support-of-esplerp-v-gascon\/\">amicus briefs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/media\/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000012398\">9th Circuit oral argument Highlights &#8211; a challenge of prostitution law 10\/19\/2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ESPLERP vs Gascon (16-15927)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><b>Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of the USA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestpracticespolicy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2014UPRReportBPPPDASWOPNYC1.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Rights Violations of Sex Workers, people in the Sex Trades, and people profiled as such<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is time to change the social perception that she wasn&#8217;t a person, she was a &#8220;prostitute&#8221;. No one wants to feel a sense of community or sameness with her. She was something other than us and therefore we don\u2019t need to feel fear or grief at the fact or the manner of her death.&#8221;<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT DO SEX WORKERS WANT? Decriminalization, Labor Rights, Anti-discrimination Legislation Sex workers want consensual adult sex work to be decriminalized. \u00a0We demand our right to agency and our labor rights, and we demand discrimination and hate crime legislation. \u00a0After we accomplish these goals it will still take several decades for public perception to change and to erase the stigma, as&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/what-do-sex-workers-want\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,39,37,3,5,34,25,24,42,26,29,30,33,10,14,28,23,8,13,15,31,40,35],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coyoteri","tag-9th-circuit","tag-coyote-ri","tag-decrim-now","tag-esplerp","tag-esplerp-v-gascon","tag-hands-off-our-clients-and-our-money","tag-harm-reduction","tag-human-rights","tag-international-day-to-end-violence-against-sex-workers","tag-labor-rights","tag-not-your-rescue-project","tag-nothing-about-us-without-us","tag-our-lives-our-not-your-fundraising-material","tag-rights-not-rescue","tag-sex-education","tag-sex-trafficking","tag-sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights","tag-sexual-freedom","tag-sexuality","tag-sexuality-and-the-law","tag-someone-i-love-is-a-sex-worker","tag-transgender-day-of-remembrance","tag-who-you-calling-a-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyoteri.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}