The sex slum tourist Sarah Jones feels it’s her right to profit from and create policy for sex workers.
Screenshots from the book “Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom” https://twitter.com/yesimsarahjones/status/1347011616793976832
Screenshots from the book “Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom” https://twitter.com/yesimsarahjones/status/1347011616793976832
Sarah Jones research comes from centering herself and her feelings in her travels to eroticized locations.
To her, sex workers are “the enslaved other” and they prove to her that unlike them, she is free.
She used tourism as a way to reaffirm her pre-existing prejudices
To her, sex workers are “the enslaved other” and they prove to her that unlike them, she is free.
She used tourism as a way to reaffirm her pre-existing prejudices
Sarah Jones show creates a mockery of sex workers.
The audience laughs at the idea that women of color are capable of having agency, being empowered, or having sex outside “love”. Our place is to be slaves. This is how privileged people view us.
https://www.ampersandla.com/sell-buy-date-sells-sex-workers-down-the-river/
The audience laughs at the idea that women of color are capable of having agency, being empowered, or having sex outside “love”. Our place is to be slaves. This is how privileged people view us.
https://www.ampersandla.com/sell-buy-date-sells-sex-workers-down-the-river/
Sarah Jones works with people who put sex workers in Rikers Island. Alexi Meyers was a prosecutor for the Brooklyn DAs office for years. Sanctuary for Families advocated for the Human trafficking Intervention Courts that killed Layleen Polcano at Rikers.
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https://www.equalitymodel.com/