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It’s time again! June 2nd is #Internationalwhoresday when we celebrate the daring tricks and whorestorical delights of the 1975 French #sexworkers strike.
So if you dig a good #whorestory join me as I reach into the archives (if I can get it together).
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So if you dig a good #whorestory join me as I reach into the archives (if I can get it together).
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The strike was prompted by a string of unsolved brutal murders of sex workers in and around Lyon. At the same time, the police also clamped down on the small hotels where sex workers saw their clients. Sound familiar?
The 40 year + contemporary sex worker rights movement has a vibrant history but most people will have trouble finding anything about it in the public sphere cause stigma means whores are rarely seen as capable of organising anything let alone a workers rights movement.
The 40 year + contemporary sex worker rights movement has a history but most will have trouble finding it. So each year on June 2nd #sexworkers everywhere commemorate one of their movement's most vivid revolts and share their whorestories on #InternationalWhoresDay. Enjoy.
Strike headquarters was St Nizier Church in Lyon, a celebrated example of French Gothic architecture visited by thousands of tourists each year. But amongst the Churches many displays there's none that acknowledge its week-long asylum seekers who became global media sensations.
But experienced sex worker activists like Roberta Perkins from the Australian Prostitutes Collective knew about the French strike and, during the 1980's she'd recount to us young whores the story of the strike and other #sexworker protests. These were our "motivational moments".
There is always a lot to say about sex work on #InternationalWomensDay, and this year is no exception.
At NUM, we are able to witness, participate in and move forward because of the incredible work of women each and every day.
At NUM, we are able to witness, participate in and move forward because of the incredible work of women each and every day.
Just last week, we honoured the 25,000 sex workers, mainly women, who took to the streets in Calcutta in 2001 to demand rights and recognition as workers as part of #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay. We are able to do what we do because of them.
In June, on #InternationalWhoresDay, we will remember the sex workers and those women who stood in solidarity with them in Lyon who occupied a church to demand an end to state violence against them. We are able to do what we do because of them.
