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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).

1/15 Thread 1975 Lyon sex workers occupy the St Nizier Church, Lyon supp
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? Lyon's Chief of Police was eventually charged with pimping a
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 strike however made headlines in newspapers all over the
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