Rundown



Mexie is joined by Esperanza Fonseca and Khara Jabola-Carolus of the transnational feminist and anti-imperialist organization, AF3IRM, to discuss the history and present of the global sex trade and the insufficiency of the liberal feminist discourses surrounding it. We’ll discuss the history of the industry, its relation to colonialism, imperialism and militarization (as well as patriarchy and capitalism), the class character and class contradictions involved in the trade, the politics of buying, the voices of the most marginalized often left out of mainstream discourses, and visions for a liberated future. We are of course fiercely in support of the workers, or people selling in the trade, and believe liberal feminist discourses do a disservice to all by falsely conflating a critique of the industry and exploiter classes with a critique of the workers.



Sources and Links



* Mexie’s fundraiser for disabled caregiver and community organizer in Toronto who needs urgent help in exiting the sex trade: https://www.gofundme.com/f/4bcge* Khara (decolonizefeminism) on IG: https://www.instagram.com/decolonizefeminism/ * Khara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KharaJabola* Esperanza (proletarianfeminist) on IG: https://www.instagram.com/proletarianfeminist/ * Esperanza on Twitter: https://twitter.com/endclasssociety* AF3IRM: https://af3irm.org/af3irm/ * Bodies Back: https://hawaii-78988.medium.com/the-nordic-model-needs-to-be-toppled-a765b230dd31 * Esperanza Fonseca (Proletarian Feminist): A Socialist, Feminist and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work”: https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/a-socialist-feminist-and-transgender-analysis-of-sex-work-b08aaf1ee4ab* Esperanza Fonseca (Proletarian Feminist): The problem with the phrase “sex work is work”: https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-the-phrase-sex-work-is-work-bdac613eb2f0* The Red Nation with Esperanza Fonseca and Khara Jabola-Carolus: https://soundcloud.com/therednationpod/the-myth-of-sex-work-w* RevLeftRadio with Brigid Ó Coileáin and Esperanza Fonseca: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/prolefem* RevLeftRadio with Tai Lee (Toward a Revolutionary Feminism): https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/feminism* The problem with the phrase “prostitution is the world’s oldest profession”: https://af3irm.org/af3irm/2021/10/prostitution-as-the-worlds-oldest-profession-is-an-imperialist-lie/



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