THE ON-GOING STRUGGLE FOR EMPOWERMENT, VISIBILITY, AND RIGHTS FOR ALL SEX WORKERS

Following the recent events where Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP USA), and all its chapters, joined individuals and organizations around the world in recognizing December 17 as the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, we feel that it is timely to republish this article on the four-day Sex Workers Festival of Resistance, that was held to organise and fight for sex worker rights.

The Left Politics of Nostalgia: Against Romanticizing the Past, Towards Fighting for Revolution

In introducing and utilising a conceptual split between “now” and “back then”, movements and writers ignore the underlying structural and cultural forces that fuelled recent developments and myopically scramble for a “change” which is essentially nothing but a regression.