International Sex Workers’ Day | Radical Reading
Enjoy 30% off select titles to mark the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the church of Saint-Nizier by French sex workers.
On the morning of Monday, June 2, 1975, one hundred French sex workers began a ten day occupation of the church of Saint-Nizier in Lyon. Their protest was against the repressive policies of the police being implemented against them. A series of solidarity actions at other French churches followed and the action was galvanising for a range of feminist movements, particularly the Wages for Housework campaign.
Women belonging to one of the most marginalized and stigmatized categories of society had dared to unite against police repression and interpellate the government with a publicly presented list of grievances and demands.
On the 50th anniversary of this event, we have collated books on the fight for sex workers’ rights and liberation that include analysis of the sphere or reproduction, conversations with a Black trans revolutionary, and calls for the decriminalisation of sex work.
30% off the below titles ends June 3rd at 11:59pm EST. Discount applies at checkout.
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"When Sex Workers Win, We All Win"
Sex workers’ rights cannot be disentangled from other rights movements. The fight for sex workers’ rights is also the fight for border abolition, for the dismantling of the carceral state, and for disability justice.
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