Poem by Paprika

Hello to you, beautiful sex worker. Whore. Working girl. Courtesan.

Who appears on the sidewalk, on adult classified websites, who dances on a stage in stiletto heels.

Who travels from one city to another. Who crosses borders.

 

Hello to you, beautiful sex worker.

Who demands freedom beneath a red umbrella.

Who negotiates condom use even in times of austerity.

Who collectively takes part in the mobilization of whores for the recognition of their rights!

 

Hello to you, beautiful sex worker.

Who lives under systemic injustice.

Discrimination. Stigmatization. Racism. Colonialism. Whorephobia. Transphobia.

The Violence of carceral feminists and laws that facilitate our exploitation and kill us.

 

Hello to you, beautiful sex worker.

Who lives under systemic injustice.

Solidarity to you. I know you exist and I see you.

I feel the strength of the resistance from feminist sex workers.

Billy Lux