Understanding the complexities of sex work/trade and trafficking
Subtitle: a companion reader to War on Terror & War on Trafficking
By: Emi Koyama
Edition: "Version 1.2"
Publisher: Confluere Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Portland, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Prostitutes; Child prostitutes; Human trafficking
Description: In this companion zine to War on Terror & War on Trafficking, Emi Koyama, a former sex worker herself, criticizes mainstream anti-trafficking rhetoric that persecutes sex workers and instead outlines the complexities of the sex trade. Broken into short essays, she discusses sex work as a survival tactic, the push and pull factors that lead youth to the sex trade, the misrepresentation and unproductive prosecution of pimps, the invisibility of transgender youth in the sex trade and the ensuing consequences, the shut-down of the Occupy Portland movement, and how politicians create conditions that exacerbate the youth sex trade. This zine includes a glossary and a list of national resource groups that share her ideas about the sex industry. In the end, there are images of handout materials from sex trade resource programs such as SAVVY.
Notes: Cover title.

Purchased from the author at the Women of Color Zine Symposium in 2012.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Understanding the complexities of sex work/trade and trafficking : ten observations from a sex worker activist/survivor/feminist --; title: Youth in the sex trade : how understanding "push" and "pull" facotrs can better inform public policy  --; title: Consent is overrated : why "yes means yes, no means no" is inadequate --; title: Anti-trafficking documentary praises politicians who promoted policies that increase trafficking --; title: Pimping does not equal slavery : thoughts on resiliance of youth and adults who have pimps --; title: The anti-trafficking movement and the betrayal of street youth by the social services industrial complex --; title: Erasure of transgender youth in the sex trade : how transgender community, sex workers' movement, and anti-trafficking movement fail transgender youth  --; title: "Rescue" versus peer support : a comparison of outreach materials --