Photographer Vera Rodriguez captured the “Sex Workers Who Changed History Fashion Show”. This fashion show tells the heroic stories of famous sex workers through the ages. Want to experience this live? On Friday, October 11, the show will be featured as part of the Utrecht Queer Culture Festival at the Nijverheidskade 15 in Utrecht. Here you can also enjoy the Reimagining Sex Work photo exhibition.
All photos by Vera Rodriguez.
Reimagining Sex Work on tour
ARTICLE: Reimagining Sex Work is a feminist activist collective, formed to address the Dutch mainstream media and the many problematic terms and images they use to report on sex work, by bringing together sex workers and journalists.
Vera Rodriguez presents 20 years of sex work photography
PHOTOGRAPHY: Vera Rodriguez has been documenting many aspects of sex work, drawing from her own experiences and that of the community, for the past twenty years.
Update: The continued fight for the Red Light
Two years ago, writer and window worker El reported on the fight to keep workspaces open in Amsterdam’s De Wallen. During a pause from active protest, El writes an update from the eye of the storm.