Discurso, imprensa e reprodução da discriminação

Magalhães, Belmira

doi:10.28998/0103-6858.1999n23p91-111

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“…Although criticized by radical feminist opponents as a "measure supporting pimps", the bill in fact restricted the amount of surplus that could be extracted from third party sex work, and would have been the first law ever in Brazilian history to set strict limits on employers financial exploitation of workers of any sort. More importantly, the bill would have cleared the way for sex worker-owned and -operated collectives in Brazil's sexual commercial economy, as well as retirement, health, and safety benefits for sex workers under Brazil's existing labor laws 2 (for more information on the history of Davida, see Leite 2009;Magalhães 1987;Murray 2013Murray , 2015Skackauskas 2012;Strack 1996).…”

Section: Davida (Re)enters the Anti-trafficking Debatementioning

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A Place at the Table: Sex Workers and Allies in the Redefinition of Brazil’s Anti-Trafficking Law

Blanchette

2022

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The present article is a brief account of the representational politics surrounding the insertion of the Brazilian prostitutes’ movement into anti-trafficking policy-making, following the 2013 death of Gabriela Leite, one of the founders and principal leaders of the movement. Leite’s death left an organizational hole in the attempts by one of Brazil’s oldest sex worker NGOs, Davida, to secure a place for sex workers at the policy-making table in the rewriting of the country´s anti-trafficking laws. Here, we relate how sex workers, academics, journalists, and activists came together to attempt to patch that hole, successfully fighting for sex worker representation in the governmental organs overseeing the struggle against human trafficking in Rio and, more broadly, Brazil. The re-organization of this project following the death of Gabriela highlights how multifaceted alliances between differently positioned actors can leverage the visibility and power of sex workers in culture and politics, creating opportunities to implement policies that favor prostitute rights.

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Section: Davida (Re)enters the Anti-trafficking Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

A Place at the Table: Sex Workers and Allies in the Redefinition of Brazil’s Anti-Trafficking Law

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2022

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Discurso, imprensa e reprodução da discriminação

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A Place at the Table: Sex Workers and Allies in the Redefinition of Brazil’s Anti-Trafficking Law

A Place at the Table: Sex Workers and Allies in the Redefinition of Brazil’s Anti-Trafficking Law

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