CW: Rape Dear Sister Comrades at Red Canary Song and the NYC DSA Socialist Feminist Working Group, My name is Esperanza and I am a socialist, a feminist, a transgender Latina woman, and a survivor of the sex trade. I am writing to you as comrades in the struggle for socialism and as sisters who have presumably shared the experience of being prostitutes. I prefer…

It is often asserted that Anuradha Ghandy got confused about radical feminists in her critique of the radical trend in her seminal work on feminism. However, she was simply referring to an early split between radical feminists that have been ignored by current commentators. — I have often heard the claim that Anuradha Ghandy’s critique of radical feminism should be rejected in part or whole because of apparent confusion on the position of radical feminists on pornography. …

This interview was originally published on March 20th, 2021 at Twink Revolution and has been reposted here with permission. I conducted this interview to capture the analysis and voice of anti-imperialist LGBT activists. The interview remains incredibly relevant to all organizers attempting to do mass organizing in their own regions. …

I was given permission to share this analysis of the sex trade by the Partido (M-L) De Los Trabajadores, a Marxist-Leninist communist party in Spain. Given the recent discourse, I was struck by how principled and deep this analysis went and how it corrected the ideological and theoretical line on…

I wanted to write a quick note about my issues with the phrase “sex work is work.” It is one of the most common rhetorical devices used by sex trade expansionists. I’m increasingly seeing people responding to any critical take on the sex trade by blurting out “sex work is…

Land and women are not for conquest — Dear Kate, I am deeply sorry to hear what happened to you. The experience you describe is truly terrifying and I think there is something to be said in that we both became politicized, and not simply victimized, from our experiences. Your letter infuriates me. Not because you disagree with…