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South African Sex Workers Embrace Feminism
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
12 Mar 2019
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By studying feminism, sex workers learned “that self-identification of being a feminist actually strengthened our sex worker rights politics,” said Nkozo Yingwana, a doctoral student and researcher for the African Sex Workers Alliance. The fundamental truth, Yingwana said, is that sex work is a legitimate form of work.

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