By popular demand, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz has uploaded the speech she gave at the Slutwalk Berlin march. She gave it on behalf of Hydra, Berlin’s sex worker organization, and in fact her speech was one of 3, representing 3 distinct sex worker voices. Bravo Liad!

«We are here because we’ve all been called sluts or treated as sluts. As sex workers, we have to deal with facing the stigmatization of being called a slut on a regular basis, simply because of our forms of employment.

Essentially, the word ‘slut’ emphasizes the divide-and-conquer policy that is made between good and bad women. In choosing to take on the word ‘slut’, we, as women, try to reclaim the word and erase its negative connotations as well as this division between good and bad women. Us sex workers are asking for a further examination into this good-women/bad-women division, as it attempts to divide us from the general populace of women – and we will not bow down to it.

The migrants amongst us are instantly divided into good and bad women – ‘good women’ are poor innocent victims who ‘fell’ into prostitution, and want to be ‘rescued’. ‘Bad women’ are those migrant sex workers who are self-determined agents of their lives who won’t be seen as victims, who don’t want to return to their countries of origin and are supposedly ‘taking jobs allotted for germans’. Our miniskirts and migrant bodies will not serve as a punching bag for your racist and classist divisions. We demand a right to stay for everyone.

Some of us are proud sluts, because we recognize the word ‘slut’ to mean a woman who does not submit to social rules through how she lives her life, and are proud of this freedom. and some of us do not want to be seen as sluts. We see what we do for a living as our job – and only a job – not a binding definition. Both of us demand to have society respect our choices of employment and treat them as such – work. We also both demand to have the social stigma against so-called ‘professional sluts’ or sex workers, be removed.

Some of us come from countries who’s economy suffered greatly from western capitalist exploits, from western companies coming to our non-western counties to use our cheap resources and cheap labor, to make porn movies to sell in the west and pay us pennies.

Hola a todxs,

Por fin tenemos los tres primeros trailers del proyecto «Palabras de Mujeres de la Revolución Egipcia» traducidos al castellano (gracias a Stafe). El proyecto pretende documentar la participación de las mujeres en la revolución como una forma de escribir Herstory combatiendo el olvido recurrente de la historia del papel de las mujeres. Es un proyecto independiente y copyleft que va a documentar estas historias para un tiempo de seis meses publicando dos videos a la semana y cubriendo varias ciudades y pueblos en Egipto.

Agradecemos la difusión y el apoyo al proyecto.
Para más información sobre el proyecto y las donaciones por favor visitad este link.

El primer trailer – Sanaa Seif (17 años), estudiante y participando en las acampadas de Tahrir y trabaja en un periódico independiente que hizo con un grupo de jóvenes. (disponible en inglés, francés, italiano, castellano, y alemán)
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El segundo trailer – Mona Hussein (50 años), madre de un detenido y ahora activista dentro de la campaña contra los juicios militares para civiles. (disponible en inglés, francés, italiano, castellano, y alemán)
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El tercer trailer – Hanan Sadek (52 años) refleja sobre su rol como madre durante la revolución y la relación con su hija de 17 años que estaba en Tahrir (disponible en inglés, italiano, y castellano)
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Ahora estamos preparando el cuarto trailer, y siguiendo las entrevistas con estas mujeres inspiradoras.

Solidaridad desde el Cairo,
Leil-Zahra Mortada
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