Understanding the complexities of sex work/trade and trafficking

In this companion zine to War on Terror & War on Trafficking, Emi Koyama, a former sex worker herself, criticizes mainstream anti-trafficking rhetoric that persecutes sex workers and instead outlines the complexities of the sex trade. Broken into short essays, she discusses sex work as a survival tactic, the push and pull factors that lead youth to the sex trade, the misrepresentation and unproductive prosecution of pimps, the invisibility of transgender youth in the sex trade and the ensuing consequences, the shut-down of the Occupy Portland movement, and how politicians create conditions that exacerbate the youth sex trade. This zine includes a glossary and a list of national resource groups that share her ideas about the sex industry. In the end, there are images of handout materials from sex trade resource programs such as SAVVY.