“Although largely invisible to outsiders, this sharing of resources- including money, workspaces, and even clients - persists as a significant form of sex worker activism today.”

“Likewise, watembezi [street based] women in colonial-era Nairobi formed financial ties to one another, paying each other’s fines or bequeathing assets to one another when they died.”

“A journalist observed at the same time that ‘The ruling principle here is to share each other’s fortunes.. In hard times one family readily helps another, or several help one.’”

“In nineteenth-century Great Britain and Ireland, prostitutes created communities of mutual aid, sharing income and childcare.”

“Caring for each other is political work.“

“A speaker at the march declared, ‘Nearly every one of these women is a mother or has someone depending on her. They are driven into this life by economic conditions.. You don’t do any good by attacking us. Why don’t you attack those conditions?”

“In 1917, 200 prostitutes marched in San Francisco - in what has been called the ‘original Women’s March’ - to demand an end to brothel closures.”

“One prostitute (under the pseudonym Another Unfortunate) wrote to the Times of London in 1859 to state, ‘I conduct myself prudently, and defy you and your policemen too. Why stand you there mouthing with sleek face about morality? What is morality?’”

“In Medieval Europe, brothel workers formed guilds and occasionally engaged in strikes or street protests in response to crackdowns, workplace closures, or unacceptable working conditions.”