EMPOWER: Perspectives of Sex Workers

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Giovanna Murillo Rincon
Giovanna Murillo Rincon

Aying
Aying

Mylène Juste
Mylène Juste

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    EMPOWER is a series of three portraits of sex workers with heterogeneous trajectories crossing paths of migration, Trans identities, feminism, the fight against HIV, the fight against precariousness and discrimination. Interweaving personal journeys, political analysis, and strategies of collective resistance, Aying, Giovanna Murillo Rincon, and Mylène Juste demand for the rights of minorities. Far from the objectification often at work in documentaries, EMPOWER is a tribute to the voices of sex workers through an active collaboration in production with the protagonists.

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    2018-01-01

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