11/20/2025
You won’t want to miss this!
A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of s*x workers to feminist struggle.
As long as feminism has existed as a movement in Brazil, s*x workers have taken to the streets in solidarity—despite the fact that mainstream feminist discourse positions s*x work, and the “putas” who enact it, as detrimental to women’s rights. In Putafeminista, activist and s*x worker Monique Prada calls for feminists to retire this hypocrisy and embrace putafeminism: a working class women’s movement that rejects whorephobia and its classist, colonial dimensions.
Drawing on her firsthand experiences with s*x work and movement building, Prada argues for the validity of s*x work as feminist labor and tracks the innovations introduced by Brazilian s*x workers to feminist internet discourse, street actions, and governmental advocacy. For readers seeking the glimmers of tomorrow’s feminism, Prada places that future with putafeminists, naming the brothel a “final frontier” for all women to gather, reform, and revolt.
Join us: November 27th at 2:00 pm, online via Zoom.
Find the zoom link in our bio under “Feminist Research Speakers Series”.
