Beneath the Red Umbrella: Comic Strips as Expressions of Solidarity with Sex Workers

  • Knowledge Mobilization
  • Social Change

Beneath the Red Umbrella: Comic Strips as Expressions of Solidarity with Sex Workers

Sex workers face stigma and discrimination that contributes to experiences of gender-based violence and produces barriers to support-seeking for survivors of gender-based violence. As such, there is a need to advance nuanced and accurate knowledge about sex work to counter false narratives that stigmatize sex workers and criminalize the sex industry. In this Brief, we examine expressions of solidarity in work to end gender-based violence against sex workers through comic strips.