Putafeminista: A Manifesto

A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of sex workers to feminist struggle

Putafeminista argues for a framework that Brazilian sex worker and activist Monique Prada calls “putafeminism”—a “movement born from the idea,” she writes, “that we, all people in sex work, can also constitute feminism.” Putafeminism, Prada argues, is also a chance to rethink the structure of sex work, to “identify and combat the existent oppression within.” Drawing on her firsthand experiences with...