Black Women’s Experience in the Sex Trade: Film Showing and Discussion with Melanie Thompson

Melanie Thompson of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women will be showing and discussing “Can Oppression Be Liberation?” The film features Joyclyn, Melanie, and Castanita, three Black lived-experience experts of the sex trade of three generations, as they discuss the impact prostitution had on their lives. This film highlights issues of race, full decriminalization, the prison industrial complex, and prostitution as cyclical generational oppression.