Butterfly: Migrant Sex Worker Rights

Meet Elene Lam, the founder and executive director of Butterfly, an
Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network. The tragic deaths of
six Asian women in Atlanta have highlighted the intersectional
reasons why they were targeted and killed. Perceived as foreigner
persons, migrants engaging in immoral and illegal work, fetishized
women, and those contributing to the spread of the coronavirus,
Butterfly advocates for the full decriminalization of sex work, for
full status for migrant sex workers, for immigration laws to allow
sex work to be recognized as work, and for no cops at workplaces,
among other calls to action. Listen to Elene explain why her
organization is part of an alliance of 25 sex worker organizations
bringing a Charter challenge to the criminal laws affecting sex
work, among other legal reforms.