'They've been punching up the picket line with costumes, theme nights, dance parties, and karaoke.'
— COYOTE — the first sex workers’ rights organization in U.S. history, she and co-organizers like Gloria Lockett sought to provide legal support to sex workers targeted by gendered solicitation laws and to fight the multiple layers of oppression that Black sex workers faced.as the Exotic Dancers Alliance , the worker-organizers had to deal with disrespect and stigma at the bargaining table — from their so-called union brothers.
As Selena, a striking Star Garden dancer, tells me, racial discrimination and colorism remain rampant within the industry, and one of their union goals is to put a stop to it. “As a Mexican woman that is finally able to use her voice, I refuse for us to go under further discriminations on top of the ones we already do, as well as Black folks,” she explains.
The Star Garden dancers say they haven’t heard a peep from management in response to their petition to form a union, and the dancers are still holding the line outside the club. But they have the benefit of a not-so-secret weapon in Crane: The Strippers United founder is a former member-organizer of the Lusty Lady’s Local 790 and brings her decades of experience as an organizer, stripper, and sex worker to the fight.
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