Bloomberg is busy backtracking on the ways he’s spoken about and to women in the past—including the time he got that teacher fired
, Petro remembers when she, a woman herself, came under Bloomberg’s attack, which helped get her fired:
“‘We’re just not going to have this woman in front of a class,’ Bloomberg was quoted as saying by the New York Daily News. This was the beginning and the end. Bloomberg and I never met. He never commented further on my situation. He decided my fate, and that was that,” Petro wrote. Petro, now a freelance writer, was fired after writing an essay about her career as a sex worker, which was
published in Huffington Post three years after she had last done sex work, long before she became a teacher. In herpiece, she says that as a political leader, Bloomberg should have acknowledged her first amendment right to publish the essay and keep her governmental job. But now, as a sex workers’ rights advocate, she’s cautiously optimistic about candidates Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang both making statements suggesting that they might decriminalize sex work as president. In the ten years since she was fired, Petro hasn’t seen as much acknowledgment for sex work as a woman’s rights issue as she’d like, though she is cautiously hopeful: “Hearing candidates stake their positions on the issue, however imperfectly, makes me cautiously optimistic.
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