Arizona State University Professor Crystal Jackson condemned the “anti-trafficking movement” and “deviant framing” of “sex workers” during an event on campus last week.
During the “Queer X Faculty Flashtalks” event, Jackson told the students and staff in attendance that “Sex workers have been and are at the heart of queer liberation.”
“We wouldn’t have the modern-day LGBTQ plus movement in the U.S. … without sex-working trans people,” she said.
Jackson, who teaches women and gender studies, criticized society for viewing “transgender people and sex working people” as “deviant” and as “other, as non-normative, and as disposable.”
The professor also condemned the anti-trafficking movement. She said the practices put in place to combat human trafficking in the U.S. contribute to a surveillance system that disproportionately affects certain racial and gender groups.
