It’s really sad and telling of certain people in the sex workers rights movement that they’re talking about Racism in relation to Doras death and the recent spate of murders against trans women sex workers in Turkey
FYI, we’re talking about Turkish nationals being murdered by other Turkish nationals in Turkey. If I am misinformed please correct me but in the absence of a dominant racial group, I fail to see how these deaths are related to racism. Transphobia and transmisogyny, absolutely. Whorephobia, absolutely. But sex workers are murdered across the globe in every country on earth and the fact that some are PoC doesn’t mean their deaths are inherently linked to racism. I mean really.
It’s also worth noting that the people jumping up and down about this are white people.
I’ve seen a few that say it was a racist murder and make no mention of the transphobia. -E.C.