The Hawaii Prostitutes’ Strike: Melissa Ditmore – Podcast Episode 39:
A history lesson from the Red Umbrella Diaries podcast archive!
Episode 39 features Melissa Ditmore telling a story about the prostitutes’ strike in Hawaii in the 1940s. This piece was recorded during the International Sex Worker Rights Day event on March 3, 2011.
Melissa Ditmore has written and edited three books and numerous reports about sex work. For more about the history of sex work, check out her most recent book, Prostitution and Sex Work.