Rethinking 'sex work': Why the victim narrative hurts more than it helps
WHEN the government forcefully evicted sex workers from the brothels of Tanbazar, Narayanganj, in 1999, they did so under the guise of 鈥榬ehabilitation鈥�, claiming it was to rescue women from violence and exploitation. But for those of us who stood witness, it felt like a cruel betrayal masked as benevolence. I was an undergraduate student of anthropology then 鈥� young..