8LIVES VIGIL
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We are nearing the one-year anniversary of the tragic spa shootings that occurred in the Atlanta area in March 2021. Red Canary Song, in collaboration with Asian American Feminist Collective and CSGC/ NYU, will be hosting a live memorial vigil for the eight lives lost in Washington Square Park on March 16th from 11am-1pm. Our event will consist of speakers, music, and an art memorial, created by Asian and migrant body care workers.
We are inviting our coalition of sex worker rights, abolitionist, labor organizers, and allies to mourn and stand strong with us. Please check our social media for updates for the live event. Streaming access, captions, ASL & language interpreter lines (Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Pilipino) will be available. We are striving to make this event accessible to everyone. CoVid safety protocols will be expected and enforced.
Red Canary Song is a grassroots collective of APIA and Asian migrant sex workers, massage workers, and allies basebuilding in Flushing through mutual aid and community care, forming coalitions with sex worker rights and abolitionist orgs transnationally. RCS formed in 2017 in response to the death of a Chinese migrant massage worker, Yang Song, who fell from a four story building during a police raid. Working with Butterfly (Toronto) and MPoP (Seattle), we aim to empower Asian migrant massage workers with tenants of decriminalizing sex work and respecting all forms of labor.
Body care work is sacred and dignified work, whether erotic services are offered or not. The history of American discriminatory policies that targeted Asian immigrants, especially women, along with the white military imperialism in the Eastern and Southern countries has directly influenced the ongoing fetishization, dehumanization, and violence towards Asian and other BIWOC, including LGBTQ and nonbinary peoples.
Organizations invited include:
Sex Workers Project NYC
Butterfly (Toronto)
MPOP (Seattle)
Scarlet Cha Cha (Korea)
Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo
BIPOC AIC
Black Trans Nation
Flushing Workers Center
MinKwon Center of Flushing
More information will be updated on our website and social media soon.
We are inviting our coalition of sex worker rights, abolitionist, labor organizers, and allies to mourn and stand strong with us. Please check our social media for updates for the live event. Streaming access, captions, ASL & language interpreter lines (Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Pilipino) will be available. We are striving to make this event accessible to everyone. CoVid safety protocols will be expected and enforced.
Red Canary Song is a grassroots collective of APIA and Asian migrant sex workers, massage workers, and allies basebuilding in Flushing through mutual aid and community care, forming coalitions with sex worker rights and abolitionist orgs transnationally. RCS formed in 2017 in response to the death of a Chinese migrant massage worker, Yang Song, who fell from a four story building during a police raid. Working with Butterfly (Toronto) and MPoP (Seattle), we aim to empower Asian migrant massage workers with tenants of decriminalizing sex work and respecting all forms of labor.
Body care work is sacred and dignified work, whether erotic services are offered or not. The history of American discriminatory policies that targeted Asian immigrants, especially women, along with the white military imperialism in the Eastern and Southern countries has directly influenced the ongoing fetishization, dehumanization, and violence towards Asian and other BIWOC, including LGBTQ and nonbinary peoples.
Organizations invited include:
Sex Workers Project NYC
Butterfly (Toronto)
MPOP (Seattle)
Scarlet Cha Cha (Korea)
Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo
BIPOC AIC
Black Trans Nation
Flushing Workers Center
MinKwon Center of Flushing
More information will be updated on our website and social media soon.
Organizer
Red CanarySong
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY
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