And So, All right. So this is a special episode. This is the first episode that I Jen

I'm kind of hosting myself and we have two amazing guests today who work with a firm.

So would you all like to introduce yourselves and maybe talk a little bit about the organization?

Hey, my name is Esperanza. I am a member of the Trans National Feminist

Organization Affirm. I am a transgender survivor of the sex trade. I am a revolutionary communist, a

proletarian feminist, and I am really excited to be here and you know speaking with

you both. Hell yeah that's a powerful intro. Yeah I'm going to sound like dishwater

compared to that. So my name is Para Habola Corolla. I am the co-founder of Affirm Hawaii and I am also the director of the

director of the Hawaii State Commission on the status of women, which basically makes me deep state sort of,

ish, but, yeah, I'm just glad to hold down this space for anti-imperialist feminists in the work that I do.

Awesome. Thank you both so much.

This gathering today or this podcast today has been in the works for a minute.

It kind of started when comrades in the Red Nation read your peace Esperanza talking about expansion of the sex trade and how you know these

very neoliberal ideas about the sex trade are kind of like seeping into radical spaces and even being taken up as radical ideas and

so I'm the co-founder of the Public Feminist Caucus within the Red Nation and we realize that

we absolutely need to have a stance on sex work and the sex trade

because it hadn't been discussed too much in Red Nation and especially not in the we're revolutionary socialism, which we are.

We're revolutionary socialists and we're queer indigenous feminists.

And so the Pueblo Feminist Caucus found it necessary

to develop this position around the sex trade.

And it was through organizations like a firm that we started to think more critically about

our politics and devote ourselves to studying.

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