First newsmagazine for sex-workers
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Red Light Dispatch is India’s first newsmagazine for sex-workers, brought out exclusively by sex-workers from an office located within a brothel in Mumbai’s Kamathipura district. It was launched four months ago and is currently being distributed free amongst Indian sex-workers.
Covering a swathe of issues, the monthly carries first-person accounts of torture and harassment meted out to commercial sex-workers (many of whom were sold to brothels as children), poems and essays, book/film reviews, and articles on advocacy. Topics like sex-workers’ health, human and legal rights, and personal stories are also part of the magazine’s editorial agenda. Through these subjects, the magazine -- 1,000 copies of which are currently being printed -- is brought out in Hindi (Lal Batti Dastavez) and English. It hopes to offer an unfiltered glimpse into the life of one of India’s biggest brothels, the dark underbelly of pimps and abusive customers and the dreams of the sex-workers. The magazine’s reporters, often themselves sex-workers or their relatives, file their contributions after combing brothels in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and other smaller cities. In an exclusive interview, the magazine’s editor Anurag Chaturvedi talks about the challenges of bringing out this unique magazine. Read more. Source: Infochange |
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