Sex work, a consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for compensation, has existed across human history.
Around the world, advocates are working to reframe it not as a moral debate but an issue involving labor rights, public health and social justice. Yet in reality, sex workers — primarily women, transgender people and people of color — still face discrimination, exploitation, harassment and abuse from law enforcement.
The Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, ACT 4 SA and The Pride Center SA are joining forces to present a San Antonio screening of Sex Work: It’s Just a Job, a 56-minute documentary by Hunter College professor, filmmaker and activist Tami Kashia Gold.
The film shifts the conversation around the profession to focus on issues of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia that drive law enforcement to target and exploit sex workers. The goal is to explore the decriminalization of sex work, to reframe sex work as a social justice issue and create a safe space for sex workers to organize in San Antonio.
A community conversation with community leaders, activists and former sex workers will follow.
Free, 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Ave., (210) 228-0201, esperanzacenter.org.
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This article appears in Aug 7-20, 2025.