--- title: Janet Mock Wants Sex Workers Rights at Women's March description: Find out why Janet Mock thinks sex workers' rights need to be included in the Women's March on Washington manifesto. canonical: https://time.com/4640713/janet-mock-womens-rights-march/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-20T16:12:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:27.467Z og:title: Janet Mock Advocates for Sex Workers’ Rights in Women's March og:description: 'I know sex work to be work’ og:url: https://time.com/4640713/janet-mock-womens-rights-march/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe26f71bca7b4c12/6988b65697cdffde686af2c8/janet-mock-womens-march-sex-workers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4896 og:image:height: 2754 og:image:alt: "The Trans List" New York Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Janet Mock Advocates for Sex Workers’ Rights in Women's March twitter:description: 'I know sex work to be work’ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe26f71bca7b4c12/6988b65697cdffde686af2c8/janet-mock-womens-march-sex-workers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Janet Mock Thinks Sex Workers’ Rights Need to Be Included in the Women's March > Sponsored content. 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Writer Janet Mock attends "The Trans List" New York Premiere at The Paley Center for Media on November 17, 2016 in New York City. Roy Rochlin—Getty Images by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Jan 20, 2017 4:12 PM UTC As protestors begin to gather for [Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington](http://motto.time.com/4639192/womens-march-washington-speakers/), the movement’s [inclusivity](http://motto.time.com/4631603/race-womens-march-washington/?iid=sr-link4) is being called into question. Some marchers want to make it clear that the protest stands for women from all walks of life, which is why [Janet Mock](http://motto.time.com/4567355/female-writers-election-2016/) took the time to write about the importance of including [sex workers](http://time.com/3992788/amnesty-international-decriminalizing-sex-work/). Mock says that when the Women’s March team wrote their manifesto, she personally added the line, “…and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements.” “It is not a statement that is controversial to me,” Mock [said in a Tumblr post](http://janetmock.tumblr.com/post/156017232338/womens-march-sex-worker-inclusion). “As a trans woman of color who grew up in low-income communities and who advocates, resists, dreams and writes alongside these communities, I know that underground economies are essential parts of the lived realities of women and folk. I know sex work to be work.” But sex workers aren’t always part of the feminist rhetoric. “I reject the continual erasure of sex workers from our feminisms because we continue to conflate sex work with the brutal reality of coercion and trafficking,” Mock said. “I reject the policing within and outside women’s movements that shames, scapegoats, rejects, erases and shuns sex workers.” She finished: “I hope every sex worker who has felt shamed by this momentarily erasure shows up to their local March and holds the collective accountable to our vast, diverse, complicated realities.” \[h/t [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/janet-mock-sex-workers-rights-must-be-part-of-the-womens-march%5Fus%5F587f798ae4b01cdc64c8a16d)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4640713/janet-mock-womens-rights-march/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4640713/janet-mock-womens-rights-march/"},"headline":"Janet Mock Thinks Sex Workers’ Rights Need to Be Included in the Women's March","datePublished":"2017-01-20T16:12:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:27.467Z","description":"'I know sex work to be work’","url":"https://time.com/4640713/janet-mock-womens-rights-march/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe26f71bca7b4c12/6988b65697cdffde686af2c8/janet-mock-womens-march-sex-workers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe26f71bca7b4c12/6988b65697cdffde686af2c8/janet-mock-womens-march-sex-workers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"The Trans List\" New York Premiere","caption":"Writer Janet Mock attends \"The Trans List\" New York Premiere at The Paley Center for Media on November 17, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Roy Rochlin—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4640713/janet-mock-womens-rights-march/","name":"Janet Mock Thinks Sex Workers’ Rights Need to Be Included in the Women's March"}}]}] ```