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Beneath the Red Umbrella blends academic research with the intimacy of storytelling in a genre-crossing graphic novel. At the heart of the story are three university students, Selina, Jaz, and Julie, whose evolving friendship unfolds over the course of an academic year. Through honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversations, they confront misconceptions and injustices faced by those providing sexual services.
As the friends learn from each other, readers are drawn into a conversation about solidarity, justice, and the responsibilities of researchers. Interwoven with the narrative are two powerful academic arguments: first, that scholars working with marginalized communities - such as sex workers - must collaborate with them by supporting their goals and contributing to their empowerment; second, that the everyday injustices faced by sex workers are rooted in deeper epistemic and structural stigmas that frame them as "social deviants."
Combining storytelling with a critique of stigma, criminalization, and institutional neglect, Beneath the Red Umbrella makes a case for the decriminalization and destigmatization of sex work and offers a model for how we can have difficult but necessary conversations about the demands of justice and human rights.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Text Boxes
Prologue
Comic Strip: "What is sex work? On a late summer day, Selina, Jaz, and Julie start a conversation..."
Chapter One: Sex and Solidarity
Comic Strip: "Hey, who are the experts anyway? Selina and Julie discuss..."
Chapter Two: A Methodology for Political Solidarity
Chapter Three: Surface Explorations - Everyday Injustice
Chapter Four: Digging Deeper - Injustice at the Bedrock
Chapter Five: Ontological and Epistemic Injustices Illustrated
Chapter Six: Toward Justice and Liberation - Sex Workers as Governance Actors
Comic Strip: "It's June, and time to celebrate at the Red Umbrella March - Selina, Jaz, Julie, Kerry, Genevieve, and the whole crew put their T-shirts on and get on out there!"
Chapter Seven: Sex and Solidarity, Justice and Liberation
Comic Strip: "Hey! The future is decriminalized and destigmatized: justice, empowerment, and liberation for all!"
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