Moral High Ground

86 the Violence

Sex worker rights advocates gathered in Union Square at 2.30 pm today for a public art action in support of recommendation 86 which was recently accepted by the US government as part of the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Recommendation 86 requires the that US government ensure sex workers’ access to public services and actions to prevent violence and human rights abuses of sex workers.

We prepared for the event once we managed to placate an anxiously Parks and Recreations official that we would not be doing any public tattooing (????)) by symbolically gagging three activists. They then stood silently in perilously high heels for 86 minutes beginning at 3 pm.