Abstract
The #MeToo movement provides a powerful platform to collect and publicize the testimony of victims of sexual harassment and violence. It has provided a platform for formerly invisible victims of sexual assault, empowered women and young girls, and addressed persistent cultural blind spots about gendered violence. To date, #MeToo has supported white middle-class women, actresses, women of color, incarcerated women, female domestic workers, and female veterans. Yet #MeToo excludes accounts of sex workers, thereby implicitly discrediting their experiences of abuse and perpetuating the still widespread societal belief that prostitutes cannot be sexually harassed or raped since they are women who...
