Bad Girls Dictionary – English-empower-Thai

The right to define, to create, to adapt words and language is often seen as the right of academics alone. They alone claim the right to invent terms like “indirect prostitute” and have it accepted even though the very people it refers to do not use, acknowledge or identify with the term in any way. As sex workers, we must be one of the most talked and written about groups in the world… but most of the words used about us have not come from us. We have our own vibrant living language and understanding of the terms used about us…