THE GUARDIAN: 'Culture is power': the Colombian sex workers who launched a newspaper →
In the streets of Bogotá’s infamous red light district, something new and colourful has begun appearing, pasted up between the graffiti on the walls.
Monica Quiroz, biting off strips of thick adhesive tape, is sticking up the laminated, fluorescent pages of this month’s edition of a newspaper written for and by local sex workers.
La Esquina was founded last year when a group of social activists and artists wanted to start a positive project in the neighbourhood. The paper is produced by a group of mainly transgender sex workers. Photograph: Nadège Mazars/Hans Lucas for the Guardian