ldquo;In the beginning I sent money Full article home to my younger sister and brother, but then I started with crack . The drugs messed everything up. Soon I was on the streets in Hillbrow, and things got worse. Then I tested positive for HIV. I got sick and nearly died. I decided to get ARVs and get off crack. So far I have managed to stay off the drugs, although I still smoke dagga. I tried to do normal work, but I could only find work as a cleaner and couldnrsquo;t even earn R3 000 a month. It was the largest sex workers’ rights demonstration Kaytlin Bailey, director of communications for Decriminalize Sex Work, had ever seen: “There were hundreds of people there instead of dozens,” she recalled. “Just to see the energy and the mass of people coming together in public space to declare themselves either out as sex workers or as their allies felt like a transformative moment. And it was caused, I think, by the immediate impact of FOSTA/SESTA.”