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Embodied Radio Show Awards Excerpt: "No More Vigils: The Call For Sex Worker Protection In The Wake Of Atlanta Shootings"

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Published February 11, 2022 at 4:50 PM EST

Embodied is a weekly radio show hosted by journalist Anita Rao that explores sex, relationships and health.

Host Anita Rao talks with Dia Dynasty, a Chinese-American professional dominatrix and Elizabeth Nolan Brown, a sex and technology journalist, about the Atlanta spa shootings and the implications they have for Asian American sex workers and the industry as a whole. This interview was recorded live on March 26, 2021.

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