All In A Day's (Sex) Work Blair Hopkins

Part Nine of our December 17th - International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers series. 

In August 2018 Donna Dalton-Castleberry was shot to death by a man pretending to be heading a prostitution sting. In an ironic twist, her killer was in fact a 30-year veteran of the Columbus, OH police department - one under investigation at the time for this exact scam. 



Resources: 



https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/former-vice-officer-charged-with-murder-for-on-duty-shooting-death-of-woman

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2020-01-30/trial-date-set-for-former-vice-officer-over-sex-charges

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/03/227045/donna-dalton-ohio-officer-charged-with-kidnapping-rape

http://www.mockingbirdpaper.com/content/24-year-old-donna-dalton-mother-2-killed-police-shooting-and-story-does-not-add

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2020/11/15/columbus-agreed-pay-1-million-family-slain-donna-castleberry/6266238002/

https://theappeal.org/family-of-donna-dalton-who-was-shot-by-a-columbus-police-officer-during-arrest-demands-independent-inquiry/



All In A Day's (Sex) Work is produced by Blair Hopkins and brought to you in part by SWOP-Behind Bars. Music by Andres Cantu and Jon Bjork. Special thanks as always to Alex Andrews and remember: All In A Day’s (Sex) Work is an ever-expanding narrative; if you are a sex worker, partner, patron, or other adult industry-adjacent person, I want to hear from you! Email me at info@ADSWProject.org.

Part Eight of our December 17th - International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers series. 

On September 27th, 2015 a 42 year old working mother went out on a call to see a client. Maxine Showers of Liverpool, England left for work and never came home. Her murder alleged he'd punched her when she tried to rob him, and that she left of her own accord. But the coroner's report would tell a very different story. 



Resources: 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-35970620

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-34441414

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/how-police-uncovered-maxine-showers-11165480

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/twin-sons-murdered-mum-never-11142295?_ga=2.1946929.1436223758.1607494503-233501463.1607494494

All In A Day's (Sex) Work is produced by Blair Hopkins and brought to you in part by SWOP-Behind Bars. Music by Farrell Wooten and Jon Bjork. Special thanks as always to Alex Andrews and remember: All In A Day’s (Sex) Work is an ever-expanding narrative; if you are a sex worker, partner, patron, or other adult industry-adjacent person, I want to hear from you! Email me at info@ADSWProject.org.

Part Seven of our December 17th - International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers series. Olympia Cerutti was stabbed to death in Daytona Beach, FL on September 22nd, 2017. Today I read a loving obituary text from a friend who illustrates in her tribute how trafficking survivors are too often painted into legal and socioeconomic corners that cost them their lives. 

Resources: 

https://www.osceolamemgds.com/obituaries/Olympia-Cerutti/
https://www.wftv.com/news/local/man-arrested-in-stabbing-death-of-volusia-county-mother-of-three/630940129/
https://www.newsdaytonabeach.com/stories/man-arrested-in-murder-of-woman-found-stabbed-at-daytona-beach-shores-hotel,3303
https://www.wesh.com/article/homicide-investigation-underway-at-daytona-beach-shores-hotel/12451474
All In A Day's (Sex) Work is produced by Blair Hopkins and brought to you in part by SWOP-Behind Bars. Music by Jakob Ahlbolm and Christian Andersen. Special thanks as always to Alex Andrews and remember: All In A Day’s (Sex) Work is an ever-expanding narrative; if you are a sex worker, partner, patron, or other adult industry-adjacent person, I want to hear from you! Email me at info@ADSWProject.org.

Part Six of our December 17th - International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers series. Donna Marie Gentile (August 22, 1962- June 23,1985) was a street-based sex worker recruited as a police corruption informant. After she delivered testimony against several officers with the San Diego Police Department, she was found murdered. Her killer or killers have never been identified. Today Anita DeFrancesco, Donna's cousin and the author of The Donna Gentile Story: The Life and Murder of an Innocent Runaway, joins me to tell her story. 

All In A Day's (Sex) Work is produced by Blair Hopkins and brought to you in part by SWOP-Behind Bars. Music by Jakob Ahlbolm and Christian Andersen. Special thanks as always to Alex Andrews and remember: All In A Day’s (Sex) Work is an ever-expanding narrative; if you are a sex worker, partner, patron, or other adult industry-adjacent person, I want to hear from you! Email me at info@ADSWProject.org.

Part Five of our December 17th - International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers series. Camila Díaz was murdered by police in San Salvador on January 31st, 2019. But her life wasn't just stolen by the thugs and bigots on the ground; the recently-deported asylum seeker was murdered also by the thugs and bigots in the Oval Office. 

Resources: 



https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-02-13/ice-deported-trans-asylum-seeker-she-was-killed-el-salvador

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/23/trans-asylum-seeker-killed-after-u-s-deportation-back-to-el-salvador.html

https://immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-files/no-content-type/2019-08/Asylum_Timeline_August2019.pdf

https://www.ebar.com/news/news//295705

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-violence/trans-asylum-seeker-killed-after-u-s-deportation-back-to-el-salvador-idUSKCN1QC03L

All In A Day's (Sex) Work is produced by Blair Hopkins and brought to you in part by SWOP-Behind Bars. Music by Ethan Sloane and Christian Anderson. Special thanks as always to Alex Andrews and remember: All In A Day’s (Sex) Work is an ever-expanding narrative; if you are a sex worker, partner, patron, or other adult industry-adjacent person, I want to hear from you! Email me at info@ADSWProject.org.

Part Four of our December 17th - International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers series. Tanya Moore and Tina Rodriguez were murdered in Philadelphia in 1986. We talk about the women's legacy, as well as the legacy of violence and difficulties forced exponentially upon trans women and trans sex workers of color. 



Resources: 



https://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/Meaningful%20Work-Full%20Report_FINAL_3.pdf

https://dec17philly.com/2017/12/01/we-remember-the-1986-murder-of-tanya-tina/

https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/1986/06/30/tanya-moore_philadelphia-pennsylvania-usa_f73e7866

https://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/Meaningful%20Work-Full%20Report_FINAL_3.pdf



All In A Day's (Sex) Work is produced by Blair Hopkins and brought to you in part by SWOP-Behind Bars. Music by Miles Avida and Wendell Scherer. Special thanks as always to Alex Andrews and remember: All In A Day’s (Sex) Work is an ever-expanding narrative; if you are a sex worker, partner, patron, or other adult industry-adjacent person, I want to hear from you! Email me at info@ADSWProject.org.