309. India Thusi on Sex Work, Critical Race Theory, and Moral Progress
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Shermer and Thusi discuss: how she gained access to police and sex workers in Johannesburg \\u2022 what it was like patrolling brothels in Johannesburg \\u2022 what sex work is, exactly (street-based, brothel-based, escort services, private, dance hall, and hotel sex work) \\u2022 why sex workers are mostly women and patrons mostly men \\u2022 why sex work is illegal in many places and whether it should be legal and regulated like any other trade \\u2022 the liminal nature of sex work (mostly illegal, mostly goes on anyway, difficult to police) \\u2022 Critical Race Theory \\u2022 racism and antiracism \\u2022 President Barack Obama \\u2022 her response to Shelby Steele and Jason Hill\\u2019s \\u201cpull yourself up by your bootstraps\\u201d philosophy \\u2022 why we are not living in a post-racial society (yet) and why race matters (still).
India Thusi is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law with a joint appointment at the Kinsey Institute. Her research examines racial and sexual hierarchies as they relate to policing, race, and gender. Her articles and essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, NYU Law Review, Northwestern Law Review (twice), Georgetown Law Journal, Cornell Law Review Online, amongst others. She has worked at the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and \\u2014 most recently \\u2014 The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab that collaborates to effect lasting policy and culture change. She served as a federal law clerk to two social justice giants: the Honorable Robert L. Carter, who sat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was the lead counsel for the NAACP in Brown v. Board of Education; and the Honorable Damon J. Keith, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and is lauded for his prominent civil rights jurisprudence. She also clerked for Justice van der Westhuizen at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the country\\u2019s highest court. She was recognized as a Top 40 Rising Young Lawyer by the American Bar Association in 2019. Her book is Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg.
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