A group of survivor leaders in California are demanding justice through AB 379, a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to loiter with the intent to buy sex. Their advocacy marks a powerful push to shift accountability onto buyers and protect those exploited in the sex trade.

“We survived the buyers who raped and abused us, insulted us, filmed us, and discarded us like garbage. Now we are surviving a political process that threatens to discard us yet again.”