Please join Red Canary Song and CSSJ’s Human Trafficking Research Cluster in celebrating the premiere of Fly in Power, a documentary film centering the issues of Asian migrant massage and sex workers. Watch the Fly in Power trailer

Fly in Power follows Charlotte, a Korean massage worker and core organizer of Red Canary Song. Through her story, we learn how the incarceration system is pitted against Asian migrant women and their survival. Other RCS members, including Khokhoi, a young body worker, and Prof Elena Shih, Brown University, share powerful insights that debunk the myths of sex trafficking. Fly in Power is a glimpse into the intimate spaces that not only connect these workers, but is also a testament to the global advocacy of women’s rights to work and thrive. This is the first film to center the narrative of an Asian massage worker in her own words, with her own agency of storytelling and editing. The intention of Fly in Power is to honor their practices of care, autonomy, and survival and to raise awareness of the oppressive systems that face us all.

Dinner & Conversations with the Fly in Power team: Yoon Grace Ra, hang/xenai Pham, Prof Elena Shih, Yin Q

*This film has been produced entirely by women, non-binary, trans and queers of the Asian diaspora- more than half of the production team are former/current sex workers.