Well, my next post was going to be the umbrella and politics, and it is, just not the one I was going to use. Will save that one for a rainy day. This one is better. I will see if I can find some root for this, but the critical point as made by The Londonist is that the red umbrella has become the symbol of British sex workers.
It's against the Policing and Crime Bill which it is feared will further criminalise them and their clients. The protest is organised by xtalk who run free English classes for migrant sex workers. Participants, whether strippers, escorts, working girls, maids, models, city brokers or Londonist readers are encouraged to bring a red umbrella and meet at that most potent of misunderstood London sex symbols, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, at 2pm on Tuesday 31st March.
Well, that was easy. Here is the "official word" on "Why Red Umbrellas?":
And taking this back one more step, according to an article by Pye Jakobson and Petra Timmermans "The Red Umbrella, originally used by sex workers demonstrating in Venice, Italy, is a 'symbol of beauty and resistance to humans' and sky's attacks, red'."The red umbrella is a symbol of the international sex workers’ rights movement (see www.sexworkeurope.org). It symbolises both the literal shelter needed if working on the street, and demonstrates our solidarity with all sex workers who are frequently marginalised and excluded, both from their communities and from the debates about our industry.
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