Marcia Fay Chapman – p. 53 in Freedom & Prostitution by Cassandra Troyan

Marcia Fay Chapman

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Created by: Cassandra Troyan

Date of Release: 2020

How to Access: Purchase the book

Publisher: The Elephants

Context: Marcia Fay Chapman was a mother of three and a Black street-based sex worker in Seattle. She was murdered by the Green River Killer–who specifically targeted street-based sex workers along Seattle’s Pacific Highway–in 1982. Her life and death is mentioned by Cassandra Troyan on page fifty-three of Troyan’s book of lyrical poetry about sex and abolition, entitled Freedom & Prostitution.

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