Ayanda Denge
Ayanda Denge | |
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| Born | Ayande Dange 1982 Port Elizabeth in South Africa |
| Died | 24 March 2019 (aged 36–37) |
| Cause of death | murdered |
| Citizenship | South Africa |
| Organization(s) | Embrace Dignity,
Reclaim The City, Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), Sisonke Sex Worker Movement (Sisonke), TB/HIV CARE Association, SistazHood Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work, Women's Legal Centre (WLC) |
| Movement | Anti-prostitution feminism, Trans rights movement, HIV/AIDS activism, and housing activism |
Ayanda Denge (1982 – 24 March 2019) was a South African trans woman, HIV and cancer survivor, and child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking survivor. She advocated for the right to housing, transgender rights and for the rights of people (mostly women) who had survived sex trafficking.
Although she had earlier worked with sex worker–rights organisations such as the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), Denge later became associated with abolitionist positions and joined the South African feminist organisation Embrace Dignity, which campaigns for the abolition of prostitution and sex trafficking under the “Equality Model”.