Red Light Radio has been accused responding with “hostility, gaslighting and silencing in response to criticism fered in good faith” by Dance With Pride co-founder Axmed Maxamed and Jo Kali, who held a residency on Red Light Radio called The Tape Escape until September 2019.
Red Light Radio co-founder Hugo Van Heijningen has also been accused harassing Jo and Axmed at the station’s studio in Amsterdam.
Last month on January 19, Jo wrote on Twitter about her experience, saying that after her final The Tape Escape show Hugo asked to speak, and she requested to talk another time due to feeling anxious and needing to return to work. In response, she said Hugo cornered her three times and wouldn’t allow her to leave until the conversation took place.
Jo says the conversation that followed was Hugo telling Jo he is cancelling The Tape Escape residency and banning Jo from the Red Light Radio studio, citing a public criticism Jo made Red Light Radio in July about artwork that is disrespectful towards sex workers.
