Ray Filar ‘Sex workers are the original feminists’, say Juno Mac and Molly Smith in Revolting Prostitutes. It’s an incendiary claim–not least because tracking ‘firsts’ is a fraught pursuit–but it might well be true. Mac and Smith point toward the medieval brothel workers who formed guilds and went on strike; the 15th century Bavarian […]
Pandemic ‘adds to an existing crisis’, campaigner says Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent Sex workers are being left penniless and face being made homeless as they struggle for income during the coronavirus outbreak, campaigners have said. The government has brought in strict lockdown measures to limit the spread of the virus, with people told to remain at home and avoid contact […]
An English Collective of Prostitutes banner at the sex workers strike on International Women’s Day 2020 calling for the full decriminalisation of sex work. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images) The coronavirus pandemic has thrown sex workers into a “hidden crisis” that means sex work must immediately be decriminalised, the English Collective of Prostitutes has said. Millions of […]
SEX WORKERS are demanding emergency funds from the government, warning that the loss of income caused by the coronavirus crisis could reduce many of them to destitution.The English Collective of Prostitutes, based in north London, has made an urgent call for sex workers to be entitled to the same financial support as others hit by […]
The English Collective of Prostitutes, based in London, want the government to recognise thousands of sex workers across the country as employees affected by coronavirusSex workers are demanding a bailout from the government after seeing their income plummet because of the coronavirus crisis.The English Collective of Prostitutes, based in Kentish Town, London, want the government to recognise […]
The English Collective of Prostitutes, based in Kentish Town, in London, have demanded worker status for thousands of sex workers across the countrySex workers are demanding bailouts from the government after their income plunged amid the coronavirus crisis.The English Collective of Prostitutes, based in Kentish Town, in London, have demanded worker status for thousands of […]
The coronavirus has thrown millions of people into crisis. For sex workers, forced by criminalisation, stigma and discrimination to live in the shadows, that crisis is more hidden. Much sex work involves personal contact – exactly what we are being warned against if the virus is to be contained. The virus comes on top of […]
The posters appeared on London’s underground over the weekend, which saw a sex workers strike on International Women’s Day. (Twitter/pastachips)An adhacking campaign advocating sex work decriminalisation has appeared on the London Undergound – to viral results.The new posters, which appeared during the London-wide sex worker’s strike on International Women’s Day, call for sex work to be […]
By Anna Freeman Brexit is not only screwing the Great British pound and the price of Tesco’s Finest Prosecco – it’s screwing sex workers, too. A huge number of women selling sexual services in the UK hail from the EU-28 (43 percent of non-British sex workers in 2009 were EU nationals, according to a TAMPEP study). […]
On International Women’s Day 2020, sex workers and allies gathered in Soho to protest for decriminalisation. By Jake Hall; photos by Zeinab Batchelor In today’s world of corporate feminism and #girlboss tees, it’s easy to lose sight of what International Women’s Day actually represents. That was not the case in Soho on Sunday, where the streets were filled […]
