Sex workers say they have been abused and spat at, yet many can’t access government support By Frankie Miren As everyone’s life is thrown into turmoil, it’s right to focus on those at the sharpest end of the pandemic chaos. But, in the glut of articles about sex workers and coronavirus, the reasons for […]
Pink News: Sex Work Must be Decriminalised to Help Women Thrown into ‘Hidden Crisis’ by Coronavirus “Hundreds of thousands of families in the UK rely on the income from sex work to survive, but sex workers have been excluded from the government’s emergency financial measures because sex workers are denied status as workers.”
A THREE-YEAR series of protests to support mothers and children targeted by poverty, child removal and domestic violence moved online today amid the coronavirus crisis.The monthly action, organised by the Support not Separation Coalition (SSC), had been taking place outside the Central Family Court in London, but saw thousands of online posts to make up […]
The English Collective of Prostitutes says Whitehall must step in to provide financial relief. Picture: English Collective of ProstitutesThe English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), based at the Crossroads Women’s Centre in Wolsey Mews, is calling on Whitehall to officially recognise sex workers as employees so they can receive financial aid, as the government has done […]
Sex work. Aside from healthcare, it’s the ultimate close contact service. And right now, many of its estimated 72,800 sex workers in the UK are particularly vulnerable to the physical and economic effects of the Covid crisis. With a UK lockdown in force, not only are thousands of sex workers being forced to choose between […]
by Sophie Hemery @SophieHemeryThe coronavirus pandemic has disrupted almost everyone’s work, in a way most of us had never experienced before. But as with any crisis, those who were already the most marginalised have been hit the hardest, and frequently face higher barriers to accessing any or adequate state support.Sex workers have been severely impacted by […]
Ray Filar Photo by Juno Mac/SWARM ‘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 […]
Pandemic ‘adds to an existing crisis’, campaigner saysMaya Oppenheim Women’s CorrespondentSex 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 with anyone who […]
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 British people […]
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 […]
