Event: Launch of Some Mother’s Daughter – The hidden movement of prostitute women against violence

You are invited to the launch of a new book by the International Prostitutes Collective

Some Mother’s Daughter – The hidden movement of prostitute women against violence

 “I wish Some Mother’s Daughter had been around when I was researching for Band of Gold, it would’ve made life a lot easier and a hell of a lot safer . . . ” Kay Mellor

Tuesday 9 November  6.30pm  Owl Bookshop

209-211 Kentish Town Road, London NW5  ALL WELCOME

For information contact Cari Mitchell Tel: 0171 482 2496  Fax: 0171 209 4761

The following will attend and are available for interview:

• Theresa Hulme, who is pressing for justice for her daughter Julie, murdered on the streets of Manchester while working to support her children.
• Kay Mellor, creator of Band of Gold, the award-winning TV series: “Some Mother’s Daughter is a clear, concise, fascinating yet disturbing account of how things really are for women who work as prostitutes. It makes a clear and comprehensive case that until the authorities and power that be, change their attitude and begin to value all women’s lives irrespective of how they earn a living, no woman can expect justice or social change.”
• Margaret Prescod, Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, Los Angeles, USA. Protested police inaction and racism in the investigation of murders of women in the Black community.
• Ruth Todasco, No Bad Women Just Bad Laws Coalition, Oklahoma, USA.

Prostitute women are among the most vulnerable to violence.  That violence is built into the law and its enforcement as this book shows.  In self-protection, prostitute women (and often their mothers and sisters) have given leadership to the women’s movement against rape, trafficking and other violence. 

As the British government conducts a review of sexual offences such as rape to “protect individuals, especially children and the most vulnerable, from abuse and exploitation; enable abusers to be appropriately punished; and be fair and non-discriminatory”, prostitute women in both the US and the UK publish their proposals to make all women safer. 

A chronology of prostitutes’ resistance provides a connecting thread for this compilation of personal stories, interviews, articles, leaflets, letters and speeches, enhanced by the results of a major survey.