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Many workers are facing an uncertain future, or an immediate financial struggle, due to the coronavirus outbreak. And for one industry, the impact has been unavoidable. “We are in a lot of trouble,” Cari Mitchell, a spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) tells Euronews. “Because sex work is a contact job.” The ECP, […]
Some sex workers still see clients to make ends meet, while charities report rise in suicide attempts Sex workers in “dire and desperate” circumstances across the UK are continuing to see clients during the lockdown, potentially exposing themselves and others to coronavirus, according to charities and sex worker organisations. “We are facing a massive crisis,” […]
Written by Vic ParsonsQueer ally Dua Lipa, not content with saving everyone stuck at home because of coronavirus by releasing Future Nostalgia early, has now rallied behind sex workers.Future Nostalgia had already leaked online when Dua Lipa posted a tearful Instagram Live video, saying she was releasing it early and hoped it would make people […]
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 sex […]
The Guardian: UK sex workers in “dire and desperate” need amid coronavirus lockdown “As the bills come in I stack them up on a shelf and try to forget about them. I spend my whole day anxious. There is no let-up. I have the worry of the children, the worry of my mother who is […]
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 […]