Report: How We Won: The Stripper Who Took Her Club Boss to Court
Stacey Clare
A stripper, with the help of her union, made history by achieving a landmark ruling that saw her legally recognised as a worker. Stacey Clare reports.
Tag: sex work
Report: Out of Work and Unsupported, Sex Workers Struggle to Cope With the Coronavirus Crisis
Sophie K Rosa
Workers who are already marginalised, stigmatised and sometimes criminalised are the most vulnerable to disasters. While sex workers are organising to support each other through the Covid-19 pandemic, campaigners are demanding the government does more to help them. Sophie K Rosa reports.
The Lockdown: Safety First: Sex Work and the Criminal Justice System
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann talk to Elio Beale, organiser with SWARM, a sex worker rights and advocacy movement.
The World Transformed Showed How Much the Labour Party Has to Learn About Feminism
Sophie K Rosa
Political festival The World Transformed put feminism front and centre, showing how it is essential to a meaningful left politics. But the Labour Party failed to listen to activists by not showing solidarity with trans people or sex workers.
Strippers Take Aim at Women’s Equality Party Over ‘Sting’ Operation
Sophie Hemery
Anti-strip club campaigners linked to the Women’s Equality party allegedly paid private investigators, including two former police officers, to pose as customers in strip clubs and film dancers without their consent.
The UK Government Risks Facilitating a Porn Monopoly
Freya Pratty
The government’s new Digital Economy Act means that adult content sites will have to install age verification software in a move which risks pricing independent sex workers out of the internet and onto the street.
Sidelined No Longer, Sex Workers Led the Women’s Strike
Sophie K Rosa
At the heart of a feminism for all, the push for sex worker rights is a movement in which women who experience intersecting oppression and who have been marginalised by mainstream feminism are fighting back and winning.
Labour Must Not Contribute to the Oppression of Sex Workers. We Need Decriminalisation Now
Lydia Caradonna
Sex work law is literally a life or death situation. A new campaign demands Labour acknowledge – as Amnesty International, the World Health Organisation, and the United Nations have acknowledged – that decriminalisation is the safest legal model for sex workers.
How Anti-Sex Work Legislation Bolsters the Racist State
Ava Caradonna
Sexual violence is not just a 'foreign' problem of traffickers and grooming gangs - and cracking down on sex worker rights doesn't protect anyone from exploitation.
5 Reasons We Must Decriminalise the Sex Industry – And Fast
Laura Connelly
In recent weeks, the establishment media has provided a large platform to anti-prostitution feminists. Yet as sex worker-led organisations tell us time and again, it's only through decriminalising all consensual aspects of the sex industry that sex workers can be adequately protected.
Long Read: Playing the Whore: Police Work vs Sex Work
Melissa Gira Grant
The violence and prurience characterising police attitudes towards sex workers reveal that efforts to curtail prostitution aren't about charity, or about 'rescuing' workers from situations of dire need. They are about control.
Sex? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On KilljoyFM Ray Filar is joined by Bridget Minamore, Lexi Turner and Max Disgrace to discuss the politics of sex, consent, SRE in schools, sexual radicalism and more.
Sex Work, Unpaid Labour, and the Strike
Margaret Corvid
Capitalism relies on the reproductive, often unpaid, labour women perform every day, including sex work. By withdrawing this labour on Wednesday the Women's Strikers were not just challenging sexism, but capitalism itself.
Novara FM: Reclaiming Feminism: Sex, Work & Womanhood
Eleanor Penny & Ash Sarkar are joined by Lola Okolosie and Juno Mac to discuss the failings of liberal feminism, and how to build a more radical movement that centres the lives of marginalised women.
Sex Work: Decriminalisation, Policing and Fighting for a Better Future
Eleanor Penny talks to a range of sex workers and sex work advocates to discuss how different legal models affect workers and what additional measures are needed to ensure their safety and wellbeing.
Novara FM: Trans feminisms: Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack
On this week's show James Butler is joined by Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack as they discuss trans- and sex worker-inclusive feminisms.
Novara FM: Sex Work Is Work
On this week's show James Butler is joined by writer and journalist Melissa Gira.