Red Flags: Do My Violent Kinks Make Me Less of a Feminist?
Sophie K Rosa
In this month’s instalment of Red Flags, Sophie K Rosa doesn’t sugar-coat her advice to a reader unsettled by her desire to submit to her boyfriend.
Tag: sex workers
Report: ‘I’ll Have to Leave Edinburgh’: Sex Workers’ Fears After the City Bans Strip Clubs
Polly Smythe
Edinburgh city council has imposed a ‘nil-cap’ policy on strip clubs, effectively banning them in the city. Polly Smythe spoke to sex workers about the impact the ban will have on their lives.
Opinion: The Police Are the Domestic Abusers of the Nation
Shanice McBean
When the Met are searching a quarter of Black boys, it’s time to admit that they are abusing us en masse, writes Shanice McBean.
Novara FM: Sex Sells
The left often defends sex workers, but how often do we defend sex work? Women from the Queer Whore Collective speak to Rivkah Brown.
Novara Live: Dominic Raab Facing Calls to Resign
As Kabul fell, Dominic Raab lay under a gazebo at a luxury hotel. It’s just one example of the callousness of Britain’s Tory government when it comes to Afghan refugees.
Novara Live: Tory Sleaze Row Gathers Pace
Keir Starmer has called on the PM to launch a full inquiry into Greensill and said "sleaze is now at heart of this Tory government". Will the allegations stick?
Report: Sex Workers Denounce Instagram’s ‘Puritanical’ New Rules
Sophie K Rosa
As Instagram announces its updated terms of use, sex workers argue the restrictive new rules are designed to eject their already stigmatised and marginalised community from the platform, threatening their income and safety in the process. Sophie K Rosa reports.
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.
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.
5 Reasons Feminists in Leeds Are Striking on 8 March
Luke Dukinfield
Wrenched from its radical roots in the struggles of working class women, International Women’s Day has been increasingly defanged in the name of corporate interest. Luke Dukinfield makes the case for reclaiming it.