Sex Work 2022

■組織

“【Description】Hookers Against Hardship is a grassroots campaign of sex worker-led organisations, aiming to raise awareness of the specific experiences of sex workers during, and because of, the cost of living crisis. The spiralling cost of living means that more people, especially women and mothers, will be pushed into sex work; and current sex workers will be facing worse financial hardship. We’re working to try to alleviate sex workers’ financial hardship in the current crisis; and to lobby our elected politicians to combat the poverty, criminalisation, and danger faced by sex workers.”

■書籍

“【Introduction】The histories of the trans and sex worker rights movements are closely intertwined and, particularly in the UK, it’s rare to find a carceral feminist who isn’t also a rabid transphobe. What does it mean to write as part of a community that is under attack? Where, in fiction, is the line between exploring harmful ideology and humanising it?”

ブックレット

“【Description】An addendum and expansion on #SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis (2017)’s special considerations of some categories of criminalized survivors to organize alongside; namely: sex workers, survivors of violence and exploitation (sometimes called trafficking), people engaged in survival sex, and all those comrades in the sex trades facing violence from the carceral state.”

“【Description】An account of the 1982 occupation of Holy Cross Church by the English Collective of Prostitutes to protest police Illegality and racism, with photos and press coverage from the time.”

■企画

“Mark your calendars! Join @supporthosechi + @survivepunish for a virtual toolkit launch of: "Supporting Sex Workers & Survivors: Lessons for Defense Campaigns" on Dec. 8th @ 6PM ET.”（https://twitter.com/hackinghustling/status/1598107500699869186）

“【Description】This autumn marks 40 years since the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in the red-light area of King’s Cross, London, for 12 days to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers. The occupation took inspiration from sex workers who in 1975 occupied churches across France following a number of brutal murders, rapes and other violence which the police did nothing about while arresting and fining women instead.｜To mark this anniversary and as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, the Holy Cross Church has invited the ECP back to the Church to reflect on the significance of the occupation then and today with others who were there at the time ― local residents, the church and the police. The event, Hookers in the House of the Lord ― The Reunion, is modelled on the Radio 4 series.”

■記事

“【Caption】Using surveillance technology, platforms have found new ways to continue targeting marginalized groups.”

“【Caption】Exclusive: Campaigner says changing law ‘could be the difference between life and death for women’”

“【Caption】Exclusive: ‘After the raid, a lot of the women didn’t want to return to the premises because they were so traumatised,’ sex worker says as new information obtained under FOI laws emerges”

“【Caption】More people, especially women, will be pushed into sex work; and current sex workers will be facing worse financial hardship.”

“【Caption】In the cost of living crisis, women are not being pushed into prostitution by abusers, traffickers or pimps, but by the wilful neglect of the state. The time to act is now”

“【Exordium】The English Collective of Prostitutes has dubbed Newham Council’s proposal for a Public Space Protection Order for Romford Road as a ‘crackdown’ on sex workers, adding it would only ‘undermine’ their safety.｜Such orders are commonly used to stop anti-social behaviour like public drinking, and a breach is a criminal offence.｜It means that anyone caught buying or selling sex would face an on the spot £100 fine, and if taken to court could be charged up to £1,000.”

“【Caption】Newham Council wants to hand out £1,000 fines to anyone caught buying services from sex workers”

“【Caption】Current sex work laws in Canada make it impossible for sex workers to make a living without discrimination.”

“【Caption】Exclusive: ‘I’m saying yes to people I would have ordinarily said no to. I’m saying yes to acts I wouldn’t normally,’ sex worker says”

“【Caption】Hookers Against Hardship is calling on the government to protect sex workers as the cost of living crisis worsens ― we spoke to the organisers behind the campaign”

“【Caption】New sex worker-led campaign Hookers Against Hardship is calling for an end to stigmatisation and more government support in this crisis.”

“【Caption】"It's not only a financial problem, it's causing mental health issues from the constant worry about money, bills and feeding a family"”

“【Introduction】Forty years ago, a group of sex workers and their children occupied a King's Cross Church in protest against Police harrassment.”

“【Caption】Decrim now”／“【Introduction】Financial turmoil is pushing people who work in the sex industry into more dangerous and desperate situations as a means of survival, reports Ella Glover.”

“【Caption】Call to decriminalise sex work and support women in need rather than labelling them ‘unfit’ because of their work”／【Exordium】Every Wednesday, picketers meet outside the Central Family Court in London to protest against the unjust separation of mothers and other primary carers from their children.｜Among those who faithfully show up each week are the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), who demand an end to a perceived labelling of sex-working mothers as being ‘unfit’ to parent because of their work.