Lecturer @UofGlasgow Chair @YoungWomenScot 🧡 Women & Children at the Margins research @phf_uk RJ Women Lead @RecoveringJust1 🕊️Founder @SISU_Group & Mother 🦋
Jun 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Thread on today’s report on Summary of responses to the Equally Safe Consultation on Prostitution - which reads (in some respects) like a refreshingly honest, evidence & experience based reflection of needs & experiences of Sex Workers in Scotland 1/ gov.scot/publications/e…
COVID-19 & related “reduction in demand” left sex workers in poverty & vulnerable to violence &other harm, yet no official recognition by @ScotGovJustice of fundraising efforts by @umbrellalane@SexWorkHive which was a “lifeline” not provided by @scotgov but by peer-led orgs /2
A thread of main arguments to save anyone having to read through what became a second thesis 🙄 on these important issues 1/8
#NotEqualNotSafe@scotgov ‘s sweeping definition of prostitution as inherently violence renders invisible actual acts of abuse in the sex industry; continues an ineffective& dangerous reliance on criminal justice approaches that fosters unsafe working practices& deters victims to seek redress 2/8
