Hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, and Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now)
A hot topic in feminist discussions, we bring together a panel of people with lived experiences of sex work and organisations that support them to talk candidly about:
• sex work in Scotland
• legal frameworks sex workers navigate
• support sex workers currently receive
• the support sex workers wish they could access
We aim to provide an up-to-date 101 on sex work in Scotland – any unanswered questions? Just ask!
This is a ticketed event. You can find the link to sign up here.
Ubuntu Women Shelter, National Ugly Mugs and the Sex Workers Union warmly invite you to a generative conversation (and Q&A) about the needs and rights of migrant sex workers in Scotland.
Framed by expertise drawn from front line support work, lived experience and interconnections with the larger feminist movement, VAWG sector, union organising and anti-racist and decolonial struggles.
We will provide brief context setting on:
• current challenges of women without recourse to public funds in Scotland
• different legal models around sex work
• experiences of migrant sex workers in the UK/Scotland
• criminalisation of migration from the global south to the global north
The knowledge held between the representatives of these three organisations amounts to decades of community organising and we know that the participants of this workshop will also bring a wealth of insight. We welcome this opportunity to learn, discuss, question and exchange.
Teas, coffee and light refreshments will be served.
This is a ticketed event. You can find the link to sign up here.
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.
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