Sold to the Lowest Bidder
"The stance that prostitution, sanitised with the term 'sex work', is a viable career route normalises and endorses women as commodities to be bought."
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Women Are Not Ambassadors for Their Sex, Even Theresa May
Women in power are seen as representing all women and are criticized for their actions as such. It's time women are treated as humans, not just as women.
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Imperfect Victims of Sexual Violence
Women who have been targets of sexual violence are still being disbelieved if they fail to meet the standards of a 'perfect victim'.
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Plastic, Periods and Poverty – Saving the Environment or Shaming Women?
Shaming women into shelling out money for expensive replacements of necessary plastic sanitary products is not the way to protect the environment. As we step into the New Year, talk and thoughts inevitably concentrate on resolutions for the coming 12 months. This year, more than ever, it feels there is a move away from vowing […]
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Criminalising Vulnerable Women Groomed into Prostitution
This is the story of ‘Ann’ – a woman who grew up in the care system, groomed and exploited, still marked by permanent records for the sexual crime of prostitution. Ann* is now 43 and a project worker living in Middlesbrough and she knows she is lucky to be where she is now, compared to […]
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It’s Time Women Stop Having to Pay the Cost of Prostitution
The social implications of prostitution are clear, but men, without whom prostitution would not exist, are invisible and erased from the equation. It beggars belief that an offence which resulted in a £100 fine more than twenty years ago could still seriously harm a woman’s career. Yet, many women who were coerced into prostitution below […]
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Women Get Killed Despite Extensive Precautions – Why Doesn’t It Stop?
Emma Chesworth explores the realities women face in the course of their everyday lives - the risk of being murdered in the course of an ordinary work day.
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