Research for Sex Work 15: Resistance and Resilience

Research for Sex Work 15: Resistance and Resilience
Year
2016

Research for Sex Work 15: Resistance and Resilience is a peer-reviewed publication for sex workers, activists, health workers, researchers, NGO staff and policy makers. It is available in English and French. All issues of Research for Sex Work can be found here

Contents include:

This article provides an overview of the resistance and resilience of sex workers in Lyon, France from 1972 - 1975 when they occupied the Saint Nizier Church in Lyon for one week.

This article explores the exclusion of migrants sex workers from the sex workers' rights movement in North America and provides key strategies for their inclusion.

This article provides an overview of sex worker-led programming in Kampala, Uganda.

This article provides and overview of the programming at Mothers for the Future, an organisation led by mothers who do sex work in South Africa.

This article provides a content analysis of the "Cowboy Urbain" magazine to demonstrate the resistance and resilience of male sex workers in Montréal. 

This article provides a summary of the report Nothing About Us, Without Us: Sex Work, HIV, Policy, and Organizing.

This article provides an overview of the impact of criminalisation on street-based sex workers in Toronto, Canada. 

In this article, Zahra Stardust argues that performer-centred porn in Australia is a form of sex workers' rights activism. 

You can download this 40 page PDF above. This resource is available in English and French.