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In May 2019, SWARM hosted a three day festival to celebrate ten years of organising. This included panel discussions across a wide range of topics that impact on sex workers, and which connect and intersect with sex worker rights organising as well as broader struggles for justice. The conversations and discussions from that festival lay the groundwork for the Decriminalised Futures project.

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How Do Disability and Sex Work Intersect in the UK Today (May 2019)

Do disabled people require access to sex work or to sex workers? Many sex workers are disabled – what about their clients? Is sex work an easy way out of the benefits system? This panel looked at how disability and sex work intertwine in the UK, and what changes would allow justice for disabled people and for sex workers.

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Speakers: Trixie Roberts, Rosa Thomas and Lydia Caradonna (Decrim Now), Emily Rose Yates (Enhance)

Credits: composition by Anita Castelino and Sherry Ostapovitch, mix by Sherry Ostapovitch, edit by Tamara Schreiber and Radio Ava, recording by Hollis Robin.

How Do Disability and Sex Work Intersect in the UK Today is the 12th panel discussion of the SWARM 2019 Festival of Resistance.

The topics included:

  • Imagining Feminist Futures

  • Radical Transfeminist Activism

  • Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe: When Survival Is Made Criminal

  • Sex Work and Migration in Europe

  • The Impact of Austerity

  • Sex Workers of Colour Roundtable

  • (Resisting) Systems of Violence

  • Sex Workers on the Nordic Model

  • Artists Talk Bodies, Visibility, and Violence

  • Radical Histories: Exploring the Archives

  • Aesthetics vs Ethics: Expanding Definitions of Feminist Porn

  • How Do Disability and Sex Work Intersect in the UK Today

  • The Future of Work

  • Technology, Surveillance and the State: How We Resist

  • Examining Anti-trafficking Measures: Academic Perspectives

  • Researching Sex Work

  • Strength, Resilience, and Healthcare

  • A Decriminalised Future

Year: 2019
Type: panel discussion
Series: swarm festival of resistance
Subject(s): disability health racism vawg