Researching Sex Work

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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Researching Sex Work (May 2019)

A panel of researchers presented on both peer and academic research on sex work covering the dual identities of closeted sex workers; sex work and migration; outdoor sex working areas across Europe; and recent peer research. The panel discussed the challenges and ethics of sex work research, and opened the floor to questions.

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Speakers: Lilith Brouwers, Dr Nick Mai, Dr Raven Bowen (National Ugly Mugs), Carolyn Henhamm, Niki Adams (English Collective of Prostitutes)

Researching Sex Work is the 16th 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): vawg trafficking borders ethics research