Sex workers are doing it for themselves
24Jun11
Published in Red Mist, 19th June 2011
“Because sex workers shouldn’t be dead to be on film”, argued the promo blurb for London’s first Sex Worker Film Festival. And who aside from Henry of Portrait of a Serial Killer could disagree? Organised by the Sex Worker Open University, a “grassroots collective” of sex workers, academics and activists, the declared goal was to challenge the stereotypical representations of strippers and hookers as vulnerable “fallen angels” or “shallow, manipulative and without ethics”… Read more at Red Mist
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