Hot Stew & Literary Gentrification: Sex Workers Respond
2021-03-25
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Fiona Mozley’s Hot Stew has been praised for its exploration of a changing Soho , but Victoria Holt argues that the novel erases the reality of sex worker life, becoming a form of the gentrification it seeks to condemn. Photos thanks to Juno Mac .....
'She had two little boys': the sex work photography project hitting Hull's streets
2020-07-31
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Not everyone sees the same things as they walk the city streets. For some women, unremarkable spots – a chipped and shuttered doorway, a litter-strewn graveyard, an alley by the railway tracks – have been regular places of work, and also sites of devastating violence.
In 2014, Hull became the only local authority in the UK to use Section 222 of the 1972 Local Government Act to ta .....