The latest affront in an ongoing campaign of intimidation and harassment of Prostitution Narratives contributors and survivors Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade was released by Spinifex Press in April. Since then, all connected with the book have been subjected to abuse, insults, vilification and threats. Our survivors have been endured torrents […]
The Men who Buy Women for Sex Caitlin Roper ABC Religion and Ethics 7 Sep 2016 As long as men prioritise their perceived right to the bodies of impoverished women and girls over women’s basic human rights, the prostitution industry will continue to thrive. Caitlin Roper is an activist and campaigns manager for the grassroots […]
US book reviewer Marilyn Brady, who writes at ‘Me, You, and Books’ has written a review which perfectly describes the impact we had hoped our book would have on those willing to give its contents a fair hearing – a re-consideration of the dominant, accepted (and often un-examined) viewpoint on the […]
Bringing invisible women out from the shadows On Saturday August 27 I’ll be part of a panel titled ‘Invisible Women’ at the Melbourne Writers Festival. I’ll be talking about the book I co-edited with Caroline Norma, Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (Spinifex Press, 2016). With me will be Melbourne academic and […]
PODCAST: Survivors speak out in new book about the sex industry MTR, along with Prostitution Narratives contributors Simone and Charlotte, were interviewed by the inimitable Meghan Murphy at Feminist Current about our new book. As prostitution and the legislation that surrounds it has become an increasingly heated debate, the voices of women who survived […]
Simone Watson shared her story in our new book Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the sex trade. Here she challenges the dominant narrative on ‘sex work’ in a powerful piece on Feminist Current. In the spirit of the popular “sex workers are underrepresented” stance, repeated by liberal media and prostitution advocates, ad nauseum, Daily […]
Come and be part of this special event Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade (Spinifex Press) has been launched at packed-out events in Melbourne, Gold Coast and Toowoomba. Next up: Adelaide July 31. My co-editor Caroline Norma and I will address the event along with four sex industry survivors. We hope Adelaide […]
Francine Sporenda, an independent journalist based in France, recently interviewed me about Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survivor in the Sex Trade, for her website Revolution Feministe. The interview is in French and appears here. (a little taster above). If you are like me, you didn’t give high school French the attention it deserved and as a […]
Why Australia should adopt the Nordic Model International lawyers, Ruth Nordstrom and Rebecca Ahlstrand, are globally recognized legal experts on the Nordic model of prostitution regulation, first established in Sweden. They have been in Australia meeting with MPs in four states advocating for the Nordic Model to be adopted here. Ruth is President and Senior […]
ANZ lit blog interview with Caroline Norma and MTR I was a bit taken aback by the publicity email about this book; and it seems I am not alone. The authors and publisher are not finding it easy to get media and public recognition of the significance of the book. Legislative reforms intended to decriminalise […]
By Melinda Tankard Reist Genevieve, 33, was sexually abused by men when she was between the ages of 2 and 16 in New South Wales. Bred by her father specifically to be abused, she has suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), dissociation, flashbacks, and an eating disorder. Many times she wanted to end her life. […]
‘Women enter the sex trade for money and the trade makes promises of loads of cash that it never delivers. The trade perpetuates the very poverty the woman is trying to escape’ At the World’s Oldest Oppression conference at RMIT last month – an Australia-first gathering of sex industry survivors and abolitionists – a number […]
