It might have been my third week here in Brighton when I was walking down London Road and decided to stop for a bite to eat at some cosy homemade (looking) pie restaurant. The woman who took my order, also an African, remarked: ‘You are from South...
‘They took the razor out of the bag… I will never forget the pain I felt’, these were the emboldened words next to the face of a young African woman, with morose eyes that seemed to stare right back at me, while I sat on the London tube this past...
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ (Simone de Beauvoir 1949). The sentiment encapsulated in this classic quote is that gender is socially constructed, and not predetermined by genitalia (being born with either a penis or a vagina). That...
On Women’s Day (9th) the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and the South African national movement of sex workers Sisonke launched the ‘In Her Heels’ toolkit, at the Artscape Women/Humanity Arts Festival. ‘In Her...
This is a podcast of a group discussion with men who have sex with men for money (male sex workers). SWEAT Voices · Male Sex Workers Talk Business This podcast was originally broadcast on the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT)...
A transgender sex worker talks about how she was lured, conned, trapped, and brutally assaulted by police. SWEAT Voices · Police brutality of a sex worker This podcast was originally broadcast on the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce...
A group of Cape Town based mothers who are sex workers discuss the challenges they face in raising their children. SWEAT Voices · Sex work and motherhood This podcast was originally broadcasts on the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce...
