S1 Ep7: Niki & Laura: English Collective of Prostitutes

Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week Sara speaks to Niki and Laura from the English Collective of Prostitutes, which campaigns for decriminalisation of sex work, about politicians, the police, and the current laws affecting sex work around the world.

Niki Adams and Laura Watson are spokeswomen for the English Collective of Prostitutes, a national organisation of sex workers working both on the streets and indoors which campaigns for decriminalisation and safety. They oppose austerity cuts and fight for housing and other survival resources so that women can leave prostitution if and when they want and highlight the fact that most sex workers are mothers trying to do the best for their family. The ECP provides daily support to sex workers and has won important legal precedents including cases which have helped establish sex workers’ right to the protection of the law against rape and other violence.

They are frequently called on to provide expert testimony to politicians, the media, and others on decriminalisation and the impact of current laws and policies.

🍌Find out more about the ECP here prostitutescollective.net

🍌And follow them on Twitter at @ProstitutesColl

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0:00.0	and usually kind of could economically support themselves otherwise how would we have heard about them
0:04.3	exactly I know Eleanor Rathbone is one of the ones that we kind of always highlight because she really fought for money for women
0:09.2	how did she yeah she was fantastic and she fought actually for refugee rights and you know against the racism of the day. Yeah, she was really great.
0:16.4	She's the one that brought in family allowance.
0:18.4	Which was the only money that women could call their own, you know, was you you know I'm sure save many
0:23.4	children from starvation yeah child benefits now yeah I that's what I remember is
0:28.0	having to go to the post-Stavistic one mom's family allowance and I kept
0:30.8	spending it because because it was such a lot of money to me I once bought a cat I got in no trouble
0:36.7	I put a new one Oh my God you should be interviewed for we of doing this project
0:39.7	The women at the center are doing this project about what do women remember about family and
0:43.0	leop ones.
0:44.0	Really?
0:45.0	What difference it made before and after getting it and what
0:48.0	do you think makes the family?
0:50.0	But buying a cat.
0:51.0	You were so brilliant story.
0:52.0	My poor mom because my mom
0:54.0	my mom desperately needs it she had three children by herself and the reason I
0:56.7	had to go is because she was at work there was no time and she was off work
0:59.4	where the post office was open so yeah you send your eldest eldest kid and that kid is just literally going
1:04.6	I'm a millionaire. I can pay everything. I pretended I'd lost the money. I pretended
1:09.4	the money flew away and that I'd found a cat while I'd looked for it. I know, what an awful girl.
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