By order of the Archive and Centre for the Documentation of Sex Work — Madonna Bochum , I conduct interviews with sex workers and sex work activists as contemporary witnesses. In this context, I met the sociologist Jan Visser in January for a first conversation about his political work in connection with the de-criminalisation and de-stigmatisation of sex workers and sex work.
In , a group of female sex workers formed De Rode Draad in Amsterdam, which was subsidised by the Dutch government from the get-go. De Rode Draad was involved in the development of a concept of decriminalisation of prostitution by regulation and integration of the sexwork into labour and employment laws. Their history, work and success is closely related to the Mr. Furthermore, the interview highlights the specific frictions and challenges, which a group is forced to deal with, when stigmatised sex work activists and academic allies who are no sex workers cooperate.
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