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Cass

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Re: Sex work letters £100 for use in awareness and activist documentary.
« Reply #15 on: 11 October 2020, 12:33:44 am »
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However, my work is about the dystopia that women face in modern society, the focus on aspects of the negative but its not about the finer details of the job and how people are deprived, lonely exploited, trapped. Its about human rights and what happens when you stigmatise a group of people and criminalise activity surrounding it. Thus leading to a risky environment when women are made to work alone, cannot register there job to fit with immigration laws, are evicted from their accommodation for simply working, when any other freelance job lets you work from home.

The thing is Lou, is that we know all of this already because we live it. I don't know if you understand how patronising it is when people keep popping up thinking they have a unique take on sex work that's going to change the world and make everyone understand, but it's exhausting and relentless for us.

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This will not be a sensationalist piece and I am in no way affiliated to any news based channel or journalistic route.

If I had a pound for every time I'd heard this I wouldn't have to work, and if I had a pound for every time it was a lie I'd have double the money.

I'm not saying you're lying, in fact I think you seem very nice. But at this stage I think filmmakers, students, journalists or anyone trying to make this kind of piece needs to stand aside and let sex workers speak for themselves instead of trying to make us into subjects of their theory based work.

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Re: Sex work letters £100 for use in awareness and activist documentary.
« Reply #16 on: 12 October 2020, 09:19:10 am »
Hi Cass,

I agree I have seen some really awful condesending and just outright exploitative stuff on channel four and you are absolutely right about having film makers stand aside. Its not my voice that should be heard. Its something that I hadn't even thought about until reading stories of Covid 19 and how it was impacting the human rights act.

I took a diviation to cover what I thought was a complete sham of a situation and still is. Fortunately there are groups of people that are fighting to change this. Im just trying to evidence why it needs to. At the same time I known I have no right to ask anything of anyone or make assumptions. This film is not just about sex work but how women are treated in all aspects of life.

I can see why you would assume that I could be out to exploit people. There is no trust due to previous experience.  I know you understand more than I ever will. I was trying to explain why I am making the film not trying to tell you what you already know. I'm sorry if the post came across patronising.

Lou 🙂