Guided by our national Working Group of Racialised Sex Workers, this new service supports sex workers in reporting harm perpetrated by those in positions of public trust.
If you’d like support in navigating complaints, recovery or justice processes following a harmful incident, you can access our Reporting Professionals Form by logging in to the members’ area. After you you have submitted your report our Casework Team will be in touch.
Racialised sex workers in the UK sit at the intersection of historic and compounding forms of inequality.
Structural racism and anti-sex worker discrimination leave people navigating hostile systems across all parts of public life. These systems facilitate both unique support burdens, like poor health outcomes or a lack of safe housing, and discrimination when accessing support – including police violence and retaliatory expulsion from university.
Pieces of participatory action research – recognising the expertise of racialised sex workers and developing a group of collaborators whose contributions guided our work – these policy reports are examinations of how racism and anti-sex worker discrimination interact across key areas in public life.
NUM began the Racial Justice for Sex Workers Project with a set of Key Research Questions:
The project takes a public health perspective, considering both social exclusion and sex work as public health issues, and systems that criminalise sex workers and racialised people as drivers of public health harms. Following the above research questions, NUM developed this series of policy briefs, alongside a range of advocacy materials and the Reporting Professionals Service.
