International Women’s Day: This is why sex workers are striking in London
The IndependentSign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’ll be marching to highlight the inadequate working conditions faced by sex workers in this country, namely that they are forced to work in illegal and therefore dangerous ways by the law.” Mac says by downing tools it draws attention to their “struggle as workers”. “By striking we want to make lawmakers understand the damage created when you criminalise the survival strategies of marginalised people – they will be abused by bosses or clients, they might be locked into a cycle of selling sex to pay off unaffordable fines, closed off from other jobs, they could lose their homes or children.” Cleaning toilets, raising babies and cooking food is often seen as low value work." “It’s for this reason that decriminalisation of sex work is an issue that the international Women’s March community should be given it’s attention to,” she says. “Sex workers know that the way their work is devalued resembles the disrespect given to other labour traditionally done by women,” says Mac.
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