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2025

A decolonial walk: Bengali migrants in the East End original ↗

17 Mar 2025

2024

Historical migrations of workers and layabouts original ↗

24 Sept 2024

Gender, Sex and Class in East End History original ↗

20 Aug 2024

London’s Sex Industry and the Stage in the Long 18th Century original ↗

2 Jun 2024

What’s unusual about this antislavery walk?original ↗

5 May 2024

Which 14th-century working women did sex work?original ↗

21 Apr 2024

History from Below in Camden Walks original ↗

20 Feb 2024

An Interest in the Backside of Things original ↗

3 Jan 2024

2023

I’ve won a prize: Women’s History Network Independent Researcher Grant original ↗

29 Oct 2023

How to buy tickets for Laura’s London History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class original ↗

30 Aug 2023

Open for Business: London Walks with Gender, Sex and Class original ↗

20 Aug 2023

Who wants to go to Essex? A walk in Rochford town and by the River Roach original ↗

7 Aug 2023

Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat – A guided walk original ↗

2 Aug 2023

The Witches of Manningtree: A Walk on the River Stour original ↗

3 Jul 2023

2021

Le sexe en tant que travail et le travail du sexe (Sex as work and sex work)original ↗

1 Feb 2021

2020

Christmas in the Brothel original ↗

24 Dec 2020

Snake Oil: A Memoir on the Rise of ‘Trafficking’original ↗

14 Dec 2020

Sex workers working with police: Sue Davis, Vancouver BC original ↗

11 Dec 2020

Sexworkers’ long history as political experts, English translation: Thierry Schaffauser original ↗

12 Nov 2020

Sexworkers’ long history as political experts: Thierry Schaffauser original ↗

9 Nov 2020

Naked Anthropologist News: Bloody Brexit, Feb 2020 original ↗

17 Feb 2020

Naked Anthropologist News for Radio Ava: Jan 2020 original ↗

12 Jan 2020

2019

Christmas in the unexciting brothel original ↗

23 Dec 2019

What is Decrim? The many places of prostitution in law original ↗

28 Feb 2019

Sexbuyer laws: War on clients, says Israeli MP original ↗

8 Jan 2019

2018

Migrant sex worker: a term that has arrived original ↗

18 Dec 2018

Migrant Caravan in Tijuana: Report from a volunteer lawyer original ↗

4 Dec 2018

Sex workers may unionise – but can prostitutes? The case of Sindicato OTRAS original ↗

26 Nov 2018

Migrant sex worker in a Thai brothel: Le Carré’s The Secret Pilgrim original ↗

25 Oct 2018

Highways as sexwork-places, with chairs original ↗

17 Jul 2018

Back to Barcelona: Migration and Sex Work original ↗

17 May 2018

Grid girls and the Presidents Club: Women and sexist jobs original ↗

12 Apr 2018

Victimisation of Mary Prince: Early Rescue-Industry history original ↗

2 Apr 2018

Report from Macedonia: Balkan Noir original ↗

13 Mar 2018

Strike4Decrim on Women’s ‘Day’ Soho 8 March 2018 original ↗

12 Mar 2018

2017

Sex at the Margins: Beyond Binaries in Trafficking & Sex Work original ↗

29 Dec 2017

The New Abolitionist Model original ↗

20 Dec 2017

International Day To End Violence against Sex Workers original ↗

13 Dec 2017

Xiaojie: no sexworker identity original ↗

11 Dec 2017

If you thought Trafficking was a bad term, try Modern Slavery original ↗

22 Nov 2017

Sex work in fiction: Gorky Park, Moscow prostitution doesn’t exist original ↗

3 Nov 2017

All that is trafficking is rape, and other emotional excesses original ↗

1 Nov 2017

Migrants sell sex in flats, or are they brothels?original ↗

16 Oct 2017

Incitement to paedophilia: It’s the zeitgeist original ↗

28 Sept 2017

Who are migrant sex workers?original ↗

22 Sept 2017

Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction original ↗

13 Jul 2017

Paying for sex in Graham Greeneland: Sex work in fiction original ↗

19 Jun 2017

Wearing slammerkins and dreaming: Sex work in fiction original ↗

5 Jun 2017

Social-Problem novels and The Three-Headed Dog original ↗

29 May 2017

Worker declines rescue in Magdalen Nabb: Sex work in fiction original ↗

25 May 2017

Ellroy’s Black Dahlia as a B-girl: Sex work in fiction original ↗

22 May 2017

The girlfriend experience in Lawrence Block: Sex work in fiction original ↗

19 May 2017

Hustling and cruising with John Rechy: Sex work in fiction original ↗

17 May 2017

James Lee Burke with French Quarter scam: Sex work in fiction original ↗

15 May 2017

The postwar London of Doris Lessing: Sex work in fiction original ↗

11 May 2017

The Rescue Industry has a song original ↗

8 May 2017

More 5-star reviews for The Three-Headed Dog original ↗

4 May 2017

Interviews by Johnny Lemuria and Maggie McNeill original ↗

2 May 2017

Who is the Three-Headed Dog? Surveillance and migration original ↗

30 Apr 2017

Interview with Radio Ava, sexworker radio in London original ↗

29 Mar 2017

Pimping as a job: Blood on Snow and The Three-Headed Dog original ↗

20 Mar 2017

Reader reviews of The Three-Headed Dog original ↗

14 Mar 2017

Thinking about sex work as work: Dublin Anarchist Book Fair original ↗

12 Mar 2017

Sexwork and migration fiction (4): To go with sex tourists or smugglers?original ↗

20 Feb 2017

Being and being reviewed: Books as pieces of self original ↗

15 Feb 2017

Sexwork and migration fiction, part 3: Location and nation original ↗

10 Feb 2017

Sexwork and migration fiction, part 2 : Jobs in the sex industry original ↗

31 Jan 2017

Migrants in novels: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia original ↗

27 Jan 2017

Sexwork and migration fiction, part 1: Melodrama and archetypes original ↗

23 Jan 2017

The Three-Headed Dog: Sexwork and Migration Mystery original ↗

9 Jan 2017

Sexwork expressionism from Edvard Munch, or Everyday life in a brothel original ↗

5 Jan 2017

2016

Exchange on an anti-trafficking hotline original ↗

17 Dec 2016

2015

Trafficking: The globalisation of weak thinking and dumb language original ↗

2 Nov 2015

End Demand: the B movie original ↗

1 Sept 2015

Research is not activism: And whose interests are at stake, anyway?original ↗

31 Aug 2015

Is Sex at the Margins (going to be) a classic?original ↗

12 Jan 2015

Becoming aware of Awareness-Raising as anti-trafficking tactic original ↗

7 Jan 2015

2014

‘Sex Work is Not Sex Trafficking’: An idea whose time has not come original ↗

19 Sept 2014

Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art original ↗

3 Jul 2014

Somaly Mam, Nick Kristof and the Cult of Personality original ↗

1 Jul 2014

No, Virginia, This is not a study of The Underground Commercial Sex Economy original ↗

27 Mar 2014

Meanings of sex work original ↗

24 Feb 2014

My Texas talk on anti-trafficking and the denial of women’s consent original ↗

3 Feb 2014

Sweden and prostitution law: the conditions of possibility original ↗

13 Jan 2014

Women doing things again, on their own original ↗

6 Jan 2014

2013

Sex at the Margins: holiday gift or way to escape the celebrations original ↗

21 Dec 2013

What does the French prostitution law mean? Denial of consent original ↗

4 Dec 2013

Contentious and contradictory: Prostitution-law campaigns in Europe original ↗

12 Nov 2013

France anti-prostitution crusade succeeding, rights activists disqualified from debate original ↗

4 Nov 2013

Social-work projects fail sex workers despite helping-hands image original ↗

23 Sept 2013

Does banning prostitution make women safer? The perils of interviews original ↗

16 Sept 2013

Segregation, colonialism and unfreedom at the border original ↗

12 Sept 2013

Judge dismisses academic claim to sex-trafficking expertise original ↗

9 Sept 2013

Stigma and disqualification not the same as hatred and fear original ↗

28 Aug 2013

Prostitution Law & the Death of Whores in Jacobin Magazine original ↗

26 Aug 2013

Fallen Women: persistence of an image original ↗

12 Aug 2013

The irrationality of prostitution laws original ↗

5 Aug 2013

Cry with trafficked women: Colonial prurience and 3-star hotels original ↗

1 Aug 2013

Remembering Judge Himel: Bold assertions and inflammatory language not useful to the court original ↗

19 Jun 2013

My Erotic Award as Campaigner: win for a reasonable point of view original ↗

3 Jun 2013