Juno Mac: The laws that sex workers really want
冬妮·麦克: 性工作者渴望的法律
Juno Mac campaigns for better working conditions for sex workers by fighting criminalization and supporting public education projects around issues relating to sex worker rights. Full bio
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you'll have heard speaking
or a social worker.
a journalist or a politician.
也不从政。
picked up from Maryam's blurb,
玛丽亚姆的演讲,
that selling sex is degrading;
卖淫是可耻的,
women get abused and killed.
女人受虐甚至被杀害。
until the closing months of 2009,
当2009年的最后几个月,
minimum-wage jobs.
只拿最低工资的工作,
replenish my overdraft.
was going nowhere.
was a better option.
to have won the lottery instead.
通过赢一次乐透来赚钱,
to happen anytime soon,
shift in a brothel.
签下了我的第一份合同。
I once had about prostitution.
我对卖淫曾经的看法。
labor of women.
and violence at work.
from these things.
远离剥削和暴力。
the four main legal approaches
四种与性工作者相关的
actually exacerbates every harm
as sex workers, actually want.
我们真正渴望什么。
is full criminalization.
and most of the US,
和大部分的美国,
everyone involved.
包括卖春者,卖春者和第三方
apparently hope
will deter people from selling sex.
会遏制人们卖淫的想法。
between obeying the law
when you have a criminal record.
就很难找到传统的工作。
informal economy.
仍然是脆弱的,不正规的。
of its intended effect.
to mistreatment by the state itself.
会受到国家本身的不公平对待。
into paying a bribe
with a police officer
in Cambodia, for example,
柬埔寨的警察和监狱看守
subjecting sex workers
like Kenya, South Africa or New York,
或纽约这些地方卖淫,
if you're caught carrying condoms,
警察就可以逮捕你,
as evidence that you're selling sex.
避孕套就是合法的证据。
carrying condoms,
如果你被逮捕时身上有避孕套
to leave them at home, right?
把它留在家里,对吧?
are forced to make a tough choice
or having risky sex.
和被捕之间做出选择。
when he got you in the van?
抓到你时会直接强奸你呢?
sex work seen in these countries
of sex are legal,
on the street, are banned.
behind closed doors
sex workers working together.
更多性工作者一起工作。
that many of us work alone,
卖淫必须单独进行的法律条款,
vulnerable to violent offenders.
暴力罪犯时更加危险。
by working together.
after she was attacked at work,
在工作时被袭击后非常紧张,
from my place for a while.
or I'd call the police.
this place is illegal."
without getting physically violent,
that we were breaking the law
also causes more harm
不但没有减少性工作者的危险,
to avoid detection,
without going back to the streets?
哪里有钱支付罚款呢?
that saw you in the streets
you got for selling sex.
who worked in Redbridge, East London.
她在雷德布里奇,东伦敦工作。
would normally wait for clients in groups
她那里的站街女
to avoid dangerous guys.
on sex workers and their clients,
to avoid being arrested.
in the early hours of October 29, 2013.
she had received for soliciting.
因为拉客而收到的罚款。
sex workers hurts them,
性工作者违法是在伤害她们
the people who buy sex?
model of sex-work law.
is intrinsically harmful
sex workers by removing the option.
as the "end demand" approach,
in Sweden as there was before.
in business is going have
to give me that information.
from a man who is untraceable
your clients from the police.
or in isolated locations,
means snap decisions.
like the Netherlands, Germany
model for human rights.
这不是一个好的模型。
areas or venues,
with special restrictions,
and forced health checks.
regulation around the sex industry
性产业的价格门槛,
legal and illegal work.
合法和非法工作并存的双重系统。
"backdoor criminalization."
“秘密犯罪化”。
can comply with the regulations,
可以遵守相关的规定,
find those hoops
takes time and costs money.
也需要大量的时间和金钱
and needs money tonight.
or fleeing domestic abuse.
也许正在逃离家庭暴力
are forced to work illegally,
the dangers of criminalization
for people selling sex.
work alone in isolated locations,
让她们在僻静的角落孤独的工作
they'll get away with it.
people to keep selling sex,
to take dangerous risks
of potentially abusive managers.
and hatred against sex workers.
耻辱和仇恨钉在大家心中。
the Swedish model two years ago,
sex workers to be arrested now
更多的人希望
has been a survival strategy
minority groups:
to see or know about.
understandable fears about trafficking.
贩卖人口有无可厚非的恐惧。
kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery
a whole industry down.
和作为性奴隶进行买卖。
in many industries,
are migrants or otherwise vulnerable,
和其他弱势群体中,
targeting those specific abuses,
直接针对特殊的受虐待群体,
in Morecambe Bay in 2004,
捡拾蛤蜊被淹死时,
the entire seafood industry
workers more legal protections,
工作者更多的合法保护
without fear of arrest.
is thrown around
migration into prostitution is forced.
从事卖淫行业时都是被迫的。
have made a decision,
of people smugglers.
when they reach their destination.
demand exorbitant fees,
they don't want to do
to be forced to do any kind of work,
are willing to take,
into the hands of people smugglers.
交到走私者的手里。
that people want or need to do,
or crossing borders
actually doing those things.
基本没什么用。
they're safe when they do them.
人身安全影响巨大。
that the sex industry is a site
我知道性产业深刻地
are men with money,
is a terrible policy.
禁止性交易是一个糟糕的政策。
people selling sex to survive,
为了生存进行性交易,
a better world into existence.
通过立法改善世界。
because they're poor
或者无家可归
and they can't find legal work,
不能找到合法的工作,
doesn't make them any less poor
sex is degrading.
than going hungry
挨饿更加可耻么?
from hiring nannies
doing that labor are poor, migrant women.
大多是贫穷的女性移民。
selling sex specifically
贫穷的女性移民进行性交易时
strong feelings.
会引发强烈的不满情绪。
of complicated feelings
on the basis of mere feelings,
the heads of the people
会被法律影响的人们
the abolition of sex work,
废除性交易念念不忘,
about a particular manifestation
your daughter doing it?"
的问题。
the Swedish or Nordic Model
most affected by these laws.
sex work in 2003.
are not the same thing.
the removal of laws
性产业的法律惩罚
much like any other kind of work.
平等看待性产业。
can work together for safety,
为了安全一起工作,
are accountable to the state.
to see a client at any time,
以任何理由
protects their rights.
seen an increase
has made it a lot safer.
legislation is good,
with sex workers;
Prostitutes' Collective.
from sex workers themselves.
性工作者自己的声音。
like the Sex Worker Open University
比如性工作者公开大学和
and self-determination.
is the red umbrella.
by global bodies like UNAIDS,
联合国艾滋病规划署
移民问题、公共卫生问题,
对您而言至关重要。
to sex workers when we speak
is either too victimized,
被欺骗或者被伤害
what's best for herself,
如何保护自己
of voiceless victims.
微言轻的受害者的人。
and empowered is imaginary.
败坏性工作者的名声
have mixed feelings.
对这份工作都怀着复杂的感情。
about our work certainly isn't.
the right to work safely
根据我们自己的主张
to those experiences.
escorts in New York City,
street workers in South Africa
南非的站街工作者,
at my old job in Soho,
每一个名单上的女孩,
and labor rights as workers.
和其他工作者一样的劳动者权益。
on the stage today,
站在台上的性工作者,
from all over the world.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Juno Mac - Sex worker and activistJuno Mac campaigns for better working conditions for sex workers by fighting criminalization and supporting public education projects around issues relating to sex worker rights.
Why you should listen
Juno Mac is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Open University (SWOU), a sex worker-led collective with branches in London, Leeds and Glasgow. SWOU is focussed on advocacy, campaigning, cultural events and community support for sex workers.
Through their organizing, SWOU activists support each other through stigma and isolation, demand better working conditions by fighting criminalization and provide public education around issues relating to sex worker rights. Mac's activist work with SWOU has included delivering workshops in universities, political lobbying and campaigning, consulting with human rights organisations (including Amnesty International), appearances on radio and TV, and taking part in public panel discussions at festivals and conferences.
Mac has also curated an exhibition of sex worker art, contributed to magazines and a live storytelling night, facilitated skill-sharing and support spaces for fellow sex workers, and helped to organise SWOU's Open Conference of The Advancement of Sex Worker Rights 2015.
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