Punishment & Protection: The Paradox of Sex Work in Scotland
Episode 5
|Season 3
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Since completing her PhD thesis, Dr Anastacia Elle Ryan has spent the last ten years working as a researcher, advocate and social entrepreneur promoting the rights of sex workers and criminalised women in Scotland and further afield.
Anastacia founded a charity which aimed to remove the stigma often associated with sex work and provided support and services that improved the lives of hundreds of women across Scotland.
In this final episode of the season, Anastacia talks to Rachelle Cobain about the social and legal position of sex work, how decriminalisation may have a positive impact on workers in Scotland and why she decided to turn her academic studies into activism and advocacy.
The Charity, SISU, is being relaunched soon, follow updates on Twitter @SISU_UK
Hosted/Produced/Edited by Rachelle Cobain, Communications Officer at SCCJR
Follow us on Twitter @RachelleCobain @AnastaciaRyan
Music: ‘Rewind’ by Donna Maciocia and Sean H available to download from the Distant Voices EP ‘Looking at Colours Again’.
Visit the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research website: www.sccjr.ac.uk and follow @TheSCCJR on Twitter & Instagram
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