Sexifier: Centering Sex Workers in Academic Spaces

Because of the stigma surrounding the adult industry, sex workers’ voices are far too often misrepresented, downplayed, and excluded from the debates around their work and social struggle.

Sexifier is a multidisciplinary project that aims to amplify sex workers’ lived experience, challenge their invisibility in academic spaces, and bring forward a much needed paradigm shift in SW research. It brings together sex workers, allies, and researchers to build a community of practice for the discussion of the multiple levels of oppression experienced by adult workers and the ways in which we can create more inclusive spaces and keep the sex working community safe.

This event will feature a painting exhibition by artist and pornography scholar Alba Jato Bravo and will be divided in two parts: a workshop aimed at challenging anti-sex work stigma in research run by sex worker artist collective Sexquisite and a panel discussion and Q&A with speakers.

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Image credit: Alba Jato Bravo

This event is supported by the UCL Gender and Feminisms Research Network. The network brings together scholars and students at UCL and beyond, working across the arts, humanities and social and political sciences. Our aim is to explore the points where gender and feminist politics intersect with a diverse range of power relations and social movements. We also want to support broader EDI initiatives at UCL, working towards social change and widening access to research on gender and sexual diversity.