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23 posts todayPlease also subscribe to you YouTube channel https://t.co/SnkGdB... where recordings of talks are available. If you subscribe, you will be notified when new recordings (including today's) are up #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todayAs always, you can stay up to date with our talks, events, and publications at https://t.co/ZOUkVy... or on social media @nordicmodelnow (Twitter/Instagram) #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todayStudents for sale: Tools for resistance. London, Saturday 15 October https://t.co/vgDiD8... #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todayWe have two upcoming events: Prostitution: Pleasure for men, pain for women. Nottingham, Saturday 25 June https://t.co/F8WC1G... #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todayOur booklet Full Decriminalisation vs. The Nordic Model is available for free download (or cheap purchase) from our website https://t.co/rxyFGC... Please share it with Union members! #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todaySimilarly in the US, you can follow the work of Equality Model US: https://t.co/A7... #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todayAfter today's talk, if you want to follow relevant campaigns in Scotland, you can read up on A Model for Scotland: https://t... #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todayQ: How do we navigate friendships with men who parrot pro-sex work ideas? Luba: For one thing, it is not your job to convince every man. Diane: Remember that often these are the only ideas that people have ever heard #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayA profound point in a question from the audience: "coercion by poverty is still coercion"#NMNTalk
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23 posts todayDiane, in response to the same q: Exiting is not just about stopping involvement in prositution. These women deserve more. What would they like to do with their lives? What are their dreams? #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayQ&A question: how can we offer more to suvivors with their complex needs? Luba: making women feel like exiting IS an option, and that there are alternatives is key. Women in exploitation are likely to have extremely low self-efficacy #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayMarjorie: What brought people into explotiation? The most common experience survivors have in common in early childhood trauma. The average age of entry in my region is 15 #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayMarjorie: You cannot have prostitution without sex trafficking, they are inextricably linked #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayMarjorie: in the US, there is no system in place for the Nordic Model - no access to easy funding or services. We are pushing for decriminalisation through the Equality Model https://t.co/A7oG64... #NMNTalk ...
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23 posts todayDiane explains that rather than exploitation being privatised, it should be challenged and those responsible held accountable #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayDiane: To those of you who thought your money paid for consent, we did not want you to touch us. As soon as we could, we tried to scrub off all traces of you #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayDiane: If this is work, who is sought out to do such work? Where is the training? What are the qualifications needed? We know the answer, the demographics of those exploited in prostitution are overwhelmingly female and working class #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayDiane Martin, quoting @bindelj "The inside of a woman's body is not a workplace" #NMNTalk
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23 posts today"We can't consent to our own exploitation" - Diane Martin @SISTERTeenybash #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayWe hand over to our first speaker, Luba Fein, a feminist abolitionist activist from Israel. She has actively promoted the Nordic Model in her country, where the Sex Purchase Ban was enforced two years ago #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayFirstly, our chair Sophie Sherratt briefly explains the principles behind the Nordic Model, with Helena Kennedy's three contexts that create situations rife for sexual exploitation "war, poverty, and a lack of opportunity" #NMNTalk
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23 posts todayJoin us for our webinar 'Challenging the ‘sex work is work’ narrative' today starting at 2pm. We will be livetweeting the event with the hashtag #NMNTalk
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23 posts today‘Lives were being ruined’: the dark history of Girls Gone Wild