Our trip to London yesterday was an amazing day. It opened my eyes to all the help that’s available with educating us more, to enable us as a small group to give lots of women hope, and make a change for a better way of living. The fact that there is life after traumatic living… Read More
Archives for July 2020
A blog by Amanda Hailes on the Absence of Evidence exhibition so far
In 2016 we began to put the chapters together of An Untold Story, telling our stories and experiences of life on the streets and street prostitution. As a collective we wanted to highlight the multiple disadvantages that we experienced and what thousands of women are still experiencing today in Hull and the rest of the… Read More
Outing our presence with Absence of Evidence
On Tuesday the 14th, we silently held fourteen photos in Hull City Centre for fourteen minutes to honour the stories of the departed women behind each image. The fourteen women known to authors of An Untold Story who died during the time it took to write. It was the first time we’d ‘come out’ so… Read More
Absence Of Evidence (is not evidence of absence)
In collaboration with the artist duo Henry/Bragg, with support from LankellyChase, An Untold Story-Voices is launching an outdoor photography exhibition in Hull today – 13th July 2020, entitled ‘Absence of Evidence’. You can read our joint statement about the project here. The photos will appear on billboards, bus stops, large posters and parts of Hull and London… Read More
Marginalising 222 legislation dismissed
Statement: 07.05.20 As a local group with an interest in the equality and welfare of street based sex workers in Hull, we have been deeply concerned with the impact on women facing poverty and multiple and complex disadvantages, of the Council’s use of section 222 of the local Government Act (1972) in St Andrew’s Ward… Read More