Later on last year in 2019, a good friend of mine contacted me on a Friday night. She told me she’d had a visit from two male police officers at 5pm, issuing her with a summons to court. This was for the breach of a section 222 order, for soliciting on two occasions. She told me… Read More
A year on from renewing the 222: we celebrate a first consultation meeting on Hull’s new strategy
Last week we met with Hull City Council for the first consultation meeting about the city’s new approach to street sex work, following the successful resolution of our Judicial Review to challenge the previous legislation. As it was a year to the day since the second ‘section 222’ renewal decision was made, we decided to… Read More
My Perspective. By Susie Winter
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
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