This autumn we worked alongside users of a new ‘Hub’ space in Hull City centre to co-create and inform a new, more containing, and loving space for it. We love mountains. They can be both calming and a reminder when we feel small, of the beauty in the power of nature and the universalising context… Read More
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A flavour of our mural: ‘Defiance’, for International Women’s Day
Between September 2021 and January 2022 we were part of an exhibition called In Conversation As Collective Strategy at Humber Street Gallery in Hull, with Film Artists Arwa, Turab and Funke from Other Cinemas, Louise Shelley, the Humber Street Gallery team, and Hull’s Black Heritage Collective. As part of this exhibition, we had the opportunity… Read More
Statement on conversations so far about the Nordic Model
We are glad that our MP Diana Johnson has met with us on two occasions to discuss her proposals for legislation aligned with the Nordic Model (criminalizing the purchase of sex), finding we have convictions in common for a future of greater equality. But we regret not feeling that we’ve yet been been heard. We… Read More
Being a Legal Representative by Susie Winter
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