Free lunchtime online forum on how QLD laws criminalise sex worker safety strategies. Sex worker panelists describe the impacts & solution
About this Event
Sex worker safety should be sexy NOT criminal.
Governments take safety in other industries seriously but sex workers in Queensland are working under laws that directly criminalise our basic safety strategies.
Letting another sex worker know your booking details and checking in at the end of the booking, driving each other to bookings, hiring a receptionist to handle the screening of bookings, working in the same hotel, working together in pairs or in the same house are all criminalised in Queeensland.
“Making sex worker safety strategies illegal means we have to choose between working safely OR legally. Safety is important to me. If I work safely I am likely to be charged.”
It is legal for police to use entrapment, posing as clients, to charge sex workers often for these same work practices that are important to maximising our safety.
Why? Why are there laws that criminalise sex worker safety in Queensland and why would police put resources toward targeting sex workers for these offences?
Listen in to our lunchtime forum to hear key note presentations on these issues followed by a panel of sex worker speakers discussing the impacts of these laws on our health, safety and rights along with the solution.
Sex workers in Queensland have been calling for changes to these laws for several years. Now joined by over 30 other organisations the campaign is calling for the decriminalisation of sex work in Queensland. Read more at https://respectqld.org.au/decriminalise-sex-work/