Blog Archive
Susan McKay, New Campaign Against Prostitution
Posted on November 23, 2009
The newly formed Sex Workers Alliance urges us to accept that prostitution is a freely chosen occupation, as viable a way of paying your bills as any other. The Alliance claims it can promote the health, safety and empowerment of those it calls sex workers in what it calls the sex industry. These are not victims, it insists. This view sees the man who uses prostitutes as a person buying a service from a person selling it.
'The choice not to be cared for' - guest blog post from Maman Poulet
Posted on October 19, 2009
Suzy Byrne blogs as Maman Poulet at http://www.mamanpoulet.com/.
The launch of the new NWCI website occurs at the same time as the launch of a new policy document on Who Cares. The invitation to make the inaugural blog post on the new website gives me the opportunity to raise a question on the choice not to be cared for.
As a disabled woman working with other people with disabilities on issues concerning independent living, I have observed how care and the way in which it is spoken about is something which has not been at the centre of the debate towards supporting people with disabilities in achieving choice, empowermet and control of our bodies and our lives.