Lucy Cann ([email protected])

PhD @BirkbeckHCA looking at intersections of race and sex work in late twentieth century Britain. AHRC funded. she/her.

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

@Taj_Ali1 Of course! I can send it over to the email address in your bio?

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

Wrote about some of this for my undergrad dissertation many years ago - it is so great to see this history being developed!

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

On the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike, it is worth exploring the solidarity efforts of British South Asians.

There were street collections from Southall to Birmingham. The Asian Youth Movements and Indian Workers Associations also sent minibuses to the picket lines. 🧵

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

Very excited to have my first ever article published!

[Brief Encounters @CHASE_BE]

@AnnaDevs Our second article is: The Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent, Prostitution and Pornography: The British Black Women’s Movement and Sex Work, 1970s-1980s by @_lucycann https://t.co/sCRZ0yY85h

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

My new blog for @Autonomy_UK @femfutprog

I shed light on the ECP's foregrounding of race in their understandings of sex work as work in the late twentieth century, and make the case for the inclusion of race in today's discussions of sex work and post-work more broadly.

[Feminist Futures Programme @femfutprog]

New on the @femfutprog blog 🚨

Drawing on recent archival research, @_lucycann explores the hidden history of race in the sex work activism of the English Collective of Prostitutes 👇

https://t.co/6z7FdwQVW3

[George Padmore Institute @GPI_Archive]

The GPI still needs your help. Our appeal for urgent building repairs to secure our Institute’s future has raised £9K. But we need to reach our goal of £35K, so we have some way to go yet. Please support our archive and donate here:

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[Self Esteem @SELFESTEEM___]

just a quick pop on here to retweet cabaret compliments and while I'm here: trans lives matter, nobody is complaining about our trans sisters on female wards, educate your family members about the importance of critical thinking in these horrific, terrifying times.

[Audrey Whorne @blacklodgewhore]

Something this whole Acorn thing highlights is how many people are comfortable viewing sex workers as something other, outside of the communities they exist in - as if there’s no way that SW working in Holbeck cannot also be residents of that area.

[David Olusoga @DavidOlusoga]

"Sandbach Tinne's enslaved Africans were worked to death on their plantations and accounted for in the financial accounts amongst livestock and when they died, their perceived asset value was written off under the "negro account". #AcademicFreedom #Slavery https://t.co/PPJXPKgO8Y

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

It was great to present my paper @BerksConference this weekend on sex work activism and race in late twentieth century Britain. Wonderful to hear about everyone’s amazing work and connect with others in the field #berks2023

[The History Hotline @TheHistoryHL]

On #InternationalWomensDay here are some episodes that feature the life and work of Black women or organisations and groups that have worked to fight for justice and equality.

📸: OWAAD Pamphlet (1978), Black Cultural Archives.

[ESWA @sexworkeurope]

Happy International Sex Worker Rights Day!
We've published speaking notes by OSCE Special Representative on human trafficking, Helga Konrad, explaining why we should oppose ANY forms of criminalisation & instead support full decriminalisation of sex work.
https://t.co/MFttczZP9m

[HAH Campaign @HAHcampaign]

This Friday March 3rd is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a day when we’ll be raising awareness of our fight for basic labour rights and freedom from criminalisation and discrimination. Throughout this week we’ll be sharing some short videos from our event for the

[HAH Campaign @HAHcampaign]

Today in the run up to International Sex Worker Rights Day (tomorrow, 3rd March), we're sharing a clip of a speech by Layla from @AgainstRape. Layla speaks about how many sex workers are prosecuted or harassed by the police instead of the violent men they report, and the fact

[SWARM @SexWorkHive]

Nadia is echoing what sex workers around the world have been saying for decades. Criminalising clients does not keep sex workers safe, it puts us in more danger - danger of violence from clients, violence from the police, and violence from the state. Thank you Nadia ❤️☂️

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

The 'root cause' of sex work is poverty and economic need, not demand from clients.

[(((Joanne Harding))) @Joanne13Harding]

“ I don’t care about the men buying sex” - wow, incredible. She talks about tackling the root causes of why women are exploited. I will spell it out, Nadia,MEN. This is why we need the conversations early with boys and men about how women are not just commodities to supply sex.

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

@AliceBateman2 Thanks Alice! And thanks so much for your questions, they were really helpful and thought provoking.

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

@s_h_o_n_e_s you can get yourself a lil zoom link here! https://t.co/DClew8LORV

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

Looking forward to presenting my paper on race and sexual labour in 1980s and 1990s Britain on Thursday. I'll be speaking about Black sex workers' experience of advertising and their relationship with the police - sign up below!

[HistoryLab @IHRHistoryLab]

This Thursday, @_lucycann joins us for her paper '‘On the Front Line’: The Place of Black Sex Workers in the Late Twentieth-Century British Sex Industry.' Sign up below!

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[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

@thetrainline I’ve got two tickets booked from Euston to Warrington Bank Quay tomorrow morning but the seat reservations haven’t been allocated next to each other. How can I change this?

[gal-dem @galdemzine]

‘She-men’, ‘ladyboys’ and ‘transvestites’: uncovering trans Southeast Asian archives https://t.co/edcb56LMuy