TransActions

Timeframe: 2017-present

Academic and policy debates about sex work often invisibilize the experiences of trans sex workers. Trans sex workers experience high levels of violence and victimisation in the course of their work, and there is limited availability of specialist service provision for trans sex workers nationally.

TransActions is a project developed with trans sex workers. We use an inclusionary, collaborative, and participatory framework; seek out the expert knowledges of sex workers and practitioners and ask them to identify the key issues they face in the context of their work and lives.

Read more about what we found out by downloading our resources.

Project team:

• Carly Bell
• Del Campbell
• Mary Laing, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University
• Angelika Strohmayer, Senior Lecturer in Design at Northumbria University

Contact: mary.laing@northumbria.ac.uk

Download the booklet outlining our findings here: https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publications/transactions-a-project-with-trans-sex-workers

Download our book chapter “Trans sex workers in the UK: security, services and safety” in ‘Policing the Sex Industry: Protection, Paternalism, and Politics’ here: https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publications/trans-sex-workers-in-the-uk-security-services-and-safety