Workshops with Community Partners
Visual notes from the workshop on inclusive HIV campaigns and sex work, which some project team members (Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Mbali Pewa, Lucy Cann) co-designed and delivered with Giulia Sbaffi and community partners. Those partners included, among others, members of Sisonke (South Africa), SWIPE (Italy), Terrence Higgins Trust (UK), the National AIDS Trust (UK), National Ugly Mugs (UK), Scotland for Decrim.
The workshop addressed challenges that sex workers have faced in HIV campaigns, but also productive examples from synergies between HIV activism and sex workers’ rights activism in South Africa, Italy, and the UK. The fair participation of voices from the Global South and the intersectional dimensions of HIV campaigns and sex workers’ rights activism figured prominently in the workshop and were addressed particularly in relation to the demand for the decriminalisation of sex work. The event took place in the National Library of Scotland thanks to funding from UKRI. Eddy Phillips prepared the visual notes