As part of a larger study
examining the effects of the design of the off-street sex industry on sex
worker's health and safety practices, eight sex work experts who had experience
as sex workers and as advocates and service providers were interviewed to
garner their community engagement expertise in shaping the research.
During
narrative interviews, these experts discussed how stigma influenced their
personal lives and their social justice work among sex workers. Their insights
into stigma are unique to the literature because our experts simultaneously
confronted direct instances of stigma that were a part of their personal and
professional lives, sometimes concealing their sex work histories during the
course of their professional support and advocacy work.
As a result of this
concealment, and because of how sex workers are sometimes mistreated, experts
experienced stigma vicariously (indirectly) when their own sex work histories
were not apparent. As a result of these experiences, participants became
proficient at managing discrediting information about themselves when in the
presence of those they mistrusted. They supported sex workers through
stigmatising ordeals by using knowledge gained from these intersecting direct
and vicarious experiences stigma, continuously building capacity within
themselves and among other sex workers to resist stigma.
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