Setting The study was conducted in the major metropolitan cities of Lagos and Ibadan in Nigeria from January to June 2021. Lagos is the biggest metropolitan city with a population projected at 9 million, and Ibadan’s population was projected at 3,565,108 making it the third largest metropolitan city [37]. They are the major cities and […]
Workers
Los Angeles hotel workers fight for panic buttons amid sexual harassment | California
Sonia Molina Sanchez, worked as housekeeper at the celebrity hotspot hotel Chateau Marmont for 10 years. She will never forget the night she was sexually harassed by a guest. “I knocked on a guest’s door and went inside, and as soon as I went inside something didn’t feel right,” said Molina Sanchez. “The guest was […]
Sex worker’s story held until now by WA state library details life in red light districts like Roe Street
In 1988, Joan St Louis gave an oral history recording to the State Library of WA detailing her life as a sex worker from the 1930s to ’50s on one condition — that it not be released until after her death. She died six years later, and the library has now decided to share her story […]
‘From Hating My Mom to Learning How She Saved my Life’: Rescued Sex Worker’s Story
Trigger Warning: Mentions of rape, sexual and physical abuse. *All identities in the story have been kept anonymous. It was a regular morning in October 2014. I was getting ready to go to school with my younger brother. My mother seemed disconnected that day like her mind was elsewhere. I could hear the utensils fall […]