If you are a regular to the site or you know of Beyond the Gaze’s work, you will know that we are working hard to ‘gift back’ the research, our sex worker resources and outcomes to the sex work community. We have been working closely with our partners National Ugly Mugs and their newly formed Research and Development team – NUM R&D – an expert group of industry professionals – to develop ways in which BtG’s research continues to have positive benefit for sex workers now and in the future.
We already have produced:
- A forty four page document – ‘Safety and Privacy for Online Sex Workers’
- Safety and privacy tip cards
- Safety and privacy leaflet
- Safety and privacy flyers
All of the above were written by sex workers, have been informed by the BtG research and are all available in print or digital form. BtG, NUM and NUM’s R&D team have been busy tweeting and uploading – so download our main document (PDF of Safety and Privacy for Online Sex Workers) from this page. You can also, if you prefer, read it section by section by hovering over the Resources for Sex Workers tab – you will see the title of the document in the drop down menu – see what grabs your attention and you just click to read that section here on the site.
The other resources will be available soon in a downloadable pack. Print versions are being distributed but are currently limited, we’re working on that.
The team at NUM R&D and BtG are now looking at more ways the safety and privacy info can be shared with the sex work community – and even more ways to share the research findings in an effective, creative and community-focused way.
Updates will appear here on this site, on the BtG twitter, the NUM twitter and NUM’s R&D twitter.
Teela Sanders, Lead Researcher for BtG and Raven Bowen, CEO of National Ugly Mugs, have written a post on ‘where we go from here’ to further look at what research is, why we do it and what we do with the findings. Their post is on the way!
Did I say this update would be quick? Whoops….
Until next time,
Matt and the BtG Team 🙂