Dekryminalizacja, praca, intersekcjonalność, uznanie: ramy ruchu pracownic i pracowników seksualnych w Europie
Decriminalization, Work, Intersectionality, and Recognition: Frames of Sex Workers’ Movement in Europe

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a critical reflection of the regional specificity and dynamics of sex workers’ movement in Europe. While highlighting three different waves of sex workers’ mobilization in the region, it will attempt to provide answers to two interconnected questions: a) what are the main demands, collective identities, and political projects underlying sex workers’ collective self-organization in Europe?; b) In what way do various social and cultural factors, such as the increasing criminalization of sex work, the outbreak of the HIV epidemic, the emergence of the global sex workers’ movement, and the raising popularity of anti-prostitution and abolitionist discourses, affect sex workers’ movement in Europe: forms of self-organization, orientations, and strategies of action, and, eventually, self-identification of sex worker collectives. I will look at the sex workers’ movement in Europe through the lens of International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE), the biggest sex workers’ transnational advocacy network operating in the European region. While drawing on the theoretical notion of frames of collective action, as developed in the social movement studies, I will distinguish four key frames guiding ICRSE’s mobilization and advocacy: frame of “the right to have rights,” frame of “decriminalization,” frame of “sex work as work in late capitalism,” and “inter-sectional” frame.

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