
Jimini Hignett: “In the sex industry, we need to prosecute the buyers”
Artist and abolitionist speaks of her experiences researching the sex industry.
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"What can you do as a male power structure in order to make prostitution OK? You can label it a feminist act. That way you keep getting away with it."
"Many of the African women that I encountered had a good education. They had been to university, or had at least finished secondary school."
"What about focusing on the bloody perpetrators for a change?"
"I’m not sure what ‘decriminalization’ means. Does it just mean absolutely no interference with it whatsoever? But every single profession has some sort of regulation."
"LGBTIQ groups should rethink their alignment with sex workers’ rights, because sex workers’ rights tend not to be about sex workers’ rights but about brothel keepers’ rights."

Cristina Marí
Cristina Marí is a board member of K2.0. Cristina has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University Complutense of Madrid in Spain and the University of Bucharest, Romania.
This story was originally written in English.