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Sex Work Advocacy with Jenna Love

Sex Work Advocacy with Jenna Love

Author: JOY 94.9 July 23, 2026 Duration: 50:26
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Jenna Love has worked as an independent sex worker for over a decade, and now leads Sex Work Advocacy work as the president of Scarlet Alliance.

In this episode she speaks with Jordan about her experience at the Women Deliver conference in Melbourne to the fight for decriminalisation across so-called Australia.

We explore the long history of peer-to-peer organising in the sex worker community, the contagious spread of the Nordic model, and what genuine allyship looks like.

Chapters

00:00 — Introduction

05:00 — Meeting incredible overachievers at Women Deliver

10:00 — Creating the sex worker networking zone

15:00 — Emerging Together: Sex Work at End of Empire

20:00 — Global solidarity among sex workers across borders

25:00 — Advice for allies supporting sex worker advocacy

30:00 — The Nordic Model and its harmful impact

35:00 — Queensland’s decriminalisation as best practice model

40:00 — Whore Walk: sex work history walking tours

45:00 — Sex work and digital rights

All chapter timecodes are approximate.

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Produced by: Jack Crnjanin & Jordan


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