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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stigma operationalised… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Pheterson (1993) Dishonour and Unworthiness Watch here: youtu.be/I5UPqpBK3TE Subscribe to support the channel! #stigma #feministtheory #criminology #sociology #genderstudies #labourrights #socialpolicy #sxwork #RedUmbrellaResearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Work safer off-street, but criminalisation follows… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Criminalisation Indoors O’Doherty (2011) Watch here: youtu.be/oaaA9k884YE Please subscribe! #sociology #criminology #labourrights #harmreduction #sxwork #redumbrellaresearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does more law mean more justice? New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Why Decriminalise Adult Industries? Scoular & Fitzgerald (2021) Watch here: youtu.be/SwiYqHPDcCU Please subscribe to support the channel! #decriminalisation #justice #redumbrellaresearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Policing strategies don’t automatically undo stigma... New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Still Seen as ‘Trash’ Krüsi et al. 2016 Watch here: youtu.be/PKuYp-jnDPc Please subscribe to support the channel! #Stigma #Policing #redumbrellaresearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Law, policing and stigma make safety harder to achieve… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Irish Street-Based Workers and the Law after Dark Minescu et al. (2022) Watch here: youtu.be/rsqiM37X6OI Please subscribe to support the channel! #decriminalisation #policing #RedUmbrellaResearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Law changes what can be negotiated, recognised and challenged… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: When Law Produces Harm Brents et al. (2026) Watch here: youtu.be/b0SBxqtoYaI Please subscribe to support the channel! #lawreform #labourrights #redumbrellaresearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Safety is not an individual burden, it’s structural… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Beyond Individual Risk Deering et al. (2014) Watch here: youtu.be/UJO96bEAN1Y Please subscribe to support the channel! #publichealth #violenceprevention #policy #research #redumbrellaresearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What happens when intimacy becomes a middle-class service economy? New Red Umbrella Research Brief: The Price of Authenticity Bernstein (2007) Watch here: youtu.be/JJbA6E7-ucA Please subscribe! #Sociology #DigitalLabour #PlatformEconomy #Class #Research #redumbrellaresearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Who Benefits from Rescue? New Red Umbrella Research Brief: The Rescue Economy Plambech (2016) Watch here: youtu.be/QxEFeOKDN5s Please subscribe to support the channel! #migration #deportation #criminology #politicaleconomy #research #redumbrellaresearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When “rescue” becomes surveillance... New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Racialised Bordering Politics Mai et al. (2021) Watch here: youtu.be/-OvzQ2fFj_0 Please subscribe to support the channel! #research #sociology #criminology #migration #trafficking #border #ResearchBriefing #RedUmbrellaResearch

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Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) @iswrn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Open Access by Leigh-Ann Sweeney "The Closure of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI): Implications for Sex Work and Social Work" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A challenge to the ‘choice/coercion’ binary… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Labour Unfreedom Cruz (2018) Watch here: youtu.be/_mPmsWVoLm8 Please subscribe to support the channel! #labour #migration #marxist #research #RedUmbrellaResearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Social impact among academics can look like this… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Quiet Academic Activism Laing et al. (2022) Watch here: youtu.be/R_Jp7k00BXU Please subscribe to support the channel!

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When a caution becomes a life sentence … New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Cautions & Convictions, Lifetime Harm English Collective of Prostitutes (2023) report. Watch here: youtu.be/IiI9e79OAUU Please subscribe to support the channel!

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When we move beyond simple choice-or-victimhood narratives… New Red Umbrella Research Briefing: Agency Under Constraint Bungay et al. (2011) Watch here: youtu.be/ZgnWuB17PxY Please subscribe to support the channel!

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Great mail day 🥳 Thank you @anacristinasantos.bsky.social for including me in this wonderful book 💕 #ageing #intersex #sexuality #research #sex #edwardelgarpublishing If anyone wants me to come and talk about intersex, sex and sexuality please do hit me up 💕

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The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow) @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

(1/36) Here is a thread of posts I and others have made throughout #IndigenousHistoryMonth. While June is dedicated to Indigenous histories, it's important to remember that these histories are ongoing, interconnected, and year-long 🪶

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Participatory action research- a tool for change… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Research as Resistance O’Neill (2010) Watch here: youtu.be/FlE-C5k7pMw Please subscribe to support the channel! #Criminology #SocialJustice #ParticipatoryActionResearch #RedUmbrellaResearch #ResearchBriefing

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National Ugly Mugs @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📣 NEW ZINE In this issue: how to talk to the media as a sx worker, the launch of Red Umbrella Research (@ruresearch.bsky.social), Lip Service by the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social, upcoming events, plus art + writing from #sxworker creatives! Read 'Under the Red Umbrella': buff.ly/5GJMPD0

Text reads, "Under the red umbrella issue 9, zine by sx worker groups and creatives in the UK and Ireland" - drawing on the right depicts a luxury matchbox with a body wearing underwear.

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Criminalisation, a health risk… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Policing & Health Risks (Meta-analysis) Platt et al. (2018) Watch here: youtu.be/kaauYz3mgzI Please subscribe to support the channel! #ViolencePrevention #HealthResearch #Criminalisation #RedUmbrellaResearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Carceral frameworks can produce the very harms they claim to solve.... New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Graham (2017), “Governing Through Crime.” Watch here: youtu.be/dGuSrntxjxM #Criminalisation #Policing #Structuralviolence #Criminology #RedUmbrellaResearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Decriminalisation…Job’s Not Finished! New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Bennachie et al. (2021) @NZPC_ Watch here: youtu.be/PrLbeho2Xxo Please subscribe to support the channel! #Decriminalisation #MigrantRights #ProstitutionReformAct #Aotearoa #RedUmbrellaResearch

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Professionalism & Empowerment, Gloss (2024) Watch here: youtu.be/QEeytp0NXRM Please subscribe to support the channel!

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Constrained Choice…For Survival Decrim Now (2025) Watch here: youtu.be/kyXCJCMnq7E Please subscribe to support the channel!

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Stigma, Discrimination & SW Law, Armstrong, et al. (2024) Watch here: youtu.be/RvAkthO--lM Please subscribe to support the channel!

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New Red Umbrella Research briefing now live: SW & Occupational Homicide, Cunningham et al (2018) Watch here: youtu.be/V0Z0B9Wy750 Please subscribe to support the channel!

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The second RUR video is now live too! Risk, Resilience & Reward Hamilton et al. (2022) Watch here: youtu.be/iMGA3eo1BdU Please subscribe and support the channel! Weekly briefings to follow. #Policy #Criminology #DigitalRights #DigitalLabour #HarmReduction #ResearchBriefing

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The first Red Umbrella Research video is now live on YouTube. Discourse of Disposal, Lowman (2000) Watch here: youtu.be/CHFf0s-2sx8?... Please subscribe and support the channel. More to come! #Decriminalisation #Policy #Criminology #HarmReduction #ResearchBriefing

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ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I'm soft-launching 'Red Umbrella Research' a YouTube Channel sharing #research briefings that promote academic studies & community reports about #adultindustries #sxworkers. Full launch- end of April. Please follow me on socials. Solidarity! youtube.com/@redumbrella...

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