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My writing for @FiLiA_charity on Holbeck, the legal red light zone in Leeds. A feminist action is currently underway by @LeedsReSisters there. https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/9/8/holbeck-a-case-study-of-hell
'If one wants to know how unempowering the situation is for prostituted women and girls, one needs only read the punter reviews'.
As such this essay has a big content warning on it: https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/9/8/holbeck-a-case-study-of-hell
As such this essay has a big content warning on it: https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/9/8/holbeck-a-case-study-of-hell
Thank you so much to @FiLiA_charity for giving me a platform and to the women such as @LeedsReSisters and @claireOT undertaking feminist action in Leeds regarding this.
'The fetish killer, Donald Sheridan, who the council & probation service decided to house in the managed zone in Holbeck while he was on parole, told police in an interview regarding his abduction & attempted rape of a woman in Holbeck in 2019 that ‘he still experiences urges...
...to rape and murder women, especially strangling them, and he had recently felt the urge to strangle an older sex worker after using her services’ https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/9/8/holbeck-a-case-study-of-hell
In 2015, ‘Sally – a young woman with learning disabilities, then aged 17 – was approached at a bus stop in Beeston on a weekday afternoon, bundled into a car, and raped in a nearby home....
..With DNA evidence, the attacker was quickly arrested and prosecuted in court. However, during a gruelling court case which saw Sally forced into a cross-examination, the defence lawyer argued that his client had simply mistaken Sally for a sex worker, and he walked free’.
This is what the @LeedsReSisters action is about (Photos belong to Leeds Resisters). https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/9/8/holbeck-a-case-study-of-hell
If you are full of fury after reading it, support the @nordicmodelnow campaign. Support @ObjectUK who campaign on prostitution as one of their issues. Write to your MP about this and the need for the Nordic Model in the UK.
This is the community campaign group in the area: http://saveoureyes.co.uk/about-the-zone/
For further reading, @bindelj has been writing and campaigning about Holbeck for years. Type her name and 'Holbeck' into Google and many fantastic articles will come up.
'In November 2018 it was reported to the police and the press that a man tried to buy a baby for an hour in Holbeck. ... the man reportedly said 'Give me an hour with it and I will bring it back' https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/9/8/holbeck-a-case-study-of-hell
The Council who instituted this and claim it is a success is mostly Labour bromentum, bearderd, entitled men who can't define a woman unless they want to sell her. A few women support them such as Ms. Blake. Same Council which wouldn't allow WPUK to meet: https://womansplaceuk.org/dear-leeds-council/
