Laura Graham
@lauragraham86.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. Research sex work, human rights, regulation of sex, bodily autonomy, and feminisms. Trustee of National Ugly Mugs. Editor in Chief of International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law
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Our convenor, @lauragraham86.bsky.social, is speaking at a research event in France. Laura is a project partner on 'droits et politiques du travail sexuel 2026', a research/action initiative on improving European laws and policies on sex work. It is funded by l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
October 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Our convenor, @lauragraham86.bsky.social, is speaking at a research event in France. Laura is a project partner on 'droits et politiques du travail sexuel 2026', a research/action initiative on improving European laws and policies on sex work. It is funded by l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
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Trans rights are human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trans rights are human rights.
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100% of people who have taken our Sex Worker Awareness Training would recommend this training to others.
This training is available in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Developed by sex workers, this training will enhance participants' knowledge including
• What is sex work?
This training is available in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Developed by sex workers, this training will enhance participants' knowledge including
• What is sex work?
March 28, 2024 at 9:00 AM
100% of people who have taken our Sex Worker Awareness Training would recommend this training to others.
This training is available in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Developed by sex workers, this training will enhance participants' knowledge including
• What is sex work?
This training is available in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Developed by sex workers, this training will enhance participants' knowledge including
• What is sex work?
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We're hiring a Manager for NUMbrella Lane in Glasgow! 📣
This role requires managerial experience, and a deep understanding of the health, safety and rights issues confronting sex workers in Scotland. Join the team!
Click to access the full job posting:
nationaluglymugs.org/2025/09/17/j...
This role requires managerial experience, and a deep understanding of the health, safety and rights issues confronting sex workers in Scotland. Join the team!
Click to access the full job posting:
nationaluglymugs.org/2025/09/17/j...
September 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We're hiring a Manager for NUMbrella Lane in Glasgow! 📣
This role requires managerial experience, and a deep understanding of the health, safety and rights issues confronting sex workers in Scotland. Join the team!
Click to access the full job posting:
nationaluglymugs.org/2025/09/17/j...
This role requires managerial experience, and a deep understanding of the health, safety and rights issues confronting sex workers in Scotland. Join the team!
Click to access the full job posting:
nationaluglymugs.org/2025/09/17/j...
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Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
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Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
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September 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
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The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.
September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.
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ICYMI We launched our Migrant Sex Workers and Housing Research last month. It outlines how current laws encode discrimination against sx workers in law and the racism migrant sex workers face.
www.ireland-live.ie/news/ireland...
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Three-quarters of sex workers started because of financial reasons – research
Around three-quarters of sex workers in Ireland started because of financial reasons, research shows. The research, carried out by Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI), also found that migrant sex…
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September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
ICYMI We launched our Migrant Sex Workers and Housing Research last month. It outlines how current laws encode discrimination against sx workers in law and the racism migrant sex workers face.
www.ireland-live.ie/news/ireland...
www.ireland-live.ie/news/ireland...
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I won a prize 🥳 Well, Deserted Wives did 😍 📖
Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!)
Deserted Wives currently has 30% off:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...
#19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025
Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!)
Deserted Wives currently has 30% off:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...
#19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025
September 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I won a prize 🥳 Well, Deserted Wives did 😍 📖
Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!)
Deserted Wives currently has 30% off:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...
#19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025
Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!)
Deserted Wives currently has 30% off:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...
#19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025
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So many emotions sharing this, but here is the 1st paper from the study I did with Dr Jo Garstang, Dr Nikki Speed & Jon Holmes, published in BMJl (Paediatrics). It centres on what families want & need from professionals after their child's sudden, unexplained death pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40850909/
Needs and experiences of families after a sudden unexplained death in childhood: a qualitative study - PubMed
Every family must receive swift, proactive, knowledgeable communication from professionals, during and beyond the investigation into their child's sudden unexpected death. This will help them through ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
So many emotions sharing this, but here is the 1st paper from the study I did with Dr Jo Garstang, Dr Nikki Speed & Jon Holmes, published in BMJl (Paediatrics). It centres on what families want & need from professionals after their child's sudden, unexplained death pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40850909/
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It turns out that sex work IS work when police want to deport migrants. Brothel workers were arrested and deported for working without a visa in England.
www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-...
www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-...
Police close suspected Surrey brothel after antisocial behaviour reports
A woman and man in their 40s were arrested on suspicion of assisting the management of a brothel
www.getsurrey.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It turns out that sex work IS work when police want to deport migrants. Brothel workers were arrested and deported for working without a visa in England.
www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-...
www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-...
Saw this on FB and it feels so pertinent
August 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Saw this on FB and it feels so pertinent
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The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
August 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
I mean more like months/years if you do participatory work. And it counts for nothing if you don't get the money 😡😡
If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
August 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I mean more like months/years if you do participatory work. And it counts for nothing if you don't get the money 😡😡
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If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News
Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.
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UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News
Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News
Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.
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something I keep thinking about and which I can't make up my mind on is: were swathes of the right, centre-right and, in some cases, the centre, full of racists hiding their beliefs for decades, or are these people all incredibly suggestible? neither answer is good!
large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry.
it's "cool" that every conservative pundit in the UK basically seems to want to turn the country into Norsefire
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
something I keep thinking about and which I can't make up my mind on is: were swathes of the right, centre-right and, in some cases, the centre, full of racists hiding their beliefs for decades, or are these people all incredibly suggestible? neither answer is good!
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Associate Professor Helen Rutherford has co-written a book on Newcastle Prison. There will be a book launch on Thursday 21 August at 6:30pm at Newcastle City Library. You can book your place at the launch here - www.tiny.cc/newcastlepri...
Book Launch - Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925
Join the authors to celebrate the launch of the new book Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925.
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August 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Associate Professor Helen Rutherford has co-written a book on Newcastle Prison. There will be a book launch on Thursday 21 August at 6:30pm at Newcastle City Library. You can book your place at the launch here - www.tiny.cc/newcastlepri...
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Starmer really is a moral vacuum. Utterly devoid of any principles.
Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood
Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood
July 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Starmer really is a moral vacuum. Utterly devoid of any principles.
Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood
Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood
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Exciting news - Prof. Sarah Kingston, Dr Nicola Harding and I are organising a special issue for @areajournal.bsky.social titled "The Geographies of Fraud and Financial Crime".
Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!
Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!
July 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Exciting news - Prof. Sarah Kingston, Dr Nicola Harding and I are organising a special issue for @areajournal.bsky.social titled "The Geographies of Fraud and Financial Crime".
Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!
Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!
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It wasn’t long ago that media used to say lesbians in bathrooms or changing rooms sexualised “innocent” straight women and made them uncomfortable. Such fears were weaponised politically to vilify lesbian women as sexual predators. Now we see the same comments recycled about trans women. It’s gross.
July 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It wasn’t long ago that media used to say lesbians in bathrooms or changing rooms sexualised “innocent” straight women and made them uncomfortable. Such fears were weaponised politically to vilify lesbian women as sexual predators. Now we see the same comments recycled about trans women. It’s gross.
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Maybe we should start listening to the people who said that this kind of thing was going to happen? Maybe they're the ones actually speaking common sense?
July 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Maybe we should start listening to the people who said that this kind of thing was going to happen? Maybe they're the ones actually speaking common sense?
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27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
July 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.