Episode 7: Transactional Relationships & Decriminalisation Of Sex Work
Defining transactional relationships and the ways in which they can empower and disempower women and decriminilzation of sex work.
Kgomotso Matsunyane and her feminist co-hosts discuss transactional relationships in the context of blessers/sugar daddies, marriage & sex workers. They host Professor Azwihangwisi Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi, who speaks about the impact of blessers on young women and queer people and expands on the idea of marriage as a transactional relationship. They equally explore the risks that come with undergraduate students in blesser/ blessee relationships and women’s agency in these kinds of relationships. The Elders corner hosts 2 guests with opposing views on the topic of criminalisation and decriminalisation of sex work.
Guests
Table Guest: Professor Azwihangwisi Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi - Professor and Researcher.
Elders Corner Guest 1: Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge - Former Deputy Minister of Health and Defence and founder of Embrace Dignity.
Elders Corner Guest 2: Constance Mathe - National Coordinator of the Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex Workers
Allies Corner Guest: Professor Kopano Ratele, Clinical Psychologist
Language Term
Transactional relationships: Dikgolaganong tsa marato tseo di ungwelwang tšhelete.
Quotes
Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequality, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health - Peggy Orenstein
African womxn in general need to need to know that it’s okay for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence - Wangari Maathai
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body - Margaret Sanger
Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free? - Gloria Alred
It is not enough to have laws that protect young women… they need to have agency over themselves and their bodies and can claim those rights at any time, unapologetically. - Refilwe Madumo
No country can boast of being free unless its women are free. - OR Tambo
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