Laura Murray is filmmaker, activist with Davida/Daspu and a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and Prostitution Policy Watch – Federal University Rio de Janeiro. Her documentary on Gabriela Leite, co-founder of the Brazilian Network of Prostitutes, is at www.akissforgabriela.com.
CITED WORK BY Laura Murray
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Prostitutes and AIDS
How Brazil’s sex worker rights movement and its Ministry of Health partnered in creating one of the most well-structured and efficient HIV/AIDS prevention programs in the world. This ...
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“I’m happy being a prostitute”
POLITICAL PROSTITUTES AND SHAMEFUL POLITICIANS Laura Murray is a filmmaker, activist and PhD student studying sex worker activism and politics in Brazil. In an expansion on her blog post published at akissforgabriela.com, ...
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Observatory of Prostitution report on World Cup sex tourism in Rio
I am honored to be working as a research collaboration with Rio’s Observatory of Prostitution, an extension project of the Metropolitan Ethnographic Lab – LeMetro/IFCS-UFRJ at the Federal ...
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Prostitutes protest in Rio’s sister city
In preparation for this summer’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Rio has been undergoing the biggest prostitution crackdown in a generation, closing venues, arresting prostitutes, even seizing ...