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This FIRN research, led by sex workers with a feminist academic, explores the challenges and opportunities Uruguayan sex workers face online, and the individual and collective safety and self-care strategies they develop to navigate digital spaces. 🎨 Illustration by @perempuanmelawanart for FIRN

While technology has helped sex workers remain in the industry, they are exposed to significant risks, including image-based violence, harassment and emotional abuse, threats and blackmail, risk of physical violence and privacy violations.

Beyond digital violence, sex workers in Uruguay also face the structural disadvantages of a gig economy model and content-creation economies.