Ruth Morgan Thomas, interview, North Middleton, Scotland, UK, 2022

Ruth Morgan Thomas, North Middleton, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2022 June 24, oral history inteview, by Maylis Basturk, Los Angeles, California, USA. The inteview was conducted over the Internet (Zoom) as part of the Health and Human Rights Oral History Project.Ruth Morgan Thomas has fought for the health, rights and dignity of sex workers for more than thirty years: eight years as a sex worker, two and a half years as an academic researcher at Edinburgh University looking at HIV-related risks in the sex industry, and twenty-plus years as a sex workers’ rights advocate within UK, European, and global contexts. She is the outgoing Global Coordinator of the Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), and currently co-chairs the UNAIDS Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work on behalf of the NSWP. In her oral history, she shares the trajectory of her career as an advocate for sex workers, from her first engagement with sex workers' rights, through confrontations with sex-work abolionists and decades of work and learnings as a leading human rights defender.