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.

2022年6月24日，美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的梅利斯·巴斯特克（Maylis Basturk）对来自英国苏格兰北米德尔顿的露丝·摩根·托马斯（Ruth Morgan Thomas）进行了口述历史访谈。本次访谈通过互联网（Zoom）开展，属于健康与人权口述历史项目的组成部分。
露丝·摩根·托马斯投身性工作者健康、权利与尊严维权事业已逾三十年：曾以性工作者身份从业八年，于爱丁堡大学担任学术研究员两年半，专注于性产业中的艾滋病相关风险研究，其后二十余年在英国、欧洲及全球范围内担任性工作者权益倡导者。她现任性工作项目网络（Network of Sex Work Projects, NSWP）全球协调员一职，即将卸任，并代表NSWP联合担任联合国艾滋病规划署（UNAIDS）艾滋病与性工作咨询小组主席。
在本次口述历史访谈中，她分享了自己作为性工作者权益倡导者的职业轨迹：从最初参与性工作者权利运动，到与性工作废除主义者的数次交锋，再到作为资深人权捍卫者数十年的工作与成长历程。