Michelle Alm Engvall, Shirin Heidari, Dorothea Hilhorst, Clea Kahn, and Megan Denise Smith.
BLISS, Feb, 27, 2022 | Blog post
Transactional Sex (TS) is often used as an umbrella term to encompass a wide range of practices ranging from sex work to sexual exploitation and abuse. TS is typically framed in humanitarian settings through reductive lenses that portray the person engaged in them as without agency, forced into “negative coping strategies” by a larger crisis. Academics and practitioners have challenged these dominant framings in the Transactional Sex in Humanitarian Contexts panel as part of the 6th International Humanitarian Studies Conference.