My guest for today’s episode is Dublin-based, prostitution survivor, feminist and writer, Rachel Moran. Starting at 15 years old, Rachel was prostituted throughout Ireland for seven years. After getting out of the sex industry, Rachel entered Dublin City University where she completed a journalism degree and eventually winning the Hybrid Award for excellence in journalism. Her memoir, “Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution” was published in 2013 and Rachel continues fight for the abolition of prostitution through lectures and campaigns such as Turn Off The Red Light. In 2012, Rachel co-founded Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment, an international organization of prostitution survivors fighting for the end of prostitution and the sex industry.
I spoke with Rachel in December in Vancouver, British Columbia where she was a guest speaker the Montreal Massacre Memorial, an annual gathering organized by Vancouver Rape Relief.
BIO
Rachel Moran was prostituted for seven years in Dublin and other Irish cities, beginning when she was fifteen-years-old. She managed to extricate herself from prostitution in 1998, at the age of 22. In the millennium year she returned to education and completed a degree in Journalism from Dublin City University. She has been involved in the political push for the Nordic Model in Ireland since she first addressed the crowd gathered at the launch of the Turn Off The Red Light campaign in February, 2011. She has spoken at numerous international locations, including the United Nations Plaza in New York and Boston’s Harvard University. She works in conjunction with the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and the European Women’s Lobby. Her memoir ‘Paid For’ has just been published by Gill and Macmillan.
Thanks!
Rachel Moran, Vancouver Rape Relief, Elysse Cloma, and Jessica Lio.
Music Credits
Intro/Outro music: “Rainbow” by Emilie Simon. Remix from the original.
Additional music:
“Jazzy French” by bensoundmusic.com
“General Mixup March” by the Arthur Pryors Marching Band. Remix from the Original.
“Sally Ann” by Shake that Little Foot
“Got Funk” by Kevin MacLeod
“Statues” by Tzara
“I Guess So” by Steve Combs
“Retro Soul” by bensoundmusic
Women Hurrying History audio clips from thinkingallowed.com
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Rachel Moran “Listen You Can’t Stop Anything by Encouraging it” Interview.
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I thought that the interview with Rachel Moran was very interesting. We don’t hear stories like her very often. She is very brave. So glad to have heard her story.
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