Sehin Teferra is an Ethiopian feminist activist and a PhD candidate at the University of London. She is currently researching violence against sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she lives with her husband and daughter
Beyond the simplistic dichotomies within western feminism on the nature of sex work there is a complex picture in which many women take a pragmatic approach, negotiating with their sexuality an income while withstanding the ’occupational hazard’ of rampant violence, says Sehin Teferra