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Helen Lewis: Why I'm getting less liberal about sex work

The journalist and author talks about how she came to question her previous beliefs in the latest episode of Changed My Mind.

Helen Lewis: Why I'm getting less liberal about sex work
"I've become less liberal and more, I guess, socialist" | Helen Lewis. All rights reserved
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Helen Lewis, a journalist at The Atlantic and author of 'Difficult Women: the History of Feminism in 11 Fights' talks about how she came to question her previous liberal beliefs on sex work. She also remembers a former Labour MP who cried after receiving an apology for being deselected when she came out in the 1970s, the limits of unconscious bias training and more.

Changed My Mind is a podcast from The Depolarization Project. Each week, we talk to someone who has undergone a serious shift of opinion about something that matters deeply to them. It's hosted by chief executive Ali Goldsworthy together with behavioural insight expert Alex Chesterfield and director of campaigns and communications at London First, Laura Osborne.

Further reading

'Maureen Colquhoun: “an open lesbian-feminist woman” in the House of Commons'