Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast episode 609 and what a special episode we have.

We've just come off International Women's Day at the weekend and this episode is with two of the most inspiring and wonderful and amazing women I've been lucky enough to sit down and have a conversation with.

I'm joined this week by Kate Nash and Maeve Joy. I give kind of introductions as to who they are,

but to give a little background, you know Kate Nash is, obviously, but Kate Nash has been

on before. I've known Kate for a long old time. Go and check our previous conversation for kind of how we met and all that kind of thing.

And Kate's always been a real advocate for action and change and, yeah, an activism.

And at the end of last year, Kate launched an only fans to help support her touring and really use that moment and that bit of media, I guess,

to push the issues in the music industry and to promote the positivity of sex work

and to try and remove the taboos.

So I reached out to Kate and said, I'd love to have you on to chat,

but I felt that this was a conversation that shouldn't be 50-50 male and female voice.

And sadly, as it's my podcast, there's always going to be a male voice. I also didn't want it to be

100% music industry voice. I wanted to get someone who has experience in the sex work world.

And I spoke to a variety of amazing people.

I spoke to Reid Amber and Florence Given of the Come Curious podcast,

who've previously been on this podcast.

They're fantastic.

You should check that episode out and their podcast out.

The first chunk of this episode, this conversation,

is basically the three of us absolutely gushing over that wonderful podcast. I also spoke to

Pamela Blonde, who's a wonderful advocate and activist and someone with loads of experience

in various areas of the sex work industry in Scotland, who actually at the moment is doing or has organized.

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