new xtalk classes
x:talk - free English classes for migrant sex workers
now running two new classes
drop in and enrol at:
Sexual Health On Call (SHOC)
Finsbury Park
Mondays 4.30-6.30pm (year long course available)
Teacher: Ali
Seymour Street - Marble Arch
Thursdays 6pm-8pm
Teacher: Emma
next course starts: 29 JULY 2010 (12week course)
Contact Ava Caradonna for more information:
telephone: 079 1470 3372
email: xtalk.classes@googlemail.com
safe and confidential space
weekly classes [...]
Press Action
London commuters were this morning surprised to find that their usual Metro paper was a bit thinner, yet more interesting and engaging, than usual.
Tens of thousands of copies of a spoof newspaper that looked very similar to the free daily were distributed at 20 busy tube stations around the capital during rush hour. Thousands more [...]
X-MSG: An investigation of social software and sexwork activism
X-MSG takes an unconventional approach to mobile phone technology in order to develop methods that sustain social formations and networks within the sex industry while exposing and subverting the values underlying the design of communication technologies.
Our research is founded on practical experiments with open source mobile telephony software informed by local knowledge from the sex [...]
Sex workers organising and fighting back
A joint Workers’ Liberty / Labour Representation Committee fringe
meeting at Unison National Conference
Opposing motion 117, which support the “Swedish model” on prostitution
Speaker from the International Union of Sex Workers/GMB sex workers’ branch. Chaired by Alison Brown, recently elected to Unison Health Service Group Executive (pc)
6pm, Wednesday 16 June
Premiere Inn Hotel, Westbourne Road, Bournemout
roll up, roll up…x:talk is hiring
Position available:
Teacher for English classes for migrant sex workers
The x:talk project is seeking a suitable candidate to teach and co-ordinate our English language classes for migrant sex workers in London. The x:talk project is a sex worker-led workers co-operative which approaches language teaching as knowledge sharing between equals and regards the ability to communicate as [...]
New Directions in Sex Research: examples from CAMBODIA
DEPTS OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY AND EDUCATION, GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE
ESRC YOUNG WOMEN, SEXUALITIES AND VULNERABILITIES PROGRAMME
5TH MAY 2010, RHB, ROOM 308, 3:30- 6PM,
FOLLOWED BY DRINKS IN THE BAR.
ALL WELCOME.
Please join us at Goldsmiths College, London, for an afternoon of presentations and dialogue focused on past and contemporary ‘new directions’ in sex research with examples from [...]
Copenhagen: seminar on the rescue industry and migration
great to see some of x:talk’s favourite sane people in the “trafficking” debate - teaming up for this seminar and … in the heart of Sweden. we like!
Managing vulnerability: The rescue industry and the struggles of female migrants
Danish Institute for International Studies - DIIS
Strandgade 56, 1401 Copenhagen
Open to the public
5 May 2010
1430 - 1700
Seminar with [...]
SIO (Sex workers Interests Organisation)
below is from the x:talk email account:
btw: if you would like to get in contact with x:talk you should email
Ava Caradonna at xtalk.classesATgmail.com
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We are an organisation of sex workers in Denmark, fighting for all sex workers rights, and this is our website:
http://www.s-i-o.dk/
Here is our demo with feminist and queersupporters 8.march:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXZ6xkzOzs
May Day 2010
London May Day march & rally in Trafalgar Sq.
This year one of the main speakers at the rally is Thierry Schaffauser - President of the IUSW / GMB Branch. Saturday May 1 - assemble 11:30am - Clerkenwell Green EC1 - the march will be led by GMB Sex Workers & Adult Entertainment Branch / [...]
Bourgeois, anti-sex worker feminism
This article is from the Workers Liberty site and is by author: Jade Lori Baker
The launch of UK Feminista – a new feminist organisation seeking to link up grassroots feminist activists with larger campaigning bodies - sees sex workers take another quiet but harsh blow.
In the run up to the launch last Saturday, Kat Banyard, [...]