Collective for Sex Workers and Supporters in Taipei (COSWAS 1998 - )
A report by COSWAS
The Taipei Association of Licensed Prostitutes (TALPs) was formed in 1998 when the then Taipei City Mayor and later President of Taiwan, CHEN Shui Bian of the Democratic Progressive Party, banned licensed prostitution within 48 hours. The licensed prostitutes in Taipei organized themselves and protested publicly for the first time in Taiwanese history against the [...]
x:talk ethics
we are proud to publish an important collective document - ‘x:talk ethics’
please take the time to read it and if you have any comments or questions please drop us an email or post a comment below
in struggle,
ava caradonna
x:talk ethics
As workers in the sex industry we are often denied a voice, we are [...]
guidelines for x:talk classes
1) Teaching to a variety of people from a variety of language backgrounds, x:talk uses the method of full-immersion, i.e. our teachers will only use English in class. However, given the multi-level nature of our classes, we encourage the participation of assistants with second or third language knowledge to assist specific students if and when [...]
A note to researchers and media workers
The x:talk project is a political effort to organise and empower sex workers. The majority of our time and work is spent teaching English classes to migrant sex workers. The vast majority of x:talk co-operative members are unpaid workers. Whilst we understand that people may wish to research the x:talk project and the work we [...]
MAIZ
maiz is an organisation by and for migrant women and was created out of the necessity for changes with regards to migrants’ living and work situation in Austria as well as in accordance with the strengthening of political and cultural participation.
In the knowledge of the legitimacy of our role as protagonists [...]
x:talk collective meetings
the next x:talk collective meeting is scheduled for:
Monday 10 May at 6.30pm - 8.30pm (with drinks in the pub afterward)
venue is 5mins walk from Marble Arch tube
The x:talk project is a sex worker-led workers co-operative organised by a collective of sex workers, sex workers rights’, migrants’ rights, and feminist activists. The project is open for [...]
RACE, RACISM AND THE SEX INDUSTRY/SEX TRADES: special issue of $pread
more from the x:talk inbox …
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RACE, RACISM AND THE SEX INDUSTRY/SEX TRADES
For our summer issue, $pread is proud to host a guest editorial collective of US-based sex workers and allies of color. The issue will explore race and racism within the sex industry/sex trades in the United States. How [...]
Dear x:talk
We are the Nodo Solidale collective - Solidarity Knot, a grassroots group of activists based in Italy and Mexico. Our path is antifascist, antiracist, antisexist libertarian and independent from any party. Since a few years we have been working on building bridges of solidarity and cooperation together with the activists involved in anti authoritarian [...]
Reclaim the Night: A space for all feminist?
The following text has been sent to the London Feminist Network, lead organisers of the 2009 London Reclaim the Night March:
On 21st Nov 09 Feminist Fightback went as part of a Red Umbrella contingent on the Reclaim the Night March in London. We joined RtN because we are committed to fighting violence against women, and [...]
Red Umbrella Contingent on Reclaim the Night March
Feminist Fightback and x:talk would like to carry on the tradition of marching together - as feminists and sex workers - on the annual Reclaim The Night March.
Our message will be ‘feminists need sex workers, just as sex workers need feminism’.
The Reclaim the Night March is Saturday 21st November - 6pm at [...]