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		<title>Collective for Sex Workers and Supporters in Taipei (COSWAS 1998 -  ) </title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=644</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>new xtalk classes</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=638</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Action</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=635</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X-MSG: An investigation of social software and sexwork activism</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=633</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Against homo-nationalism</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=630</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[queer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[solidarity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Judith Butler turns down civil courage award from Berlin pride: ‘I must distance myself from this racist complicity’
x:talk fully endorses the struggle of queers of colour against homo-nationalism, racist and Islamophobic campaigns against homophobia. In our work and our activism for the rights of migrant sex workers we strongly argue against the use of emancipatory discourses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex workers organising and fighting back</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=628</link>
		<comments>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=628#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A joint Workers&#8217; Liberty / Labour Representation Committee fringe
meeting at Unison National Conference
Opposing motion 117, which support the &#8220;Swedish model&#8221; on prostitution
Speaker from the International Union of Sex Workers/GMB sex workers&#8217; branch. Chaired by Alison Brown, recently elected to Unison Health Service Group Executive (pc)
6pm, Wednesday 16 June
Premiere Inn Hotel, Westbourne Road, Bournemout
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		<title>Experience: I ran a brothel in a country village</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=623</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in the Guardian on 5 June 2010
Claire Finch: read other related posts here
Most people would think where I live is the last place you&#8217;d expect to find a brothel or massage parlour: a pretty bungalow in a quiet cul-de-sac of a sleepy Bedfordshire village. But I&#8217;ve run one from my home for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>three excellent articles: on trafficking and prostitution</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=619</link>
		<comments>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=619#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 08:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[sometimes it is just good remember the texts and arguments that were formative in creating the political space of x:talk&#8230;
here are three such text written by Ms Jo Doezema - a sex worker rights activists / academic
1) Loose Women or Lost Women? The re-emergence of the myth of &#8216;white slavery&#8217; in contemporary discourses of &#8216;trafficking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>x:talk ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=605</link>
		<comments>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=605#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[we are proud to publish an important collective document  - &#8216;x:talk  ethics&#8217;
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  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>guidelines for x:talk classes</title>
		<link>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=608</link>
		<comments>http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=608#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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