WORKING GIRLS: PROSTITUTES, THEIR LIFE AND SOCIAL CONTROL
by Roberta Perkins
An analysis of prostitution laws throughout Australia are presented in this book as Roberts discusses the need for the decriminalisation of prostitution. Detailed findings from a survey of Sydney prostitutes and excerpts from in-depth interviews are included. Perkins also reviews a vast literature on the subject of prostitution.
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ISBN 0 642 [...]
RETHINKING SEX-TRAFFICKING
::FRANÇAIS::
Victims of organized crime. Victims of male violence. Sex-slaves.
These are the terms commonly used to describe migrant women in the EUʼs sex industry. Trafficking, in contrast to ʻvoluntaryʼ migration such as smuggling, is defined as non-consensual form of migration geared towards exploitation of migrantsʼ labour whether in sex or some other kind of industry. This [...]
CROSSING BORDERS ISSUE 5: WOMEN ON THE MOVE
The new issue of “Crossing Borders!”, a transnational newsletter on “movements and struggles of migration”, is out now again in 6 languages (see www.noborder.org/crossing_borders/), and we ask all of you to support this project through wider distribution.
In Issue n. 5, we speak about women’s migration, and not for the first time: as we believe it [...]
EROTIC AWARDS FINALIST 2008
The x:talk project has been chosen as a finalist in the 2008 Erotic Awards competition (category: Innovation) in London. The awards are presented at the Night of the Senses on 12 September. This charity event benefits Outsiders.
Night of the Senses
The Erotic Awards 2008 Finals take place in the early evening of the Night of the Senses on 12 September, at Mass and [...]
5TH QUEERBEOGRAD FESTIVAL
on the agenda: Direct Action + Antifascism
18 - 21st Sept 2008
Belgrade, Serbia
www.queerbeograd.org
What does it mean to take action, to take responsibility to actively create the conditions for our own existence? How do we negotiate this with the society around us? How do we shape our own societies so that our actions form and inform the [...]
A MILLION WOMEN RISE MARCH 2008
post-script: this text appeared as a leaflet which was distributed at the Million Women Rise March 2008 in London
Today, we march alongside women on the Million Women Rise March with solidarity and respect. We are energised and excited to be a part of a rising tide of feminist activism. We are here to march and [...]
THE WOMEN’S LIBRARY + PROSTITUTION: WHAT IS GOING ON?
post-script: the text below was distributed outside the Women’s Library in East London on numerous occasions. Sex worker rights activist held several demonstrations outside the Women’s Library and arranged a large contingent of sex workers to visit the exhibition to demand the inclusion of sex workers voices.
A red umbrella intervention (November 2006)
Our mobilization around the [...]
SEX WORK WITHOUT APOLOGY
BY AVA CARADONNA
I am not proud of being a whore, but I am proud of not being ashamed
L, sex worker activist, London 2008.
Sex work is selling sex (or sexual acts) for money. There is nothing inherently exploitative or degrading about consensual sexual behaviour regardless of its motivation. Yet many campaigners and lawmakers ignore the voices [...]