Madrid Sex Worker Fashion Show
In the spirit of building networks and links across borders.. some news and links to sex worker organisations in Spain (both websites are in Spanish).
Trabajosexual
Colectivo Hetaira
And some great photo’s from a sex worker action in Madrid ‘Pararela Lumi Fashion’- a sex work fashion show.
Imágenes del desfile organizado por el Colectivo Hetaira para reinvindicar los derechos [...]
Soho: Justice prevails against prejudice and witch-hunts!
report from the English Collective of Prostitutes on 18 Feb 2009
… also an interesting (and dare we say balanced) article appeared in the Evening Standard (below)
An application by the Metropolitan Police and Westminster Council for a Closure Order against two flats at 61 Dean Street, Soho, was dismissed today.
With the help of Soho sex workers [...]
Speak Out + Stand Up for Sex Worker Rights
Tuesday 31 March
2pm at the Eros Fountain, Piccadilly Circus
Bring your red umbrellas
Workers in the sex industry and their allies are speaking out against the Policing and Crime Bill.
This Bill will further criminalise those of us in the sex industry in the UK, whether we work by CHOICE, CIRCUMSTANCE or COERCION. It criminalises our clients, increases [...]
Sex Trafficking: Myths, Migrants and Morals
:: report from the workshop at Gender, Race, Class Conference ::
The aim of the workshop was to build on previous debates about the sex industry that have taken place in a variety of left feminist spaces over the last three years (including at Feminist Fightback conferences and the Feminist Activist Forum sponsored event last International [...]
Trafficking: it’s about migration - stupid!
10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT TRAFFICKING IN THE SEX INDUSTRY
1] THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A WORKING DEFINITION OF TRAFFICKING
Despite having pumped millions of £s into the Poppy Project and other anti-trafficking initiatives over the past 5 years, the UK government does not have a clear definition of trafficking [more info].
2] SEX WORKERS’ OPINIONS ARE [...]
Sex Traffic at the ICA
These days it seems you cant move an inch without running into something or someone debating trafficking in the sex industry. The latest event to spark the interest of x:talk is ‘Sex Traffic’ on 11 March 2009 at the ICA. The speakers line up has sex workers, advocates and activists (ignoring the one cop) from [...]
Love for Sale?
Working Girls (Director: Lizzie Borden, 1987) - not to be confused with the singular and singularly awful Mike Nichols movie that features Melanie Griffith vacuuming a carpet, nakedly - is an easily underestimated accomplishment, and despite the rampant nudity and unblinking depictions of adult sexuality, a guaranteed sex-deterrent. It’s hilarious, embarassing, grim, deeply disturbing, cynical, touching, [...]
London Sexworker Open University
The London Sexworker Open Univeristy will take place between Wednesday 1st of April and Sunday 5th of April 2009.
Locations
Wednesday: Queen Mary’s University, Mile End
Presentations by academics and activists on themes related to sexwork and sexworker
struggles.
Friday - Sunday: London Action Ressource Centre, Whitechapel
Friday: Art exhibition Opening: “Prostitutes of Europe”
Photography by Mathilde Bouvard
Saturday & Sunday: practical workshops, [...]
Make a Date with Feminists
On Saturday 14 February, Feminist Fightback and other feminist groups and organisations will hold
GENDER, RACE AND CLASS
ANTI-CAPITALIST FEMINIST CONFERENCE
xtalk will be speaking at the workshop ‘Trafficking: myths, morals and migrants’ with other sex workers organisations.
From the Gender, Race & Class website:
‘We are committed to an anti-capitalist feminism which sees the interconnections between all struggles [...]
Dont let a lack of evidence stop you now….
The combination of Julie Bindel and Jacqui Smith is enough to make your head spin…. and the sloppy and uncritical approach in the interview is so blatant that it barely passes as journalism.
But we are publishing this recent ‘interview’ to highlight the lack of evidence and also the disturbingly biased understanding of the sex industry [...]