Demonstration Against the Policing and Crime Bill
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SEX WORKERS NEED SAFETY AND RIGHTS, NOT CRIMINALISATION
Demonstration Against the Policing and Crime Bill
12-2pm, Tuesday 3 November, Parliament Square
Bring placards and red umbrella’s and join the demonstration to [...]
Ongoing Debate about the Censorship of ‘Gay Imperialism’
You can access the xtalk statement on the censorship of ‘Gay Imperialism’ and Out of Place, a response by Peter Tatchell and read the ongoing debate here. We encourage interested folk to contribute their comments and opinions to this necessary forum.
‘Gay Imperialism: a proposito della censura di Out of Place al tempo della guerra [...]
The Other Swedish Model
Laura María Agustín has opened up a column on The Local, a Swedish media site in English, called The Other Swedish Model. The introductory post is:
The pleasures of dissent: Not?
At a drinks reception not long ago I referred nonchalantly to the fact
that Sweden is supposedly the world’s most gender-equal state. A
shiver was felt; eyes rolled. [...]
UK Premiere screening of “Understanding Trafficking”
plus Q&A with the director Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti
Monday 16th November, 2009 Goldsmiths Cinema
(Richard Hoggart Building, New Cross, SE14)
::part of Cinema Typhoon::
Legend goes, there is a magical line that Laxman drew around Sita, which no woman is supposed to cross.
If any woman dared to cross the magical line, she would risk being kidnapped by Ravan the [...]
Forget the propaganda and hear the evidence
Public Meeting
Forget the propaganda and hear the evidence on rape, trafficking and prostitution
6-7pm Monday 2 November
Committee Room 3A
House of Lords
Enter through St Stephen’s entrance
The day before the final debate on the prostitution clauses in the PCB, please join us in a discussion of the evidence. Whatever your views on the sex industry, women’s [...]
Sex work debate at Anarchist Bookfair
Two representatives from the International Union of Sex Workers participated in a panel discussion at the Anarchist Bookfair. The other panelists speeches can be found here.
Note: There is no spokesperson for the International Union of Sex Workers. As a feminist, non-hierarchical organisation, the IUSW wishes to present a diversity of sex worker voices, so [...]
Colonised yesterday; exploited today; tomorrow, regularised
This article first appeared on the French New Anticapitalist Party’s website on 22 October.
Translated for Workers’ Liberty by Ed Maltby.
A new wave of undocumented migrant workers’ strikes, bigger than that of April 2008, began on the 12th of October. Strikers are determined to get papers for all. To win that, solidarity from all workers is [...]
The Guardian: Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic
This article appeared on The Guardian website on Tuesday 20 October 2009.
Nick Davies
There is something familiar about the tide of misinformation which has swept through the subject of sex trafficking in the UK: it flows through exactly the same channels as the now notorious torrent about Saddam Hussein’s weapons.
In the story of UK sex trafficking, [...]
Dear x:talk
3 Sept 2009
Dear Xtalk,
My name is D and I am an ESL teacher in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. I work with many students, some of whom are sex workers in Rio’s “thermas” or bathhouses. I have been asked to teach an English course at one the gay bathhouses in Gloria.
While I have some [...]
On the censorship of ‘Gay Imperialism’ and Out of Place
We have recently witnessed the umpteenth attempt to silence voices that denounce paternalistic, neo-imperialist politics and argue against Islamophobic positions and homonationalist activism. On 7th September 2009, the book Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality (2008) edited by Adi Kunstman & Esperanza Miyake, was declared out of print by its publisher, Raw Nerve. The [...]
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