Free English classes for sex workers
Free English classes for female, male & trans escorts, working girls, adult service providers and all workers in the sex industry
FRANÇAIS :: ITALIANO :: CASTELLANO :: RUSSIAN :: THAI :: SRBIJA-HRVATSKA-BOSNA :: DEUTSCH :: PORTUGUES :: POLSKI
next course starts Sept 2010 (12week course)
Contact Ava Caradonna for more information :
telephone: 079 1470 3372
email: xtalk.classes@googlemail.com
- safe and confidential space
- weekly classes held in both Haringey and Edgware Road
- learn to communicate better at work and with clients
- beginners and intermediate levels
- certificate upon completion
x:talk is organised by and for workers in the sex industry.
x:talk is independent from government authorities.
x:talk is funded by donations and fundraiser events.
x:talk teachers have experience working in the sex industry.
The x:talk teachers
ALI
ALI is the current teacher of the x:talk English classes. Ali started teaching EFL after qualifying with an accredited TEFL Certificate in 1998. She has over 6 years EFL teaching experience in South East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Burma. She also has extensive experience teaching adult ESOL and Literacy in the UK to refugees, assylum seekers and adult and young offenders within the prison system, as well as private EFL tutoring. She has a BSc (Hons) degree in Social Science. She has experience in the sex industry in London and Tokyo. She has been involved in activism for a number of years, campaigning for refugee/assylum seeker rights, gay and lesbian issues, feminist issues and more recently, sex workers rights. She is currently teaching ESP (English for Special Purposes) and studying holistic therapies.
HEIDI
HEIDI taught on the x:talk English programme in 2010. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Education in 2001, and is recently completed her PhD in Anthropology and Media at the University of London. She has 12 years of teaching experience in English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and private tutoring. She has taught in the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, India, Japan and Cambodia. Heidi is familiar with the sex industries in London, New York, San Francisco and Phnom Penh (Cambodia), and she has been involved in research and sex worker rights activism for the past seven years.
PG
PG was the lead teacher of the x:talk pilot course in 2007. She qualified in English language teaching to adults in August2007 after she completed the Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). She has over five years experience of private tutoring and translation in a number of languages including Spanish, Italian and German. P.G. has had sex work experience in London and has been active in sex workers rights for the past 4 years and in feminist, migrant rights and queer politics for over 12 years.