three excellent articles: on trafficking and prostitution
sometimes it is just good remember the texts and arguments that were formative in creating the political space of x:talk…
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 ‘white slavery’ in contemporary discourses of ‘trafficking [...]
SIO (Sex workers Interests Organisation)
below is from the x:talk email account:
btw: if you would like to get in contact with x:talk you should email
Ava Caradonna at xtalk.classesATgmail.com
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We are an organisation of sex workers in Denmark, fighting for all sex workers rights, and this is our website:
http://www.s-i-o.dk/
Here is our demo with feminist and queersupporters 8.march:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXZ6xkzOzs
Liberal in the middle
A response to Laurie Penny on sex work.
By Sofie Buckland, part-time activist, full-time English undergrad, part-time button monkey/code geek. Read her blog here.
There is a phenomenon, observable across feminist debate, that I like to call playing liberal in the middle. Where two ideologies clash there’s always someone who claims the middle ground for their [...]
Bourgeois, anti-sex worker feminism
This article is from the Workers Liberty site and is by author: Jade Lori Baker
The launch of UK Feminista – a new feminist organisation seeking to link up grassroots feminist activists with larger campaigning bodies - sees sex workers take another quiet but harsh blow.
In the run up to the launch last Saturday, Kat Banyard, [...]
Enough middle-class feminism
Metropolitan feminists, obsessed with the politics of strip clubs and lads’ mags, are failing to see the wider picture
By Carrie Hamilton [this article originally appeared here]
BBC Four’s recent three-part documentary Women was enough to make any seasoned feminist weep with despair. After sitting through the obligatory first instalment on celebrity second-wavers, and cringing through the [...]
Another Valentine’s Day Special from Feminist Fightback…
Sex, Work, and Sex Work: Building a feminist analysis and a feminist struggle
Sunday, 14th Feb,
4-7pm at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern St
London EC2A 3JL (nearest tube Old Street)
What does understanding sex work as labour bring to our analysis of prostitution? How might it change the way sex workers and feminists fight exploitation and violence? When [...]
Reclaim the Night: A space for all feminist?
The following text has been sent to the London Feminist Network, lead organisers of the 2009 London Reclaim the Night March:
On 21st Nov 09 Feminist Fightback went as part of a Red Umbrella contingent on the Reclaim the Night March in London. We joined RtN because we are committed to fighting violence against women, and [...]
Red Umbrella Contingent on Reclaim the Night March
Feminist Fightback and x:talk would like to carry on the tradition of marching together - as feminists and sex workers - on the annual Reclaim The Night March.
Our message will be ‘feminists need sex workers, just as sex workers need feminism’.
The Reclaim the Night March is Saturday 21st November - 6pm at [...]
Feminists Need Sex Workers, Just as the Sex Workers Movement Needs Feminism
:: talk given on behalf of Feminist Fightback for the Sex Worker Open University, 1st April 2009 ::
So in a forum like this, its probably stating the obvious to remind ourselves that many feminists are sex workers and sex workers are often feminists. Nevertheless, I think we would also all agree that, outside of this [...]
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 [...]