Press Action
London commuters were this morning surprised to find that their usual Metro paper was a bit thinner, yet more interesting and engaging, than usual.
Tens of thousands of copies of a spoof newspaper that looked very similar to the free daily were distributed at 20 busy tube stations around the capital during rush hour. Thousands more [...]
X-MSG: An investigation of social software and sexwork activism
X-MSG takes an unconventional approach to mobile phone technology in order to develop methods that sustain social formations and networks within the sex industry while exposing and subverting the values underlying the design of communication technologies.
Our research is founded on practical experiments with open source mobile telephony software informed by local knowledge from the sex [...]
x:talk collective meetings
the next x:talk collective meeting is scheduled for:
Monday 10 May at 6.30pm - 8.30pm (with drinks in the pub afterward)
venue is 5mins walk from Marble Arch tube
The x:talk project is a sex worker-led workers co-operative organised by a collective of sex workers, sex workers rights’, migrants’ rights, and feminist activists. The project is open for [...]
New Directions in Sex Research: examples from CAMBODIA
DEPTS OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY AND EDUCATION, GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE
ESRC YOUNG WOMEN, SEXUALITIES AND VULNERABILITIES PROGRAMME
5TH MAY 2010, RHB, ROOM 308, 3:30- 6PM,
FOLLOWED BY DRINKS IN THE BAR.
ALL WELCOME.
Please join us at Goldsmiths College, London, for an afternoon of presentations and dialogue focused on past and contemporary ‘new directions’ in sex research with examples from [...]
May Day 2010
London May Day march & rally in Trafalgar Sq.
This year one of the main speakers at the rally is Thierry Schaffauser - President of the IUSW / GMB Branch. Saturday May 1 - assemble 11:30am - Clerkenwell Green EC1 - the march will be led by GMB Sex Workers & Adult Entertainment Branch / [...]
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, [...]
Let sex workers advertise
by Thierry Schaffauser**
[this article originally appeared here.]
After calling for the criminalisation of sex workers’ clients, Julie Bindel is now calling for a ban on sex workers’ advertisements. This is quite ironic coming from a person who claims to be denied her freedom of speech when the trans community protests against what it considers transphobia. She [...]
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 [...]
On Sex Work
passed by the Greater London Labour Representation Committee
http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/
The criminalisation of those who work in the sex industry helps to divide the working class. It separates illegal workers from legal workers and drives people into clandestine situations where they face dangerous and exploitative conditions.
Moral panic over trafficking has created a smokescreen behind which the state has [...]
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 [...]