A Review of the New York ‘Pay As You Go: Sex Worker Shorts’ Film Fest
by Heidi Hoefinger*
On a rainy Saturday night in Brooklyn (October 24, 2009), sex workers, allies, activists, academics and media makers got together for a New York sex worker film festival titled ‘Pay As You Go: Sex Worker Shorts.’ Hosted by Union Docs—a public space for non-fiction projects—and curated by activists and media makers, Audacia Ray [...]
FREE ENGLISH CLASSES
ENGLISH :: FRANÇAIS :: ITALIANO :: CASTELLANO :: RUSSIAN :: THAI :: SRBIJA-HRVATSKA-BOSNA :: DEUTSCH :: PORTUGUES :: POLSKI
Analysis - the xtalk blog
Praxis: creating change / causing trouble
Events & news
Categories
Archives
Tags
AIDS art Australia Austria Berlin Brasil Cambodia Canada censorship classes condoms deportation ethics Europe feminism films France gender Greece human rights India interventions labour law London media meetings Mexico migration networks New York praxis protest queer race red umbrella research sex work solidarity Sweden Thailand trafficking UK unions violenceABOUT X:TALK
The x:talk project is a space to organise and empower workers in the sex industry and to encourage critical interventions around the issues of MIGRATION, GENDER and LABOUR.
The site is arranged around three themes: ANALYSIS - the x:talk blog, PEDAGOGY - free English Classes for migrant sex workers and PRAXIS - creating change and causing trouble.
The project is a conscious effort to develop a practical and needed service and ultimately hopes to build political alliances and strengthen migrant sex worker networks.