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 [...]
Barcelona: Genera
Genera es una organización sin fines de lucro que busca la redefinición de los roles sociales desde una perspectiva de género a través de la defensa y reivindicación de los derechos de las mujeres partiendo del ámbito del trabajo sexual.
(Genera is a nonprofit organisation that seeks to redefine social roles from a gender perspective through [...]
Sex Workers Say ‘No To Criminalisation’
:: FRANÇAIS ::
On 31 March 2009, sex workers and our allies held a successful SPEAK OUT at the Eros Fountain, Piccadilly Circus against criminalisation and for labour rights for everyone who works in the sex industry. At 2.30pm, we took over one of the streets, bringing traffic to a standstill at Piccadilly Circus and unveiled [...]
Speak Out + Stand Up for Sex Worker Rights
Download the poster here
Tuesday 31 March
2pm at the Eros Fountain, Piccadilly Circus
Bring your red umbrellas
Workers in the sex industry and their allies are speaking out against the Policing and Crime Bill.
This Bill will further criminalise those of us in the sex industry in the UK, whether we work by CHOICE, CIRCUMSTANCE or COERCION. It criminalises [...]
Madrid Sex Worker Fashion Show
In the spirit of building networks and links across borders.. some news and links to sex worker organisations in Spain (both websites are in Spanish).
Trabajosexual
Colectivo Hetaira
And some great photo’s from a sex worker action in Madrid ‘Pararela Lumi Fashion’- a sex work fashion show.
Imágenes del desfile organizado por el Colectivo Hetaira para reinvindicar los derechos [...]
Speak Out + Stand Up for Sex Worker Rights
Tuesday 31 March
2pm at the Eros Fountain, Piccadilly Circus
Bring your red umbrellas
Workers in the sex industry and their allies are speaking out against the Policing and Crime Bill.
This Bill will further criminalise those of us in the sex industry in the UK, whether we work by CHOICE, CIRCUMSTANCE or COERCION. It criminalises our clients, increases [...]
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 [...]
Make a Date with Feminists
On Saturday 14 February, Feminist Fightback and other feminist groups and organisations will hold
GENDER, RACE AND CLASS
ANTI-CAPITALIST FEMINIST CONFERENCE
xtalk will be speaking at the workshop ‘Trafficking: myths, morals and migrants’ with other sex workers organisations.
From the Gender, Race & Class website:
‘We are committed to an anti-capitalist feminism which sees the interconnections between all struggles [...]
5TH QUEERBEOGRAD FESTIVAL
on the agenda: Direct Action + Antifascism
18 - 21st Sept 2008
Belgrade, Serbia
www.queerbeograd.org
What does it mean to take action, to take responsibility to actively create the conditions for our own existence? How do we negotiate this with the society around us? How do we shape our own societies so that our actions form and inform the [...]
A MILLION WOMEN RISE MARCH 2008
post-script: this text appeared as a leaflet which was distributed at the Million Women Rise March 2008 in London
Today, we march alongside women on the Million Women Rise March with solidarity and respect. We are energised and excited to be a part of a rising tide of feminist activism. We are here to march and [...]