Collective for Sex Workers and Supporters in Taipei (COSWAS 1998 - )
A report by COSWAS
The Taipei Association of Licensed Prostitutes (TALPs) was formed in 1998 when the then Taipei City Mayor and later President of Taiwan, CHEN Shui Bian of the Democratic Progressive Party, banned licensed prostitution within 48 hours. The licensed prostitutes in Taipei organized themselves and protested publicly for the first time in Taiwanese history against the [...]
Sex workers organising and fighting back
A joint Workers’ Liberty / Labour Representation Committee fringe
meeting at Unison National Conference
Opposing motion 117, which support the “Swedish model” on prostitution
Speaker from the International Union of Sex Workers/GMB sex workers’ branch. Chaired by Alison Brown, recently elected to Unison Health Service Group Executive (pc)
6pm, Wednesday 16 June
Premiere Inn Hotel, Westbourne Road, Bournemout
Experience: I ran a brothel in a country village
This article originally appeared in the Guardian on 5 June 2010
Claire Finch: read other related posts here
Most people would think where I live is the last place you’d expect to find a brothel or massage parlour: a pretty bungalow in a quiet cul-de-sac of a sleepy Bedfordshire village. But I’ve run one from my home for the [...]
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 [...]
Prostitute wins court case
In a amazing victory, on 29 April 2010 in Luton Crown Court, Claire Finch was found not guilty of a criminal charge of keeping a brothel. The jury, in line with public opinion, refused to criminalise Ms Finch for working together with friends from her own home for safety. The jury of 8 men and [...]
MAIZ
maiz is an organisation by and for migrant women and was created out of the necessity for changes with regards to migrants’ living and work situation in Austria as well as in accordance with the strengthening of political and cultural participation.
In the knowledge of the legitimacy of our role as protagonists [...]
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 [...]
First they killed Susy, now Fernanda is dead.
Another sexual worker killed in Tlalpan
No authority to protect the lives of sex workers
The human rights system shows its opacity
Jaime Montejo’s Independent News Agency note-Calle, Mexico City, April 8, 2010
Some sex workers who have omitted their names for fear of reprisals, relate to the disappearance and subsequent murder of Fernanda, who worked at the intersection [...]
Copenhagen: seminar on the rescue industry and migration
great to see some of x:talk’s favourite sane people in the “trafficking” debate - teaming up for this seminar and … in the heart of Sweden. we like!
Managing vulnerability: The rescue industry and the struggles of female migrants
Danish Institute for International Studies - DIIS
Strandgade 56, 1401 Copenhagen
Open to the public
5 May 2010
1430 - 1700
Seminar with [...]
RACE, RACISM AND THE SEX INDUSTRY/SEX TRADES: special issue of $pread
more from the x:talk inbox …
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RACE, RACISM AND THE SEX INDUSTRY/SEX TRADES
For our summer issue, $pread is proud to host a guest editorial collective of US-based sex workers and allies of color. The issue will explore race and racism within the sex industry/sex trades in the United States. How [...]