Against homo-nationalism
Judith Butler turns down civil courage award from Berlin pride: ‘I must distance myself from this racist complicity’
x:talk fully endorses the struggle of queers of colour against homo-nationalism, racist and Islamophobic campaigns against homophobia. In our work and our activism for the rights of migrant sex workers we strongly argue against the use of emancipatory discourses [...]
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 [...]
Dear x:talk
We are the Nodo Solidale collective - Solidarity Knot, a grassroots group of activists based in Italy and Mexico. Our path is antifascist, antiracist, antisexist libertarian and independent from any party. Since a few years we have been working on building bridges of solidarity and cooperation together with the activists involved in anti authoritarian [...]
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
Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood Women on hunger strike
London Detainee Solidarity Network has called a picket of Serco’s London office (Serco manage Yarl’s Wood on behalf of UK Border Agency) in support of the Yarl’s Wood women hunger strikers.
Friday 12th February 2.30pm
Serco’s offices
18-22 Hand Court (off High Holborn),
London, WC1V 6JF.
Please distribute.
End the Detention of Foreign Nationals Now!
Source for this Message: Women behind the Wire @ Yarl’s Wood IRC
Since the 5th of February 2010, we the residents at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike which involves over 84 + women, who are protesting against the period of time spent in
detention and the treatment that they receive while being detained.
The [...]
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 [...]
Ongoing Debate about the Censorship of ‘Gay Imperialism’
You can access the xtalk statement on the censorship of ‘Gay Imperialism’ and Out of Place, a response by Peter Tatchell and read the ongoing debate here. We encourage interested folk to contribute their comments and opinions to this necessary forum.
‘Gay Imperialism: a proposito della censura di Out of Place al tempo della guerra [...]
On the censorship of ‘Gay Imperialism’ and Out of Place
We have recently witnessed the umpteenth attempt to silence voices that denounce paternalistic, neo-imperialist politics and argue against Islamophobic positions and homonationalist activism. On 7th September 2009, the book Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality (2008) edited by Adi Kunstman & Esperanza Miyake, was declared out of print by its publisher, Raw Nerve. The [...]