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 [...]
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 [...]
The Other Swedish Model
Laura María Agustín has opened up a column on The Local, a Swedish media site in English, called The Other Swedish Model. The introductory post is:
The pleasures of dissent: Not?
At a drinks reception not long ago I referred nonchalantly to the fact
that Sweden is supposedly the world’s most gender-equal state. A
shiver was felt; eyes rolled. [...]
UK Premiere screening of “Understanding Trafficking”
plus Q&A with the director Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti
Monday 16th November, 2009 Goldsmiths Cinema
(Richard Hoggart Building, New Cross, SE14)
::part of Cinema Typhoon::
Legend goes, there is a magical line that Laxman drew around Sita, which no woman is supposed to cross.
If any woman dared to cross the magical line, she would risk being kidnapped by Ravan the [...]
Forget the propaganda and hear the evidence
Public Meeting
Forget the propaganda and hear the evidence on rape, trafficking and prostitution
6-7pm Monday 2 November
Committee Room 3A
House of Lords
Enter through St Stephen’s entrance
The day before the final debate on the prostitution clauses in the PCB, please join us in a discussion of the evidence. Whatever your views on the sex industry, women’s [...]
The Guardian: Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic
This article appeared on The Guardian website on Tuesday 20 October 2009.
Nick Davies
There is something familiar about the tide of misinformation which has swept through the subject of sex trafficking in the UK: it flows through exactly the same channels as the now notorious torrent about Saddam Hussein’s weapons.
In the story of UK sex trafficking, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Trafficking: it’s about migration - stupid!
10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT TRAFFICKING IN THE SEX INDUSTRY
1] THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A WORKING DEFINITION OF TRAFFICKING
Despite having pumped millions of £s into the Poppy Project and other anti-trafficking initiatives over the past 5 years, the UK government does not have a clear definition of trafficking [more info].
2] SEX WORKERS’ OPINIONS ARE [...]
Sex Traffic at the ICA
These days it seems you cant move an inch without running into something or someone debating trafficking in the sex industry. The latest event to spark the interest of x:talk is ‘Sex Traffic’ on 11 March 2009 at the ICA. The speakers line up has sex workers, advocates and activists (ignoring the one cop) from [...]
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