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May 27, 2009
Speak Up! Media Training Materials as PDF
[image error] On April 18, 2009 Sex Work Awareness had our first Speak Up! Media Training for the Empowered Sex Worker in New York City. All the attendees got to take home a big packet of training materials, and now we’re making that 45 page manual available to the public with a Creative Commons license.
Here are some of the subjects covered in the PDF:
• Typical variations of mainstream media stories about the sex industry• Deciding to be part of a story
• Crafting your message
• Interview tips and tricks
• Wri
May 26, 2009
Human Sexuality Syllabus: My Attempt at College Teaching 2.0
Dudes, I have been busting my ass on making a super duper amazing (if I do say so myself) syllabus for the Human Sexuality lecture course I teach at Rutgers in Newark. This is the third semester I’m teaching the class, and I think this time around I’m really coming into my own.
Last summer, I co-taught the class with my amazing friend Ellen Friedricks. I spent that semester struggling with teaching in the biological sciences department with my humanities background, plus stressing about how the f
May 25, 2009
Events: Sex Worker Made Media
Sex worker culture is alive, well, and self-documenting. I’m proud to be a part of this thing we call a movement. In the next week and change there are some totally awesome events happening, expressions of sex workers and the media we’re making. Two here in NYC, one in San Francisco:
SCREENING: “In Our Own Image: Sex Worker Produced Media & The Story of $pread Magazine” 2009, Mandona Productions, 20 minutes
Wed. May 27th @ 7pm
Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen St. (btw Stanton & Rivington) in NY
$5 su
May 22, 2009
Week of 5/18 on Akimbo (International Women’s Health Coalition)
Here’s what we’ve been reading this week:
The United Nations launched a new website, Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, to focus on the empowering of women and girls; providing universal access to HIV prevention, care treatment and support; and engaging civil society in the HIV/AIDS response.
On Pandagon, Amanda Marcotte has an interesting post about some research being done in the UK that shows that the parents of daughters become more politically progressive.
Feministing has a long and upsett
May 20, 2009
Rhode Island is Close to Making Indoor Sex Work Illegal Again
As is being covered in the Providence Journal (link to page of search results on prostitution), legalized indoor prostitution is very likely to end soon in RI.
There is great, sex worker positive coverage of this issue on the Providence Daily Dose (thank you for the solidarity!).
Here is an email from Tara, the director of Happy Endings and writer of a great blog of the same name, a documentary about the legal indoor prostitution loophole in Rhode Island:
I was on the radio today, two stations for
May 15, 2009
This Week on Akimbo (International Women’s Health Coalition)
I realized this week that I’ve been totally lax in cross-posting stuff from Akimbo, the blog I edit for the International Women’s Health Coalition. I’ve started doing a weekly round-up post about what the communications team is reading and writing about over there, so I’m that cross-posting here. You should check out Akimbo in general because we are pretty awesome, and we post about a lot of sexual rights and health stuff in the international realm - stuff that no one else seems to be writing ab
May 14, 2009
Letter to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo RE: Craigslist
In New York State, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been waging an ongoing war against online prostitution. If you want to submit a letter to Andrew Cuomo, you can do so using this online form. If you’re in Connecticut, your Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is the guy you should be directing your attention to, which you can do by emailing his office at attorney.general@po.state.ct.us. These two men are the most active in speaking up about CL, but in other states its also appropriate to conta
May 13, 2009
PRESS RELEASE: “Erotic Services” Denied: Craigslist and Attorneys General Are Putting Sex Workers At Risk
This is a collaborative press release - please distribute and repost widely!
Contact:
Dylan Wolfe - Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank@riseup.net
Will Rockwell - $pread Magazine, will@spreadmagazine.org
Audacia Ray - Sex Work Awareness (SWA), aray@sexworkawareness.org
Susan Blake - Prostitutes of New York (PONY), pony@panix.com
Michael Bottoms - Sex Workers Outreach Project - New York City (SWOP-NYC), info@swop-nyc.org
With Craigslist’s recent announcement that its Erotic Services category
