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February 12th, 2011 — events, training
Columbia University School of Social Work
Feminist Caucus | Queer Caucus | Men’s Caucus
in collaboration with
PROS Network (Providers & Resources Offering Services to Sex Workers) presents…
BEST CLINICAL PRACTICES & POLICIES WORKING WITH SEX WORKER POPULATIONS
Facebook Invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163814787003388
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011
8:00 – 9:30PM
1255 Amsterdam Ave, Room C03
Learn about the “No Condoms as Evidence” Bill, How to be Competent and Sensitive Providers to a Population on the Margins, Harm Reduction Strategies for Effective Engagement
*This event is being held in recognition of March 3rd: International Sex Worker Rights Day!
CUSSW FACULTY MODERATOR: Marion Riedel, Associate Professor at CUSSW
Guest Speakers:
- Johannah Westmacott, Coordinator for Trafficked Minors, Safe Horizon Streetwork Project
- Stephen Crowe, Managing Director of Holistic Community Healthcare Services, Harlem United Community AIDS Center
- Andriana Ongoiba, Counselor/Advocate, Sex Workers Project
Refreshments provided. This event will be videotaped and recorded.
For more info, email prosnetworknyc@gmail.com or visitwww.prosnetworknyc.org
February 7th, 2011 — events
When: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 7pm-9pm
Where: Judson Memorial Church *side entrance* – 243 Thompson St, downstairs. New York, NY
Closest Subways: B/D/F/V/A/C/E to Washington Square Park and the N/R to 8th Street-NYU.
RSVP (Optional) on our Facebook Event Page.
SWOP-NYC and SWANK invite all current/former sex workers and our allies/friends/families of all ages to join us for the third annual community potluck to celebrate the International Day for Sex Workers’ Rights. Celebrate the struggle and accomplishments in the arena of sex workers rights by coming together to eat, drink, and participate in various creative activities (including poster-making and poetry-writing) to commemorate this important day. You can also participate in the Sex Worker Zine Project at the event!
Cost: FREE. Please bring food or drink to share to share, if you are able.
February 4th, 2011 — events
This year’s Sex Worker Cabaret will include video work much like 2009′s Pay As You Go: An Evening of Sex Worker Short Films (produced by Audacia Ray & Sarah Jenny). Last year’s event was a huge success and plans are in the works for the second annual Sex Worker Cabaret, to be held in June 2011 in New York City.
About the Cabaret:
Sex workers take the stage to tell their diverse stories through burlesque, comedy, narrative, contortion, aerial performance, and more. Producers Sarah Jenny and Damien Luxe are proud to present an evening cabaret showcasing some of the most vibrant creative talent in the sex worker community. The cabaret is in homage to Annie Oakley’s Sex Workers Art Show (1997-2009) and will take place during LGBTQ Pride month, a time to reflect on the importance of community. Come bare witness as sex workers eloquently, and at times raunchily, speak their truths.
November 28th, 2010 — events, SWANK, SWOP-NYC
Join us for a vigil and community speak out
When: Friday, December 17, 2010 at 7:30PM – 9:30PM
Where: Metropolitan Community Church of New York, Sanctuary (2nd floor), 446 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018 btw 9th & 10th Aves. < http://bit.ly/dUenDt >
Who: Current & former sex workers, our allies, friends, families, and communities. This event is free and open to the public.
Join us in observing the 7th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
Join us in remembering those we’ve lost to violence, oppression and hate, whether perpetrated by clients, partners, police or the state.
We stand against the cycle of violence experienced by sex workers around the world. Recently in Geneva, the United Nations Human Rights Council reviewed the human rights record of the United States during their Universal Periodic Review. Uruguay’s recommendation to the Obama Administration – to address “the special vulnerability of sexual workers to violence and human rights abuses” – is the moral leadership we have been waiting for!
Join us in solidarity to fight the criminalization, oppression, assault, rape and murder of sex workers – and of folks perceived as sex workers.
December 17, 2003 was our first annual day to honor the sex workers who were murdered by serial killer Gary Ridgway. In Ridgway’s own words, “I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.” (BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3245301.stm)
We come together each year to show the world that the lives of marginalized people, including those of sex workers, are valuable.
- Speakers:
- Audacia Ray, Red Umbrella Project & Sex Work Awareness
- Chelsea Johnson-Long, Safe OUTside the System Collective of the Audre Lorde Project
- Michael J. Miller, The Counterpublic Collective and PROS Network
- Readings
- Reading of the names of sex workers we have lost this past year
- Memorial for Catherine Lique by her daughter Stephanie Thompson and read by Sarah Jenny Bleviss
- Speak out: Bring poetry, writings or just speak your truth.
Light snacks, beverages, and metrocards will be provided.
The red umbrella has become an important symbol for Sex Workers’ Rights and is increasingly used on December 17: “First adopted by Venetian sex workers for an anti-violence march in 2002, red umbrellas have come to symbolize resistance against discrimination for sex workers worldwide.”
This event is co-sponsored by: Anti-Violence Project, Audre Lorde Project, Babeland, Counterpublic Collective, FIERCE, MADRE, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Peter Cicchino Youth Project, The Queer Commons, PONY (Prostitutes of New York), PROS Network, Red Umbrella Project, SAFER, Sex Work Awareness, Sex Workers Project, SWANK (Sex Workers Action New yorK), SWOP-NYC (Sex Workers Outreach Project), the Space at Tompkins, and Third Wave Foundation.
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110788105658599
For events outside of New York, visit: http://www.swop-usa.org/dec17
September 22nd, 2010 — events
When: Saturday, October 2nd at 2pm – 7pm
Where: Excelsior Bar, 390 Fifth Avenue at 6th St., Brooklyn, NY
Who: SWOP-NYC (Sex Workers Outreach Project)
SWANK (Sex Workers’ Action New yorK)
PROS Network (Providers & Resources Offering Services to Sex Workers)
PONY (Prostitutes of New York)
SWA (Sex Work Awareness)
& Our Friends, Families, and Allies!
Come join us for an afternoon of casual cocktails (cash bar) and snacks (free) for current/former sex workers / those in the sex trade and those serving sex worker populations. If you are interested in the safety, health, and well being of those in the sex trade, this event is for you! Learn about projects serving sex workers in New York and share your own.
Whether you come to network or socialize, the atmosphere is informal and if the weather is nice, there will also be a backyard open.
Hope to see you there!
See the event on Facebook!
June 1st, 2010 — events
Sunday, June 6th at 7pm
The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St, New York, NY
Doors: 7pm & Performances: 7:30pm to 10pm
Tickets at the door: $10 – $20 sliding scale
Ages: 21+
Sex Worker Cabaret on Facebook
Sex Worker Cabaret Official Website
Sex workers take the stage to tell their diverse stories through burlesque, comedy, narrative, contortion, aerial performance, and more. Producers Sarah Jenny and Rachel Grinstein are proud to present an evening cabaret showcasing some of the most vibrant creative talent in the sex worker community. The cabaret is in homage to Annie Oakley’s Sex Workers Art Show (1997-2009) and will take place during LGBTQ Pride month, a time to reflect on the importance of community. Come bare witness as sex workers eloquently, and at times raunchily, speak their truths.
The Sex Worker Cabaret will take place on Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 7pm at the Slipper Room located at 167 Orchard Street, New York, NY. The event will be MCed by Go Magazine’s 2010 Readers Choice Award “Best MC” winner Sarah Jenny and DJed by DJ Sirlinda (Hey Queen!, Rumours, Gayface). Go-go dancers Calvin Clamdigger, Essence Revealed, and Violet Noxx will grace the stage during intermission.
With Performances by:
ANNABELLE XAAH
Annabelle Xaah is a Renaissance whore, who likes swinging from ropes, naked, singing and playing the mandolin. Her performance entails rope-swinging burlesque with original badass beats.
BUSTY KITTEN
Busty Kitten is a theatrical know-it-all, muse, and barstool philosopher with a feminist bent. She will perform a series of monologues and a burlesque routine about lap dancing.
ESSENCE REVEALED
Essence is a dual degreed, former lap dance engineer of the upscale gentlemen’s club scene, from NY to Vegas and sweet, sticky places in between. Essence innovates a dance form she calls “stripperlesque” in an excerpt from the finale of her solo show, Essence Revealed.”
GERRY VISCO
Gerry Visco is an illegally blonde writer, performer, photographer, and fashionista, who regularly covers events and the arts for New York Press.
INBRED HYBRID COLLECTIVE WITH LOGAN STEVENS
Inbred Hybrid Collective’s mandate is to stimulate a consciousness of the external factors affecting our human existence. Inbred Hybrid Collective will perform a musical conversation between hustlers in Times Square.
JODI SH. DOFF
How did a nice Jewish girl wind up spending a decade naked in Times Square? Writer Jodi Sh. Doff presents a peek from her one woman show.
LORELEI LEE
Lorelei Lee is a student, writer, and porn performer based in Brooklyn. She will read a work of autobiographical fiction.
LYDIA LOVE
Lydia Love mixes movement and spoken-word into performances of sincerity and sensuality. With candidness and complexity, Lydia will perform dance and spoken-word.
MATTHEW LAWRENCE
Matthew Lawrence is a writer and curator from Providence, Rhode Island. He will tell tales of why he wasn’t a very good escort.
April 6th, 2010 — events
Celebrate Sex Worker Pride this June at the Sex Worker Cabaret on June 6th at the Slipper Room!
We are looking for cabaret acts for an early evening (7pm-10pm) of burlesque, performance art, readings, comedy, and musical acts.
Diversity encouraged! All genders, bodies, ages, and talents welcome to apply. Please submit a short proposal about the type of act or number you’d be interested in doing. If we don’t know one another, please send a link to your website, facebook, etc or a photo.
We are currently looking for proposals that would be, on some level, about sex work: whether it be a story about your favorite client, a burlesque number to She Works Hard For the Money, or a more abstract interpretation. Preference is given to current/former sex workers (self-defined) but we are also considering submissions from allies, partners of workers, etc.
Compensation: This is a benefit for…you! Some overhead costs need to be covered but after that, all money received from the door will be pooled and split among the performers based on the number of acts they do. (Each act is a share in the pool with a max of 2 acts per performer.) We ask that you help promote as the more people we bring in, the more money for the performers.
We are also looking for gogo dancers who would be compensated in tips. You can perform and gogo.
Please forward to anyone you think might like to be a part of this very special evening.
Deadline: Please submit your proposal by April 7th.
Questions? Contact: Sarah Jenny – sarahjenny@gmail.com
Promoters: Sarah Jenny & Rachel G.
March 23rd, 2010 — events, SWANK, SWOP-NYC
Join the Silver SSW for a special event that is free and open to the public:
Best Clinical Practices and Policies for Sex Workers
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Kimmel Center, Room 805
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=363773935307&index=1
Description:
The Spring 2010 Pride in Practice Identity/Expression Education Series
with The Office of LGBT Student Services and PROS Network
“Best Clinical Practices and Policies for Sex Workers”
-Learn About the “No Condoms As Evidence” Bill.
-How to be Competent, Sensitive Clinicians to a Population on the Margins.
-Find Out Which Providers, Resources, Organizations, and Agencies are Sex Worker-Friendly.
Moderator and Key Note Speaker:
Jo Rees, Adjunct Lecturer, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Guest Speakers:
Crystal DeBoise, Sex Workers Project, PROS Network;
Stephen Crowe, FROST’D, PROS Network;
Johannah Westmacott, Streetwork Project, PROS Network
March 23rd, 2010 — events
PARADIGM SHIFT: NYC’S FEMINIST COMMUNITY Proudly Presents
SEX WORK & HUMAN RIGHTS: FEMINIST ADVOCACY STRATEGIES
Panel Discussion & Screening Featuring:
SIENNA BASKIN, Esq.
Staff Attorney, Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center
CHRISTINA CICCHELLI
Columnist, $pread magazine
MARYSE MITCHELL-BRODY
Co-Founder, Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK)
AUDACIA RAY
International Women’s Health Coalition & co-founder of Sex Work Awareness
WILL ROCKWELL
Editor, $pread magazine
Screening of “Sangram: Sex Worker Organizing In India” a collaboration between the International Women’s Health Coalition and SANGRAM
moderated by Melissa Gira Grant, External Relations Officer, Third Wave Foundation & freelance writer
Portion of the proceeds donated to Sex Workers’ Project
Buy Tickets Now- Limited Seating- This will sell-out- CLICK HERE
Network with your community before & after discussion
When: TUES, March 30th
Time: 7:00-10:00 pm
Where: In the heart of the Feminist District
The Tank- 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Ave.)
Subway directions: Take the A,C,E to 42nd Street/Time Square. Walk West
Cost: $7 students/pre-paid, $10 at door
More Info & Advanced Tickets here!
March 23rd, 2010 — events, SWANK, SWOP-NYC
May TBA for SWANK/SWOP-NYC members: Opioid Overdose Responder Training
Spring TBA for SWANK/SWOP-NYC members: Sustainable Self-Care Retreat (Tentative)
June 6th for everyone: Sex Worker Cabaret Show
