Sex workers do harm reduction: II from PJ Starr on Vimeo.
PJ Starr has been playing around with video as an activist tool for a while now – her work lives at Vimeo, a video site that a few other activists appear to be calling home as well. RH Reality Check, for one, has started to host all their videos on the site as well.
PJ’s latest work, Sex Workers Do Harm Reduction, is a great insight into the culture and tools of harm reduction as it relates to sex workers. From the video nerd perspective, this video is awesome because it presents interviews in an engaging way. Its pretty challenging to put together interviews in a way that is visually interesting – even really nice looking people sitting in front of a camera and talking can be boring. Also, she makes positive use of the din of the crowd behind whoever is speaking.
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On a not entirely different note, I wanted to point my media and press-inclined readers towards a really cool opportunity. The Women’s Media Center is offering a media training program called Progressive Women’s Voices. They are doing three cycles of the program in 2009 – the Deadline for the first cycle in December 15. Here’s some info – click the link above to get the full deal and request application materials. I would really really love to see some sexual health and sex worker rights advocates attend – that would be valuable personally, for the movement, and also as a way of connecting with women who work on other issues.
We are “changing the conversation” by making sure that there are plenty of qualified, authoritative, progressive women experts available to editors, reporters, producers, and bookers. For the women chosen to participate in our 2009 Progressive Women’s Voices program, we provide intense media training sessions in New York, with weekly follow-up briefings and continued training, as well as support and resources for media bookings.
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Thank you for telling me about PJ Starr’s work, I posted her photos of Mexico’s AIDS conference on my own site. And I’m interested in those media training sessions, but can people not living in the US apply?
Saludos, Laura
Border Thinking http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin