Posts Tagged ‘activism’

How to be an online sexuality rights activist – and get an interesting social life.  Intro: wvp. Book. Bi apple, Tony. Sx work. Spread/swa. Media training. Iwhc. Sex worker lit.   10 tips for people who want to get involved but arent sure how. Tactics not tools! The tools are up to you, there’s more [...]

Last fall a group of NYC based sex bloggers got their brains (and boobs) together to make a gorgeous pin-up calendar, which you can learn all about here. Sales of the calendar benefit Sex Work Awareness (SWA), a young advocacy organization that I co-founded with several former $pread staffers. SWA works to do public education [...]

By which I mean, my heart was broken by feminism, and now I’m working on healing it. I have other fractured parts of my heart too: some fixable, some persistent shards, but this isn’t about that. Over the past few years my relationship with feminism has been difficult and sometimes bordering on abusive (I would [...]

At the end of February, the International Women’s Health Coalition did an Advocacy in Practice training for fourteen youth sexual rights activists from around the world, in which we gave them tools and strategies to lobby at the United Nations during the Commission on the Status of Women (watch a video of three assessments of [...]

Along with some former $pread Magazine staff members, I’m the co-founder of Sex Work Awareness, an organization that works toward the destigmatization of sex workers. Our work is partly focused on creating better information and resources about sex workers for the public and for journalists. Our online project Sex Work 101 is the tip of [...]

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 [...]

Sex Work 101 was inspired by conversations that happened during the Women, Action and the Media 2008 conference held in Cambridge, MA from March 28-30, 2008. I gave a talk at WAM called Sex Workers and Media Representation (click to see notes for the workshop), and questions during and after the talk made me realize [...]

Since I was busy um, you know, talking, I didn’t live blog my talk. It went really well and no one was mean to me! My talk notes, with links to articles I talked about are here. And here’s Amber’s live blog of the talk: addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wakingvixen.com%2F2008%2F03%2F29%2Fsex-workers-and-media-representation-ambers-live-blog%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Sex+Workers+and+Media+Representation+%26%238211%3B+Amber%26%238217%3Bs+Live+Blog’; addthis_pub = ”;

Women, Action and the Media. March 28-30, 2008 in Cambridge, MA. Saturday, March 29th 4:00pm-5:30pm: Sex Workers and Media Representation Sex workers and the sex industry are frequent topics in the media, whether as the center of a sex scandal, the subject of an expose, or as the source of discussion around sexuality and morality. [...]

In between taking phone calls and doing CNN and all that stuff yesterday, I also had a bigger thing I was planning for: the inaugural fund raising event for Sex Work Awareness, a new non-profit started by some of the $pread staffers (myself included). The event was hosted at Arena Studios in SoHo, and was [...]