Join us for the Second Annual Sex Worker Cabaret on Sunday, June 12, 2011!

Sex workers take the stage to tell their diverse stories through performance, narrative, puppetry, burlesque, comedy and more. This event starts with a curated selection of video works about sex work around the globe, and then features an all-star lineup of eleven performers.

Producers Sarah Jenny and Damien Luxe are proud to present this Sunday 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 takes place during LGBTQ Pride month, a time to reflect on the importance of community. Come listen to tales of self-determination, and bear witness to survival and celebration as sex workers eloquently — and at times raunchily — speak their truths.

With MCs Sarah Jenny and Damien Luxe and DJ Sirlinda!

WHEN: Sunday, June 12, 2011
TIME: DOORS @ 7:30PM, VIDEOS @ 8PM SHOW @ 8:30PM
TICKETS: $12 in adv. or $15 at the door (Click here to purchase tickets online.)
WHERE: Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St., Brooklyn, NY

For more information, please visit www.sexworkercabaret.com

From the Sex Workers Project:

Hello all,

We just discovered that Council Member Jessica Lappin has introduced a New York City Council resolution in support of our bill! http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=853106&GUID=22329998-92ED-43B1-9DC8-F2AD87EE50BB&Options&Search

The most helpful thing people can do is CALL THEIR COUNCIL MEMBERS and ask them to SIGN ONTO THE RESOLUTION (Res 0710-2011).

This is a quick and easy thing you can do today to support sex workers!

1) find your council member here: http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml.

2) Call their Legislative Office

3) Tell who answers your name, and that you are a constituent

4) Ask to speak to the Legislative Staff

5) Say you would like your Council Member to sign onto Res 0710, introduced by Councilmember Jessica Lappin

• This resolution supports bill S323/A1008 in the New York State Legislature
• This bill would prohibit condoms from being used as evidence of prostitution
• This bill promote public health by making sure everyone can carry condoms without worrying it could lead to arrest or conviction.
• Condoms are regularly confiscated by police, leading to higher risk for pregnancy, HIV, and STD’s among vulnerable populations.
• This impacts public health initiatives distributing condoms to at-risk populations.
• This bill has a broad list of supporters, including the Public Health Association of New York City, GMHC, Planned Parenthood, the NYCLU, the LGBT Center, and many other organizations.
• Leave your name and phone number, in case the Council Member has any questions.

Please let us know if you are able to make a call!

For more info about the bill – please click here: http://www.sexworkersproject.org/campaigns/2011/new-york-condom-bill/

SWP No Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution PSA from Mandona Productions on Vimeo.

Facebook Invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163814787003388

In recognition of March 3^rd, International Sex Worker Rights Day, the Columbia University School of Social Work’s Feminist Caucus, Queer Caucus & Men’s Caucus, in collaboration with the PROS Network (Providers & Resources Offering Services to Sex Workers), presents…

BEST CLINICAL PRACTICES & POLICIES
FOR SEX WORKER POPULATIONS

• 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

Moderator and Keynote Speaker: Marion Riedel, Ph.D., LCSW, Associate Professor, 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. No registration necessary.

For more info, email prosnetworknyc@gmail.com.

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
  • Andrea Ritchie, Peter Cicchino Youth Project and Streetwise & Safe (SAS)
• 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: Audre Lorde Project, Counterpublic Collective, FIERCE, MADRE, 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

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