Turkey’s sex workers seek to establish a union

Posted on behalf of Maxine Doogan Article Source ISTANBUL ­ Activists and sex workers in Turkey are working on a project to establish Turkey¹s first sex workers union. They are hopeful about finding a solution to their problems and changing society¹s approach toward sex workers. They will organize an awareness walk to bring attention to [...]

New Agency Bust

Here is the video When will they just leave adults to their own devices? When will ALL adults start fighting for the right to be left alone??

Join us at San Francisco Pride

Sex Workers will be representing at San Francisco Pride tomorrow!! If you are in the area, definitely fight the crowds and come meet up with us!! Also a bunch of Sex Workers have their own contingent in the Dyke March! Sex Workers Outreach Project will be hosting 2 booths, a Beer Booth and an Information Booth [...]

Sexism in Prosecution

So a woman and a man were caught by police while engaging in sex for goods (he offered her a case of chips in exchange for oral sex, to which she agreed). The woman got arrested, the man did not. The woman had her mug shot taken and released, and now published, the man did [...]

Alleged serial rapist of prostitutes caught

While we have heard and experienced awful stories about police, I have to commend the Atlanta police on this one. They are asking sex workers to come forward to help convict a serial rapist who targets sex workers, and they believe he is responsible for raping at least 6 women. They are promising to not [...]

Help get tranny-alert.com taken down!

Via gudbuytjane.livejournal.com, reposted from feministing Call for action: www.tranny-alert.com From www.tranny-alert.com . This is not just appropriative or transphobic, it directly threatens the safety and privacy of trans women: Our site cannot survive without your submissions! Spot a tranny or suspected tranny around town? See a hot tranny mess? Observe a guidette in New Jersey [...]

Sex Workers at Pride in San Francisco, today!

A message on San Francisco’s sex worker contingent at Pride: Please forward to all sex workers. Sex Workers Dyke March contingent will meet at 6:45pm on Sat the 27th on the corner of 18th and Dolores, directly to the side of the Dolores Park Cafe. Bring any signs, fabulousness, lovers and allies. Love, Sadie Lune

Kudos to COSWAS!

And our very own Tara was quoted! From Salon: Taiwan legalizes world’s oldest profession Score one for sex workers: Activists in Taiwan emerged victorious Wednesday after waging a long battle to legalize prostitution in their country. Six months from now, the nation’s 600,000 working girls (and guys) will be free to ply their trade without [...]

Yay for Michelle Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates

On a brighter note, we may have two celebrity spokespeople! Legalise prostitution: Michelle Pfeiffer 24 Jun 2009, 1558 hrs IST, ANI Michelle Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates want the U.S. Government to legalise prostitution. The two stars, who play historical hookers in Stephen Frears’ new period movie Cheri, are wondering why the ”world’s oldest profession” has [...]

Donna Hughes: Have tattooes? You don’t deserve respect.

I was pretty taken aback at the condescension dripping from Donna Hughes’s opinion piece below that appeared in the Providence journal. How on earth someone who is clearly repulsed by “certain” women can be involved in any Women’s Studies program in any university is way beyond me. 01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 [...]

Harm reduction and Human Rights (both) for Sex Work Plenary

I know some activists going to a harm-reduction conference called CLAT5 in Porto (Portugal) in the near future, where I’m to give a plenary talk at the opening session. The description of the conference in English: ‘Our aims for this event are to rethink – in a transnational way – the future of harm reduction and [...]

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.

A month ago, I was riding my Empowerment Vehicle (motorcycle) home from a friends house at 2AM one Sunday night.  I had a lapse in judgement, and ended up flying over the motorcycle, landing on pavement, sliding across an exit ramp, and landing in the bushes.  This obviously wasn’t planned, or wanted.  I have no [...]

Sex worker trafficking unlikely for 2010 Winter Olympics: report

Winter Olympics: report By Damian Inwood, Canwest News Service June 11, 2009 7:11 PMComments (2) posted on behalf of Maxine Doogan Human trafficking in the sex trade is unlikely to increase in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics, according to a new study released Thursday. But Tamara O’Doherty, head of the group that commissioned the [...]

No boost for sex trade as Olympics loom, says report

Posted on behalf of Maxine Doogan Sex industry-commissioned study debunks link between increased human trafficking, major sporting events By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun columnist June 11, 2009 The Sex Industry Worker Safety Action Group’s new report’s five recommendations are explicitly aimed at preventing human trafficking of women and men into prostitution and helping victims. There [...]

Donna Hughes and Criminalizing Prostitution

Posted on behalf of B. In her May 2, 2009 email, Professor Donna Hughes claims that criminalizing prostitution in Rhode Island will some how help victims of sex trafficking in the state. Despite what she says, Professor Hughes’ position amounts to a claim that the best way to help the victims of the crime of [...]

NY State Condom Legistlation CALL TO ACTION

The No Condoms Bill is before the Assembly for a vote and we urgently need you to call, email and fax your Assembymembers and let them know they should vote FOR bill A3856. It could come to a vote today or early next week! Thank you for all your support thus far! If you could [...]

Voices from Sex Workers.

I haven’t posted in a while, sometimes I’m afraid to post, sometimes I’m not sure *WHAT* to post, since this site has such a wide range, and sometimes I’m just to busy to post. But mostly, as the only transgendered woman author on this site, and not having the range of writing experiences all the [...]

Whore Lover: Sex Workers Queering Love

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 18th, 2009 – 8PM. Stories of romance in spite of social stigma, as told from both sides of the bed. Turns out it’s not actually true that sex workers are incapable of feeling love; or too generous, greedy, humiliated or gold-hearted to pursue it. Likewise, the city hosts hordes of [...]

Heat Index: Erotic Photography Exhibit

HEAT INDEX featuring Eric Kroll Richard Steele Cherrie Stabs Matthew Yates Rick Soloway Opening night, features a live art/bondage static performance. Rocket Gallery 270 E Congress Opening reception June 6th 2009, 7pm come on down! Runs through June.