Sex Worker Rights
Tara smiles at March in Mexico City!
Sex workers from across all continents, including most countries in Latin America, have come together in Mexico City prior to the International AIDS Conference to build community, increase sex worker visibility, and unify to demand recognition of sex worker rights as an integral part of HIV/AIDS work. Following on the great sex worker organizing that happened in Toronto at the last International AIDS Conference (IAC), activists are hoping that by coming together before the actual IAC sex workers will be better positioned to advance their messages and visibility, especially at a crucial time when new attacks on sex worker rights are happening in name of saving sex workers.
(Please follow this link to the AIDS2008 Blog where Darby posts!)
Their press release..
ON THE ISSUES: The Progressive Woman’s Magazine
Works Hard For Her Money: Feminists and Prostitutes
http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/july08/index.php
A print publication from 1983-1999, ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE ONLINE offers full archives and all content for free as a committed public service to upgrade the level of feminist conversation. Visitwww.ontheissuesmagazine.com
“NEW YORK: Prostitution penetrated the news in a major way in recent months — from ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of New York and his paid binges with women to the suicide of DC madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey and the Showtime fluff of “Secret Diary of A Call Girl”
But the media, politicians and feminists have not grappled with the real complexities of prostitutioni. In its new Online edition, “Works Hard for Her Money: Feminists and Prostitutes” ON THE ISSUESMAGAZINE releases compelling original content — diverse articles, art and poetry that challenge current notions and urge new thinking.
