Desiree Alliance Conference Early Registration Extended to June 10!

Register now to lock in the early registration fee of $150….this includes meals and party!!!
~Desiree Alliance Presents~
In partnership with BAYSWAN, Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA, SWANK, H.I.P.S. Different Avenues, COYOTE, Best Practices Policy Project, $pread Magazine, St. James Infirmary, Harm Reduction Coalition, PONY, SWOP-Chicago, SWOP-Las Vegas, SWOP-Los Angeles, SWOP- Northern California, SWOP-Arizona, SWOP-Portland, & SWOP-EAST
“Pulling [...]

Harm Reduction Training Collaborative on; *Women, Drug Use and Trauma:*

Please distribute widely… Harm Reduction Training Collaborative on; *Women, Drug Use and Trauma:* *Successfully Addressing Women’s Issues in Recovery*
Date: *Friday, 06/06/08*
Time: *10am – 1pm*
Location: MATEC 1640 W. Roosevelt Rd , Chicago , IL
Trainer: Maureen Rule, CMHC, Program Coordinator, Tierra del Sol: Women’s Residential Recovery Program Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, Albuquerque [...]

Photographers/Videographers Needed for 2008 Desiree Alliance Conference in July

We are still looking for house photographers and videographers for this year’s Desiree Alliance conference July 16-21 in Chicago. If you are interested, please apply here.
All applicants will still need to register for the conference as well. Deadline for applications is May 31. We will notify you before June 15 if you have been chosen [...]

Sex Work vs. Trafficking: Understanding the Difference

 
Sex Work vs. Trafficking: Understanding the Difference
By Melissa Ditmore, RH Reality Check
http://www.alternet.org/story/84987/
Originally posted at RH Reality Check.
Even those who mean well sometimes confuse the human rights abuse of trafficking in persons with the human occupation of prostitution, or sex work. It’s understandable because of the history of the two fields, but it creates rather than [...]

Satisfied Sex Worker or Domestic Trafficking Victim?

 
By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet
Posted on May 8, 2008, Printed on May 18, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/84748/
A teenage girl from Chicago is being sexually abused by her mother’s string of boyfriends. So she flees home with a boyfriend of her own. They hit the road but run out of money, so the boyfriend shows her how to work the [...]

Article, LA Times Sunday- High Tech Hooking

LA Times Sunday- High Tech Hooking. I forgot to post this last month. There were 6 drive by shootings of non gang members in LA in the last 3 weeks and this is how the City utilizes it’s funds and limited resources.
LA Times, Sunday March 16,2008
L.A.’s streets move online
Modern call girls now turn their tricks [...]

Red Light District Chicago on Can-TV This Saturday!

SWOP-Chicago’s own television show, RedLightDistrictChicago will be airing this Saturday night, May 10 at 10PM and every Saturday night in May (17, 24) at 10PM on CAN-TV Channel 19 (Chicago Cable only). Check out episodes 1 and 2 which feature our on-the-street interviews about the Elliot Spitzer scandal and interviews from our Orgia party earlier [...]

Some men say using prostitutes is an addiction

Here’s a piece that unfortunately ignores the voices of sex workers and assumes, like the men “studied”, that sex workers are a faceless, voiceless commodity.-jane brazen
http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/chi-sex-trade-studymay06,0,7659645.story
 
Some men say using prostitutes is an addiction
200 take part in study about motivation
By David Heinzmann
Tribune reporter
 
May 5 2008, 11:27 PM CDT
 
As anti-prostitution groups try to thwart sex trade by [...]

The Pink Scare: Of Ms. Palfrey and Sex Panic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
Dylan Wolfe – Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank@riseup.net
Michael Bottoms – Sex Workers Outreach Project – New York City (SWOP-NYC),
swop.nyc@gmail.com
Susan Blake – Prostitutes of New York (PONY), pony@panix.com
Desiree Alliance, info@DesireeAlliance.org
The Pink Scare: Of Ms. Palfrey and Sex Panic
New York, NY – The activists at Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), Sex
Workers Outreach Project [...]

2008 Desiree Alliance Conference in Chicago-Registration is Open!

~Desiree Alliance Presents~
In partnership with BAYSWAN, Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA, SWANK, H.I.P.S. Different Avenues, COYOTE, Best
Practices Policy Project, $pread Magazine, St. James Infirmary, Harm Reduction Coalition, PONY, SWOP-Chicago,
SWOP-Las Vegas, SWOP-Los Angeles, SWOP- Northern California, SWOP-Arizona, SWOP-Portland, & SWOP-EAST
“Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work and Social Justice”
July 16-20, 2008 Chicago, IL
REGISTER NOW!
The Desiree Alliance is a [...]