Proposition K in San Francisco calls for the city to end the harmful practice of arrest-based approaches to sex work. Sex workers and supporters are the major driving force behind this ballot initiative and the ‘Yes on K‘ team is working hard to ensure that sex workers’ voices are heard during the election. We need [...]
Third Unitarian Church- 10.26.08
SWOP-Chicago’s own Jasmine will be speaking at a forum held by Third Unitarian Church this Sunday morning (10.26.08) at 10 am. She will be discussing consensual sex work and industry self-regulation. The church’s site is here and includes directions on how to get there. Come on out and support her!
SWOP-Chicago will be At “Faster, Pussycat! Kill!Kill!” Screening on October 29
Come visit SWOP-Chicago’s table at the screening of Russ Meyer’s classic movie “Faster Pussycat! Kill!KIll!” next Wednesday, October 29 at the Music Box Theatre. This screening will also fetaure star Tura Satana live in person an a performance from Michelle L’Amour. Tickets are $12 and show starts at 8PM.
Visit SWOP’s table and get some of [...]
Outreach Training this Saturday
On Saturday Oct 18th, SWOP will be holding a training downtown at 3pm for anyone interested in doing joining our street outreach team. We will go over some important information about crisis management and talk about our approach. We’ll talk about how to handle difficult situations (should they arise), how we will deal with harassment, [...]
The Price of Pleasure: Alrighty, then…
(I originally posted this on my blog but since I attended the screenings officially as a member of SWOP-Chicago, I am putting it here as well.)
To use Serpent’s phrase, the “SWOP posse” (hey, we can put that on a t-shirt, Serpent!) viewed “The Price of Pleasure” this weekend at two separate venues in Chicago: DePaul [...]
