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Conference
Note: The deadline
for proposals and scholarships has passed.
Contact us if you have
further questions.
Register
for the conference now and receive the early registration discount!
http://www.desireealliance.org/conference/Registration.htm
Note: The deadline
for proposals and scholarships has passed.
Contact us if you have
further questions.
5th National Desiree Alliance
Conference
The Audacity of Health: Sex Work, Health, and Politics
July 14th to 19th, 2013 • Las Vegas, Nevada
Desiree Alliance organizes conferences to provide
leadership and create space for sex workers and supporters to
come together to advocate for human, labor and civil rights for
all workers in the sex industry.
Sex workers have long been at the forefront of of promoting health
and safety, from peer-based sex education, to creating clinics,
to organizing 'bad date' lists and more. Health and safety is
central to sex work in so many different ways, as we strive towards
healthy, safe workplaces, emotional health, healthy relationships
within and outside of sex work, healthy attitudes, healthy laws
and policies and more. The 2013 Desiree Alliance conference will
focus on all forms of health in our lives and in our communities.
The Desiree Alliance conference is a forum for people who have
experience in sex work and sex trade and allies of sex workers.
Sex work includes working as an exotic dancer, hustler, webcam
model, street-based sex worker, massage worker, escort, prostitute,
tantric practitioner, sexological bodyworker, living with the
support of a sugar-daddy or a sugar-mama, having sex for housing
/ food / clothing, drugs, or having sex to get the money needed
to survive. Our membership base is made up of current and former
sex workers as well as activists that do not identify as sex workers
themselves, but advocate for sex worker rights. Desiree Alliance
is made up of women, men, LGBTQI persons, transgender persons,
herm-identity, Other, hetero, etc., and many of our members are
from (non) working class, low and middle income backgrounds.
The Desiree Alliance 2013 conference includes 5 tracks:
1. Academics and Policy 2. Activism 3. Arts, Entertainment and Media 4.
Business Development and 5. Harm Reduction and Outreach. We are open to
all sex work related proposals, and specifically welcome all submissions
and proposals having to do with these general concepts: sex worker art,
culture, and creative endeavors; positive aspects of sex work; harms that
result from bad or shortsighted policies; and benefits of current sex
worker-friendly policies. Contributors may be sex workers, academics,
and anyone else interested in contributing. We are eager to receive proposals
from sex workers themselves (you do not have to publicly self-identify),
people of color, migrants, and all genders. We are accepting proposals
from presenters until April 1st, 2013 (note
extended deadline). Visit http://www.desireealliance.org/conference/CFP.htm
for applications and instructions.
Desiree Alliance is committed to bring diversity that aims to
provide safe spaces for the most marginalized to the least marginalized
sex worker, providing education, networking, and alliance-building
opportunities regardless of socio-economic status, color, sexuality,
sexual identity, culture, class, race, religion, physical or mental
capabilities, gender, gender identities, age, size, political
beliefs, or immigrant status.
Register
now to receive the early registration discount!
Although our funds are limited this year,
some scholarships will be available.
Scholarship information will be posted here: http://www.desireealliance.org/conference/logistics.htm#scholar
For further information call
(702) 701-0055 or email info@desireealliance.org.
 Donate*
to our 2013Conference!
We are
a fiscally sponsored nonprofit project for Social
and Environmental Entrepreneurs so we can receive
tax-deductible contributions.*
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Donate
to the
Desiree Alliance Conference Scholarship
Fund
through PayPal
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Contribute to the Scholarship
Fund to assist with Desiree's commitment to social
justice, inclusion and leadership for all sex workers
from the most to least marginalized among us. These
social justice efforts are central to Desiree's
mission and to the sex worker movement in general.
ANY amount is greatly appreciated as a token of
your support for social justice in the sex workers
movement.
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Donate
to the
Desiree Alliance Conference
General Fund
through PayPal
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We greatly appreciate all contributions
of any amount. As you can imagine producing a national
conference is very expensive, Our registration fees
are very low to encourage attendance from diverse
communities, so we rely on the support of volunteers
and contributors like you.Thank you so much for
supporting the Desiree Alliance 2013 Conference!
Desiree Alliance Leadership
The Desiree Alliance has been extremely busy in this last year
restructuring our organization from within. We are pleased to
announce our Strategic Committee members. The Strategic Committee
(SC) was selected to assist leadership in organizational and conference-planning
decisions of the Desiree Alliance. We strongly feel that these
individuals collectively exhibit solid representations of the
organization's mission for an all-inclusive member-base. Please
welcome these fantastic activists who by coming together in the
best interests of Desiree, assures that the future of the organization
remains true to our social justice principles.
Introducing:
Bhavana Nancherla Desiree Alliance & SWOP
NY
Juba Kalakma Deep Dickollective; PeaceOUT Homohop
Festival and Multi-layered Activist
Melissa Sontag-Broudo Consulting Att'y for Sex
Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center
Penelope Saunders Best Practices Policy Project
Sandy Guillame Desiree Alliance & Harm Reduction
Advocate
Alternates:
Jill McCracken Desiree Alliance, SWOP USA
Deon Haywood Women With A Vision WWAV- New Orleans
Consultant:
Carol Leigh BAYSWAN- SF
Conference planning time is here! We will be seeking volunteers
to help plan and coordinate our July 2013 conference. Please email
Sharmus if you are interested in volunteering volunteer@desireealliance.org
Please add "Sharmus-Conference volunteer"
in the subject line.
We are seeking grant writers and fundraisers to help us prepare
for the conference. Interested people can email director@desireealliance.org
Please add "Grant Writer-Fundraiser"
in the subject line.
In Solidarity,
Sharmus & Cris
Sponsors and Supporters of Desiree
Alliance
Desiree Alliance, along with our
sponsors and supporters,
is pleased to announce the 5th National Sex Worker Conference
The
Audacity of Health:
Sex Work, Health and Politics
Las
Vegas, Nevada, July 14th to 19th, 2013
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Desiree Sponsors
have included:
BAYSWAN,
Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP),
Center
for Sex and Culture (CSC),
Erotic Heritage Museum,
Harm Reduction Coalition,
International
Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education
(ISWFACE),
Progressive Leadership Alliance Nevada (PLAN),
St. James Infirmary,
Sex Work Awareness,
SWOP USA,
SWOP Tucson,
SWOP LV,
SWOP Chicago, SWOP NorCal, SWOP Santa Cruz,
The Sex Workers Project,
Sin City Chamber of Commerce (SCCC),
$pread Magazine |
Our supporters:
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Past
conferences |
| 2010
"Working Sex: Power, Practice, and Politics"
July 25th to 30th, Las Vegas,
Nevada
Conference
2010 :: CFP
2010
Schedule
2010 :: Speakers'
List 2010
Logistics 2010 |
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2008
"Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work,
and Social Justice"
July 16-20, Chicago
Conference
2008 :: CFP
2008
Schedule
2008 :: Speakers'
List 2008
Logistics 2008
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| 2007
"Sex Work: Culture, Policy, and Benefits;
Exploring the Lives of Sex Workers and their Diverse Realities"
July 14-27, San Francisco
Convergence 2007 :: CFP
2007
Schedule 2007 ::
Speakers' List 2007
Logistics
2007 |
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The
Desiree Alliance conference organizers are committed to support
for representation and inclusiveness of cultural, racial, economic,
age, and gender identity. Please read our Diversity
Statement and join our efforts to build a respectful, diverse,
and strong sex worker movement.
We
are a fiscally sponsored nonprofit project for Social and Environmental
Entrepreneurs so we can receive tax-deductible contributions.*
You can also donate by visiting the link below. It's
important to ensure that you type in "Desiree Alliance" as the
project name when filling out your credit card information.
https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@www.saveourplanet.org/ssl/Donate.html
Your credit card statement will only say "Social and Environmental
Entrepreneurs."
Please, also email
a note so that we can track your donation. Please email us at
desiree2013[at]desireealliance[dot]org
The subject with be "Desiree donation through SEE"
If you prefer to donate by check or money order, you can send mail to:
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
22231 Mulholland Hwy Suite 209
Calabasas, CA 91302
Checks/money orders must be made payable to SEE with Desiree
Alliance in the memo.
All contributors who
give more than $50 will receive a thank you note and tax-deduction
voucher directly from SEE.
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