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Diversity Statement

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.


 

Legislators of this century have continued to fail to realise that prostitutes are not a special breed of women with compulsions to indulge in criminal behaviour... socially, culturally and psychologically prostitute women pursue lifestyles little different to the millions of other single working women, wives and mothers in the... community. Popular mythology keeps prostitute women separated from other women in people's minds, while the law, founded as it is in 19th century puritanism, keeps them separated in the social order.

-Working girls: prostitutes, their life and social control by Roberta Perkins

 

Initiatives to “end demand” for prostitution harm women and undermine service programs!

 End Demand Fact Sheet

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Conference

The Desiree Alliance, along with our sponsors*, is pleased to announce that our National Sex Worker Conference:

"Working Sex: Power, Practice, and Politics"

held in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada, July 25th to 30th, 2010 was a great success!

Please see our presentation abstracts list by clicking here.

Here are our speakers' bios.

Tim Barnett's documents:

1. His powerpoint presentation
2. New Zealand Prostitution Law Reform Act Summary (doc)
3. Sex Work and the Law: The Case for Decriminalization (pdf)

Our Keynote Speeches are Live!

The 2010 conference was arranged in a series of 5 tracks. Click on the track you're most interested in to find out more about it!!

   

   

   

Our supporters:

Amanda Brooks's Internet Escort's Handbook http://www.theinternetescortshandbook.com

Exotic Dancer Net http://www.exoticdancernet.com

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Conference News 2010

 

2010 Sponsors

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


Scholarship deadline has passed.

Group rate at hotel has been extended until they sell out. Reserve now!

Registration will close on July 15th! There will be NO onsite registration for this year's conference.

Our after party fundraiser is open to the public! You'll soon be able to purchase tickets online. Please check back soon!
 

 

 

 

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Past Conferences

 

 

Past conferences

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
 

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
 

2006
"Re-visioning Prostitution Policy: Creating Space for Sex Worker Rights and Challenging Criminalization"
July 9-12, Las Vegas
Conference 2006 :: CFP 2006
Schedule 2006 :: Speakers' List 2006
Logistics 2006

 

 

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 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://p7.secure.hostingprod.com/@saveourplanet.org/ssl/donatenow.html

Your credit card statement will only say "Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs."

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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The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities, and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy, and health services for sex workers. We provide leadership and create space for sex workers and supporters to come together to advocate for human, labour, and civil rights for all workers in the sex industry.

Desiree Alliance is a Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

 


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