Whether your expertise is the street corner, the classroom, or the clinic we are looking for you to show us what's wrong, what’s right, and what can come to be the future of Harm Reduction and Outreach Services for Sex Workers.
Come share your innovative ideas or learn how to provide outreach services at the Desiree Alliance 2010 Conference Harm Reduction and Outreach track. Be a part of an event that will inspire and pioneer a fresh perspective on how harm reduction and outreach services can be fine tuned to the ones that need it the most. Enjoy workshops and presentations from the best and brightest giving their unique take on harm reduction and outreach services to sex workers.
There
will be presentations on Street Based Health Care Services, Addiction
Services, and Transgender Issues in Sex Work, Youth Outreach Services,
Safe Space Realization programs, Bad Date Protection workshops, and
Police Misconduct trainings. Let your submission break new ground in
this ever changing field of Harm Reductions. We are looking forward to
seeing you there, so reserve your spot now!
Presentations (This list is subject to change)
Reverend Pam Vessels: Sex and Spirituality
Brooke Johnson: Female Sex Workers: A Harm Reduction Strategy Plan
Al: Keeping out of Harm's Way
Sarah Sloane: Rebirthing our Joy: Health and Happy Sex Lives for Sexual Trauma Survivors
Tina Wolf: The Birth of Translatina: An Assessment of Need among Undocumented Transgender Sex Workers
Silke Haller & Lyne Genereux: Beyond Harm Reduction: Integrating a Drug User's Rights Perspective into the Sex Workers Rights Movement
S. Outlaw and E. Smith: Connecting for Sex Work Peer Education: A Combined Approach to Working with Substance Use in Different Sex Working
Jessica Castellano et al: Needs Assessment of Sex Workers in Albuquerque: A multidisciplinary Community Based Participatory Approach
Joassaint: Engaging and Advocating for GLBT youth sex workers: Informing Social Services Delivery Systems
Fidel Figueroa:The Male Mystique
Gordon Nyabade: Go Fishnet Initiatives Towards Sex Workers in Kenya
Arthur: Violating Sex Workers
McCracken:Violence and Policy
Radeloff: Having a Seat at the Table
Alexis Roth: Risk Negotiation
Sephen Crowe: Men at Work: Building a National Movement of Male Sex Workers?
Sandy Guillaume & Ricardo Canales: Making Connections: Effective Outreach Strategies in the Sex Worker Community
Anna Saini & Mariko Passion: Using Art to Survive and Transgress Violence
Jill McCracken: One Outreach/Harm Reduction Program and Its Impact on Street Sex Workers
Greg Scott & Erin Scott: Rediscovering and Reporting the 'Badness" of Violence: Lessons Learned from a Grassroots Attempt to Create a "Bad Date List' Program for Street Level Women Sex Workers
Screening Panel
Juliet November and Lisa Marie Alatorre: Skill Share on community accountability/healing/transformational approaches to violence against sex workers
Serpent Libertine and BeBeDoll: The Ethical Sex Worker
Stephen Crowe & Maryse Mitchell Brody-The PROS Network: Building a Coalition of Sex Worker Support
Bradley Hart & Naomi Akers-Know Thy Self: Community Participatory Health Assessment for Men in Sex Work (Scarlet Men, SF Project)
Bradley Hart & Sean Storm: It’s a (Gay) Guy Thing; Queer Male Perspectives on Sex Work
Andrea Ritchie: Show Some SAS!
Sarah Sloane: Making Safer Sex (and play) Sexier
Communities and Reducing Stigma with Sex Workers as a Whole
Call for Presentations (Note- deadline has passed)
The Desiree Alliance is pleased to announce that our upcoming National
Sex Worker Conference will be in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada, July 25th to
30th, 2010. We are currently seeking proposals for presentations and
workshops that discuss the relationship between harm reduction, outreach
services, and sex work.
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Sex workers face a number of issues which
significantly impede their quality of life, including risk for STDs
and
HIV, violence, illegal eviction due to suspicion of criminal behavior,
discrimination from medical providers, police misconduct, social
exclusion, extortion, and a myriad of other complicating issues. The Desiree Alliance supports all forms of sex work and is committed to
exploring these issues.
We are accepting proposals for presentations or workshops concerning a
variety of topics within or around the field of harm reduction and
outreach services. We are interested in but not
limited to workshops
concerning homelessness, the marginalization of undocumented sex
workers, modified substance use treatment services, street based primary
care and STD screenings, nontraditional housing alternatives, peer
education for and by sex workers, outreach enhancement for GLBT youth
engaging in sex work, case management, syringe exchange services,
overdose prevention and education, family services, public assistance
services, self defense workshops, and bad date protection workshops. We
are looking forward to new ideas about sex worker unionization and labor
rights, legal services for victims of trafficking, police harassment and
violence against sex workers, prevention training, and the harmful
effects of media misinformation campaigns on the community as a whole.
As with the principles of harm reduction, there are many opportunities
and approaches these workshops can take.
Contributors may be (and we highly encourage) current, former, and future sex workers, sex worker allies and advocates, academics, direct service providers and outreach workers, and anyone with a serious interest in the work we do. We encourage submissions from all backgrounds, as no story is too small to tell.
A Proposal should include:
· Title for your presentation
·
Affiliation with an organization or social justice movement you'd like
to have listed (not required)
· A short paragraph with your background and experience, or interest, in sex work or the sex workers rights' movement
· A bio which will appear in the program and on the website (approx 200 words)
· An Abstract of 500 words or fewer (the description that will appear in the program and on the website)
· Please include whether or not you will need any technical support, such as a projector or AV, etc.
· Any presentation experience your may have.
In some cases, panels will be suggested if more than one good proposal gets submitted on a specific topic.
DEADLINE: Proposals must be submitted by March 1st, 2010 to be considered, and all submissions will be notified of acceptance by March 30th, 2010. Please let us know in advance if you need extra time or if you need to be notified of acceptance earlier.
Send proposals to: SandyGuillaume[at]Yahoo[dot]com with the subject line "Proposal for Harm Reduction and Outreach", and CC desiree2010[at]desireealliance[dot]org.
