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Schedule

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Day Time Session Title and Presenter Session Info  
         
    Wednesday, July 16    
Wed, July 16 7:30pm Welcome Reception and Registration Check-in TBA  
         
         
    Thursday, July 17    
Thurs, July 17 11-12:30 Welcome and Announcements AR/AC/AO  
Contrary to Popular Belief: Developing open communication and collaboration in order to combat oppression in social justice work
Michaela Purdue
  LUNCH
2:40-3:20
Safety for Sex Workers Through Personal Privacy – Legal and Relatively Simple Ways of Working and Living Out of Harm’s Way 40 mins  
Amanda Brooks, SWOP East
Will O. Douglas, Free Speech Atty
  3:35-4:50 TBA Room A
1.15
 
TBA
    Sex Work, Soccer, and Solidarity: Community Building and Empowerment in Guatemala  Room B
1.15
 
Ana Moraga, MuJER, Exec. Dir.
    c. Safety 411 Room C
1.15
 
Ciara, Dangerzone411
  5:10-6:30 CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATION AMONG SEX WORKERS:  Reconstructing "Sex Work" Plenary-1.20  
SWOP-Chicago
Bethdeath (End the Prison Industrial Complex)
SerpentLibertine
Dave Wold
SWOP-LA or other
         
         
    Friday, July 18    
Fri, July 18 12-1 Announcements Plenary
1
 
Capitalism Critical Sexworkers? What the BLEEP?

National Sex Worker Leadership Institute: A new capacity building model
Conrad H and Ivy Fields (SWANK)
and
Penelope Saunders (BPPP)
  1:20-2:35 Adult Entertainer's Guide to Disabled Customers - 2008 Edition Room A
1.15
 
William Takashi & Leilah Binker
    How to Be an Adult Ally to Youth who trade Sex for Money, Gifts & Survival needs Room B
1.15
 
Shira Hassan, Laura Mintz, Cindy Ibarra (YWEP)
    Sex worker rights and direct services in urban communities of Los Angeles
Or We Asian Sex Workers
Room C
1.15
 
Mariko Passion (SWOP LA)
or We Asian Sex Workers
  Lunch      
  3:35-5:05 One-person shows for Social Justice Room A
1.20
 
Widow Centauri, Lorelei Erisis and Glorious Glory
    Don't Let This Happen To You: Screening Do's and Dont's

Bad Date Line: How to Start, Run + Maintain a Damn Good Project

Sex Workers Against Rape
Room B
1.20
 
BJ (HIPS)
Teresa Dulce (HRC)
Jill Brenneman (SWOP East)
    Self marketing and self branding - How to run a profitable and (more safe) sex worker business. Room C
1.20
 
Jasmine and Rachel (SWOP-Chicago)
  5:15-7 Sex Worker-Made Media

$pread Magazine: Past, Present, & Future (two-part workshop including lecture and hands-on training)

Getting Your Voice Out There!: Audio recording & Sound art

Sex Workers Make Media: Video
Plenary 1.45  
Hosted by $pread with featured speakers:
Axon Damien Luxe, Art Director for $pread Magazine, performance artist and writer
Rachel Aimee, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of $pread Magazine
Theresa Marie, Advertising Director
Sarah Jenny, New Media Director
Audacia Ray, Sex Work Awareness
Ruthie, SWANK
PJ Starr
Gigi Thomas (HIPS)
         
         
    Saturday, July 19    
Sat, July 19 11:30-1 Announcements Plenary 1  
Male Sex Workers: How to Organize, Support & Advocate for Themselves in the Movement
Stephen Crowe (FROSTD, HRC)
  1:20-2:35 Allies in the sex workers rights movement

Confessions from a Non-Experiential Ally.

Bridging Gaps, Students as Allies: Feminism in the Real World

Examining the Ideologies Surrounding Criminalization and Incarceration
Room A
1.15
 
Round-table Discussion facilitated by Tara and Trent of SWOP with featured participants:
Rene Ross (Stepping Stone)
Constance S. Richards
Laura Holliger
Samantha Ryland
Shea Boggs
Amber Cole
Jill McCracken (SWOP East)
    Allies for Human Rights and Safety - How sex workers are part of the solution to abuses within the sex industry

They are a Worse Danger: Policing Prostitution in Washington, DC

The Trafficking Debates
Room B
1.15
 
Melissa Ditmore, Sienna Baskin (SWP)
Darby Hickey (Different Avenues)
Carol Leigh (SWOP, BAYSWAN)
    Tantra: How it can uplift the plight and
struggle of sex workers and clientele
Room C
1.15
 
Krystan AlecSandra-Bray / Ormes Temple
  LUNCH
2:45-3:25
Sex Workers and Mainstream Media: What We Learned from "Spitzergate"- Tools and Inspiration for Progressive Messaging    
Audacia Ray ($pread, SWA author/director/producer/blogger)

Ruthie, Sarah Jenny (SWANK/SWOP NYC)
  3:35-5:05 Creating Sex Worker run direct service programs

The St. James Infirmary Clinic Model

Infiltration: Use the existing system to start a program

Community Health Outreach Workers on the streets of Baltimore

Mobile Outreach and Emergency Resources for Sex Worker
Plenary 1.30  
Co-hosted by St. James Infirmary and HIPS
Naomi Akers (SJI)
Cyndee Clay (HIPS)
Brenda Costley (POWER INSIDE)
GiGi Thomas (HIPS)
         
         
    Sunday, July 20    
Sun, July 20 11am- 4pm Brunch TBA  
  11:45am-12:45pm Morning Keynote Speaker (TBA) TBA  
TBA
  The following workshops are given by attendees. If you are attending and are interested in presenting, please email us (email address TBA)  
  1pm-2pm Attendee-run workshop I (TBA)
Attendee-run workshop II (TBA)
Attendee-run workshop III (TBA)
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TBA
  2:15-3:15pm Attendee-run Workshop IV (TBA)
Attendee-run workshop V (TBA)
Attendee-run Workshop VI (TBA)
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  3:30-4:30pm Attendee-run workshop VII (TBA)
Attendee-run Workshop VIII (TBA)
Attendee-run workshop X (TBA)
TBA
TBA
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TBA
  4:45-5:15pm Announcements and Farewell TBA  
         
         

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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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