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Resource for adult
entertainers
This is
the abstract for a presentation on working with disabilities which was
going to be presented at the conference. We are placing it here along
with its link so that all who wish may have access to it:
This presentation is intended to be a guide
to help Adult Entertainers, significant others, and people with
disabilities interact in the best possible way. I will begin with a
brief discussion about how people with disabilities should be viewed by
others. Then I will provide examples of correct terminology and
etiquette that you may utilize with people who have different
disabilities. Next I will provide a short discussion of the Americans
with Disabilities Act. The document ends with a section on sexual
etiquette with the disabled. The sexual etiquette section is provided
here for anyone who might want to be intimate with a disabled person. My
presentation is also available at:
http://www.access-design-services.com/star/d-e.htm
Desiree Alliance is
supporting the formation of a blog where sex workers can lead the
discussion about the Palfrey scandal. Visit us at:
http://www.BoundNotGagged.com
More details:
Why a Blog
for Sex Workers?
It shouldn't come as
a surprise to anybody that escorts around the country are tuned
in to the Palfrey scandal and are anxiously awaiting the
outcome.
It may, however,
come as a surprise to some that sex workers in many sectors have
something to say about it. They have insight, they have analysis
and they have outrage!
The Palfrey
situation brings to the surface more issues than a single
organizational statement can address. As advocates, it would be
impossible to make a statement that truly reflects the voices of
this dynamic and diverse community.
BoundnotGagged is a space
for these voices to be heard. It is a place for sex workers to
respond to the way that they're portrayed in the media, the way
that sexist laws are used to undermine women's rights and their
feelings about the ethical dilemma of exposing a client list.
The issues are deep and broad. The stories are powerful and
frustrating.
BoundnotGagged is our way
of responding to the injustice and hypocrisy that keeps sex
workers' voices muted and faces hidden. Sex workers may be in
hiding, but they refuse to be silent. This blog will give you an
inside look at the true inner-workings of this mysterious
business.
The Desiree Alliance
is committed to creating space and campaigns that address the
real needs of sex workers. We are proud to sponsor this project
to provide a platform where sex workers can speak for
themselves.
Sincerely,
Stacey Swimme
Desiree Alliance
The Desiree Alliance* is a coalition of
sex workers, health
professionals, social scientists, professional sex educators, and their supporting networks working together for an
improved understanding of the sex industry and its human, social and
political impacts. Our focus is on building local and regional
leadership and constructive activism in the sex worker population to
advocate for sex workers' human, labor and civil rights.
In 2006, the most important goal of the Desiree Alliance is to be part
of efforts to reinvigorate the sex workers' rights movement in the US.
Therefore, all of our actions last year focused on building
leadership and constructive activism in the sex worker population. While
the Desiree Alliance promotes rights and justice for people engaging in
sexual commerce, we collaborate and stand with organizations working in
overlapping struggles for the rights of sexual and gender minorities,
sexual rights in general, reproductive rights and human rights.
Desiree Alliance is
committed to nonviolence. This means that we adhere to the tenets of
principled nonviolence in the achievement of our goals, and we disdain
the use of violence by any person or group of people to achieve any
goal- be it political, practical, or spiritual. We are comprised of
members who work to end violence against sex workers, believing that
violence against any human is violence against all humans. Foundational
to our alliance is the common desire amongst all members- both
groups and individuals- to promote social justice and gender
equity. Often marginalized, sex workers and their allies face
many ideological obstacles to our aims, and these are often
fuelled by misinformation. Misinformation has been a driving
force behind many dehumanizing tactics used by oppressors
throughout history, and in the case of sex workers unfortunately
there is no difference. Misinformation and outright prejudice
are often responsible for the actions of serial killers and
other abusers of sex workers.
Nonviolent principles seek to
re-humanize those who have been dehumanized, and in the process
bring humanity back to those who dehumanize (for they, too, have
compromised their own humanity by allowing themselves to use the
tactic of dehumanization). Desiree hopes that by adhering to the
principles of nonviolence, we can bring
about the fundamental change in each person needed to achieve
the justice we seek for those among us who may have ideas about
the use of their bodies which challenge others' beliefs.
More information on nonviolence can be found here. Desiree
alliance wishes to change fundamentally the way sex workers are
perceived by society. We recognize that our project is one which will
require a great amount of time and patience, but we gain inspiration
from civil rights movements which have gone before us; including but not
limited to the suffragettes' movement of the 1800s and the civil rights
movement of the 1960s.
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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.
*Donations:
Desiree Alliance is a Project of Social and
Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Please make
checks payable to SEE/Desiree Alliance. If you are donating by credit
card, please note that Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, or a
variation of SEE, will show up on your credit card statement. Your
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