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Membership
information: Is your organization interested in becoming a member of the
Alliance?
Please email us at info@desireealliance.org
. Membership means you and/or your organization believe in our mission
statement below:
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.
Our partners can be
found here.
Our member organizations include, but are not limited to:
 Sex
Workers' Outreach Project, USA (SWOP-USA)
"Sex Workers Outreach
Project-USA is a national social justice network dedicated to the
fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing
on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy."
SWOP-Portland
SWOP-NorCal
SWOP-SoCal
SWOP Tuscon
SWOP-LV (also SCAPA)
SWOP East
SWOP
Chicago
SWOP Michigan
Best
Practices Policy Project
"The Best Practices Policy Project is an organization dedicated to
creating excellence amongst organizations and advocates working with sex
workers in the
United States.
We produce materials for policy environments, address research and
academic concerns and provide NGOs with technical assistance. Everything
that we do is guided by principles that protect the rights of people who
engage in commercial sex in all its forms."
Different
Avenues
"Different Avenues is a tax-exempt, non-profit agency located in
northwestern Washington, DC. We provide services to youth and young
adults, ages 12 to 30 years, who are homeless or living in insecure
housing. Many of our clients are transgendered, gay, lesbian or
bisexual. We also help youth who themselves are parents, as well as
parents of youth. We work with people who engage in street survival
strategies, including sex for favors."
Bay
Area Sex Workers' Advocacy Network
"Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network, is an organization in the San
Francisco Bay Area which works to improve working conditions, increase
benefits, and eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working
within both legal and criminalized adult entertainment industries. The
organization provides expert advice and sensitive and timely information
to social service, policy reformers, media outlets, politicians
including the San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution and Commission on
the Status of Women (COSW) and law enforcement agencies dealing with sex
workers."
Veronica
Monet
"Veronica Monet graduated as an honor student from Oregon State
University in 1982, with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor
in Business Administration. After working in corporate settings for
seven years, she spent the next 14 years acquiring experience with the
practical and political aspects of sex work as an erotic model, porn
actress, prostitute, escort, and courtesan. Ms. Monet has become very
popular with the media and the public as her extensive television,
radio, magazine, newspaper, book credits and lecture venues reveal!"
COYOTE
"COYOTE ("Call Off Your Tired Ethics") was founded
by Margo St. James in 1973. COYOTE works for the rights of all sex
workers: strippers, phone operators, prostitutes, porn actresses etc. of
all genders and persuasions. COYOTE supports programs to assist sex
workers in their choice to change their occupation, works to prevent the
scapegoating of sex workers for AIDS and other STDs, and to educate sex
workers, their clients and the general public about safe sex."
HIPS
"HIPS' mission is to assist female, male, and transgendered
individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy
lives. Utilizing a harm reduction model, HIPS' programs strive to
address the impact that HIV/AIDS, STIs, discrimination, poverty,
violence and drug use have on the lives of individuals engaging in sex
work." More coming soon!
Desiree
Alliance is a Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a
501(c)(3) non-profit.
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