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Arts
WorkingStories is an audio documentary
project based on the lives of sex workers. For this project,
the phrase "sex work" includes many ways of making a
living. The project includes
anonymous telephone interviews mixed with the producer's
stories of her own experiences as an escort.
The finished project will be a recording in CD format. It
will include a variety of voices and experiences, presented without
hype & sensationalism. It will show what it's
like to be a sex worker: how and why people choose to do this type
of work, what the clients are like, what it's like for sex workers
to be in a relationship, and everything else that makes the sex
worker's life just as good -- or just as difficult -- as any other
life.
Prostitutes, escorts, exotic dancers, phone sex operators, BDSM
facilitators, etc. are invited to participate. Send
an email to workingstories@yahoo.com
for more information and to arrange an interview.
Phone number: 508-361-7275
San
Francisco's Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
For further info, email swfest@bayswan.org
Sex worker rights, community building, outreach, education and art
are our purposes. Over the past decade sex worker art and culture
festivals have sprouted up around the globe from Calcutta to Taiwan to
Montreal, from Portland to Cleveland and Arizona. Sex worker film, art
and performance events span the globe, chronicling contemporary sexual
politics and mores with a vision that penetrates our hypocrisies.
The Sex Worker Film and Video festival has screen over 150 films
since 1998. This years films include Sheila
Malone and Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm, "Louisa
Achille's "The Naked Feminist," Kristie
Alshaib's "Other People's Mirrors", Jill
Morley's "Stripped," Gangstresses
by Harry Davis with music by L'il Kim, shorts by Rosy Boyer, "Porn
Star Pets" by Margie Schnibbe among many more. Films focus on
sex; prostitutes' rights; organizing efforts and working conditions for
strippers; more sex; global sex work and sex work as a labor issue on
the international agenda; sex workers as heroes and heroines; sex
workers as saints; sex workers as jerks and perverts; sex work and
gender identities; queer sex workers; sex education; sex art; sex panic;
sexual orientation; sexual identity; porn and erotica; portraits of
strippers, prostitutes, doms, madams and much more.
Desiree
Alliance is a coalition of sex workers, health professionals, social scientists,
professional sex educators and their supporting networks. We seek to
encourage a better understanding of human sexuality by promoting ethical
and unbiased research into sexual subcultures; to promote saner and more
sensible approaches to policies relating to adult sexual health and
behavior. We use this information to educate and empower the public to
have healthy and rational attitudes about sexuality.
Desiree
Alliance is a Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a
501(c)(3) non-profit.
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