I Am a Sex Worker: Video and Audio PSA
April 28, 2009 – 9:32 pm | 18 Comments

Sex Work Awareness recently implemented its first day-long Speak Up media training workshop, which took place in New York at the Harm Reduction Coalition in mid-April 2009. At the end of the day, the workshop …

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Sex Blogger Calendar

Twelve of NYC’s most dynamic literary and sex positive women have joined together in order to support Sex Work Awareness with a sexy pinup calendar.

Sex Work 101

Sex Work 101 is a basic primer on issues affecting sex workers. It adds to public knowledge about sex work and encourages discussion about the issues sex workers face.

Speak Up

media trainings for sex workers that include reactive and earned media, traditional mainstream media and do-it-yourself new media

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Sex Work Issues and the New York State Legislative Process
February 8, 2010 – 5:10 pm | Comments Off

Tuesday , February 23rd, 6:00pm-8:30pm
At the Urban Justice Center in NYC

Ask most people about government and they tend to talk about their federal representatives, the White House, or maybe the Mayor. But the state government may have the most significant impacts on our daily lives, particularly in the realm of criminal justice. This two hour seminar is presented via a partnership of Sex Work Awareness and the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project. In it, sex workers, former sex workers, and allies will learn from a veteran staffer of the state legislature how the legislative process works, how to talk to elected officials about sex work issues, and what opportunities exist to engage with elected officials and affect change in Albany.

This is a FREE event, but you must RSVP to info@sexworkawareness.org.

For more information, please contact info@sexworkawareness.org.

Snacks and coffee will be provided.

Speak Up 2010 Application
January 24, 2010 – 8:29 pm | Comments Off

“Speak Up! Media Skills for the Empowered Sex Worker” is a weekend-long seminar offered by Sex Work Awareness (SWA) in New York City. Speak Up is taught by Audacia Ray and Eliyanna Kaiser, two former …

Tell the Department of Health and Human Services How the Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath Harms Sex Workers
December 19, 2009 – 7:48 am | Comments Off

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The anti-prostitution loyalty oath (APLO) is a regulation that has been part of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (aka “Leadership Act”) which requires non-governmental organizations and …

Pay As You Go Redux : Sex Worker Shorts at UnionDocs Nov 7
November 4, 2009 – 7:27 am | Comments Off

Due to the overwhelming success and turn out for the first screening and panel event, Pay As You Go : An Evening of Sex Worker Shorts, we’ve decided to do another night of it! …

November 6 : Sex Blogger 2010 Calendar Release Party
October 28, 2009 – 10:12 am | Comments Off

Friday, November 6, 2009 6:30 TO 9:30 PM

VISIONS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM
NEW YORK CITY SEX BLOGGERS 2010 CALENDAR
BURLESQUE…..SWAG…..SEXY BLOGGERS….RAFFLE
Celebrate the release of our Limited Edition 2010 Calendar – I’ve posed with the very handsome Sinclair …

Pay As You Go: Sex Worker Shorts at UnionDocs, October 24
October 14, 2009 – 7:37 pm | Comments Off

Photo of Kamalabai Pani by Audacia Ray/International Women’s Health Coalition
Pay As You Go: Sex Worker Shorts
Saturday, Oct. 25 – 6pm & 8:30pm
Suggested donation $7 per show, $10 double feature price. Special free panel …

Sex Worker Literati Reading Series Launching August 6th in NYC
July 27, 2009 – 7:40 am | Comments Off

This isn’t a Sex Work Awareness project, but it’s a reading series put on by Audacia Ray that is of interest to our communities.

Photo by Sinead McCarthy, design by Sinclair Sexsmith
Best-selling author David Henry Sterry …

Women’s Studies Professor Isn’t Listening to Women: Sex Workers Clash with “Experts” in Rhode Island
June 25, 2009 – 6:37 am | 4 Comments

Donna Hughes, a Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island and an outspoken opponent of the sex industry, wrote a piece for the Providence Journal called RI’s Carnival of Prostitution. In …

What defines ‘adult content’ and what exactly do you mean by explicit?
June 10, 2009 – 8:25 am | Comments Off

With the support of the APC Women’s Networking Support Programme, Sex Work Awareness is embarking on a research project to investigate restrictions on women’s access to sexuality information on the internet. Part of the project includes regular …

Speak Up! Media Training Materials
May 27, 2009 – 8:45 pm | No Comment

On April 18, 2009 Sex Work Awareness had our first Speak Up! Media Training for the Empowered Sex Worker in New York City. All the attendees got to take home a big packet of …

6th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
May 23, 2009 – 6:20 pm | Comments Off

Join us at the 6th Annual Conference: HOPE to ACTION
Saturday, May 30, 2009
9am-6pm: Hunter College, 68th St & Lexington Ave
Tables are still available – reserve yours today.
Registration is now open — save cash, register early!
Sex …