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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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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Speak Up! Media Training for the Empowered Sex Worker
April 24, 2009 – 7:56 pm | 5 Comments
Speak Up! Media Training for the Empowered Sex Worker

“Speak Up! Media Skills for the Empowered Sex Worker” is a day-long seminar offered by the New York-based organization Sex Work Awareness (SWA). The workshop is based on $pread Magazine’s successful “Journalism for Sex Workers” …