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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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 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.
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 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 participants made a minute long public service announcement video and audio recording.
Also available, click to download (and feel free to include in your podcast!) AUDIO: I Am a Sex Worker
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 …
After the success of the Speak Up! seminar, made possible by the funds raised last year from the 2009 NYC Sex Blogger Calendar, we’re all extremely excited to be repeating this project. This year some …
Sex Work 101 was inspired by conversations that happened during the Women, Action and the Media 2008 conference held in Cambridge, MA from March 28-30, 2008.
Former $pread magazine editor and board member of Sex Work …
“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 …
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 …
[...] a minute Because some of the women in this one minute I Am a Sex Worker PSA remind me of friends of mine, I wanted to share this on their behalf. The rest of the site is [...]
Fabulous!!! Thank you all for creating such a warm and loving PSA. It made my eyes water …in a good way. If I had seen something like this when I was working, it would have helped me in so many ways. I can’t say I ever really felt guilty about SW (I’m sure I had some shame-based thoughts here and there …but who doesn’t in this anti-sex culture). But, I did feel alone. I felt so alone even though I knew that there were lots of folks doing all kinds of SW. And we are mediated to adopt beliefs that SW is a special case–distinct and separate from real life. It can really hurt to feel like there is no other choice but to dissociate. PSA’s like this could do so much good for the ways that we think about ourselves because it helps to know that we are not alone in being the real-complex persons that dream and bake and live.
Elizabeth
Detroit, MI USA
[...] And…a hell of a lot more of THIS would certainly help thing a lot, too (just another of a thousand reasons why Audacia Ray kicks serious ASS): [...]
I dont know what to write but I want to say that I am a sex worker so everyone can know.
What a beautiful simple and powerful clip. Imagine if we all did this sex workers from every country in the the world… then joined our clips together…different accents, languages, genders, styles, etc.
SWA what do you think?
I cooked a 5 courses meal for 400 people last week…… and i m a sexworker
[...] Warning! contains sound: http://www.sexworkawareness.org/i-am-a-sex-worker-video-and-audio-psa/ [...]
I love this PSA! So we put it on our blog as the “featured video” for today. Thanks for posting it!
Well done. I have been “out” about it in my past only to wish that I had not. I’m a private person, certainly not an activist by any means. Thanks for the work that you do. I’m not sure exactly which way to go. To sit on the sidelines fuels the isolation and tiny lies. It’s exhausting.
beautiful in its simplicity, but i could also see it being expanded into something much more in depth. bravo!
i am many things… one of which happens to be a sex worker.
[...] this next week at the Sex Worker Film, Art & Musical Festival in San Francisco along with the PSA I am a sex worker. Although this post is somewhat of a rant of my frustrations and confusion the film itself was [...]
I’m candidate at the European Parliament the election day 6/7 june
and I’m a sex worker for ever
They all look so clean too. It’s so weird to see them without being stereotypes covered in makeup and eyeshadow.
recent graduate – babysitter – webmaster – sex worker!
[...] like the “Sex Workers Are People, Too” PSA, I’d love to see a “Sex Work is Work” PSA. I think that we’re much more [...]
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I agree that the video could have been expanded. I see the potential for a documentary with a similar theme.
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