Register now to lock in the early registration fee of $150….this includes meals and party!!! ~Desiree Alliance Presents~ In partnership with BAYSWAN, Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA, SWANK, H.I.P.S. Different Avenues, COYOTE, Best Practices Policy Project, $pread Magazine, St. James Infirmary, Harm Reduction Coalition, PONY, SWOP-Chicago, SWOP-Las Vegas, SWOP-Los Angeles, SWOP- Northern California, SWOP-Arizona, SWOP-Portland, & [...]
Harm Reduction Training Collaborative on; *Women, Drug Use and Trauma:*
Please distribute widely… Harm Reduction Training Collaborative on; *Women, Drug Use and Trauma:* *Successfully Addressing Women’s Issues in Recovery* Date: *Friday, 06/06/08* Time: *10am – 1pm* Location: MATEC 1640 W. Roosevelt Rd , Chicago , IL Trainer: Maureen Rule, CMHC, Program Coordinator, Tierra del Sol: Women’s Residential Recovery Program Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, [...]
Photographers/Videographers Needed for 2008 Desiree Alliance Conference in July
We are still looking for house photographers and videographers for this year’s Desiree Alliance conference July 16-21 in Chicago. If you are interested, please apply here. All applicants will still need to register for the conference as well. Deadline for applications is May 31. We will notify you before June 15 if you have been [...]
Red Light District Chicago on Can-TV This Saturday!
SWOP-Chicago’s own television show, RedLightDistrictChicago will be airing this Saturday night, May 10 at 10PM and every Saturday night in May (17, 24) at 10PM on CAN-TV Channel 19 (Chicago Cable only). Check out episodes 1 and 2 which feature our on-the-street interviews about the Elliot Spitzer scandal and interviews from our Orgia party earlier [...]
Some men say using prostitutes is an addiction
Here’s a piece that unfortunately ignores the voices of sex workers and assumes, like the men “studied”, that sex workers are a faceless, voiceless commodity.-jane brazen http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/chi-sex-trade-studymay06,0,7659645.story Some men say using prostitutes is an addiction 200 take part in study about motivation By David Heinzmann Tribune reporter May 5 2008, 11:27 PM CDT [...]
The Pink Scare: Of Ms. Palfrey and Sex Panic
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS RELEASE Dylan Wolfe - Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank@riseup.net Michael Bottoms - Sex Workers Outreach Project - New York City (SWOP-NYC), swop.nyc@gmail.com Susan Blake - Prostitutes of New York (PONY), pony@panix.com Desiree Alliance, info@DesireeAlliance.org The Pink Scare: Of Ms. Palfrey and Sex Panic New York, NY - The activists at Sex [...]
2008 Desiree Alliance Conference in Chicago-Registration is Open!
~Desiree Alliance Presents~ In partnership with BAYSWAN, Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA, SWANK, H.I.P.S. Different Avenues, COYOTE, Best Practices Policy Project, $pread Magazine, St. James Infirmary, Harm Reduction Coalition, PONY, SWOP-Chicago, SWOP-Las Vegas, SWOP-Los Angeles, SWOP- Northern California, SWOP-Arizona, SWOP-Portland, & SWOP-EAST “Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work and Social Justice” July 16-20, 2008 Chicago, IL [...]
