Sex Work Issues and the State Legislative Process
Tuesday , February 23rd, 6:00pm-8:30pm
Large Conference Room, Urban Justice Center
123 William St., 16th Fl
New York, NY 10038
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.
Join us for a Speak-Out & Arts Evening!
Celebrating International Human Rights Day
December 10th
Featuring:
Performance Artist, Ignacio Rivera
Performance Artist, Damien Luxe
Guitarist, K. Stone
Political Artwork by Empower Thailand
Andrea Ritchie, M.C. for the night
And more!
Where: NYU, 19 University Place, in the Great Room
What time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
What day: Thurs., Dec. 10th
Sponsored by:
Sex Workers Action Network (SWANK)
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-NYC)
MADRE
$pread Magazine
Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP)
Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL)
WITNESS
December 17 th is Internation al Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Join us in honoring the lives of sex workers and celebrating our communities with a candlelit vigil. Come add your voice to the call to end violence against sex workers at our community speak-out.
Speakers will include community organizers, peer educators, advocates, artists. . . and YOU?
Where: Metropolitan Community Church
446 West 36th Street, Manhattan
When: Thursday December 17th, 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Metrocards available. Please wear red!
For more information, please contact swank@riseup.net or 212.714.1184 x50
Sponsored by:
Sex Workers Action Network (SWANK) * Sex Workers Organizing Project (SWOP-NYC) * $pread Magazine * Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP)
Hey Queen Presents:
QUEEN WITH BENEFITS!!!!
a benefit for Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ)
www.q4ej.org
QUEEN OF HONOR: KENYON FARROW!!!
QEJ’s INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and BIRTHDAY BOY!!!
DJ MARIMACHA
DJ SIRLINDA
DJ BRYAN BLACK
Special Performance by TACTICAL SPECTACLE!!!
(Formerly known as Team Awesome, Tactical Spectacle is the dance troupe extraordinaire of the Rude Mechanical Orchestra)
HOSTS:
Kitty LaKitty
Amy Agony
Sarah Jenny
and Scout
$10-$5 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Cheap drinks
$1 Shots all night long
SUGARLAND
221 N. 9th St
(between Driggs & Roebling)
Brooklyn, NY
L Train to Bedford
RSVP at our Facebook Event Page!
The Brooklyn Community Pride Center is excited to announce its first community education panel. “The Trans Community and Law Enforcement” provides an opportunity for legal and law enforcement professionals and the Transgender/LGB community to address concerns that arise for T/LGB people during interactions with law enforcement and to explore ways that police and prosecutors can better address the needs of the T/LGB community. There will be an opportunity for the public to address the panelists. This event is free and open to the public.
Moderated by Paisley Currah, Founder and Board Member of The Transgender Law and Policy Institute, author of ‘Transgender Rights.’
Confirmed panelists include:
-Marc Fliedner, Kings County District Attorney’s Office, Senior District Attorney
-Tom Verni, NYPD LGBT Liaison
-Jarad Ringer, New York City Anti-Violence Project, Coordinator of Hate Violence and Police Relations Programs
-Melissa Sklarz, New York Transgender Rights Organization
-Lourdes Hunter, Community Organizer/Campaign Coordinator
This event is co-sponsored by the Kings County District Attorney’s Office .
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Brooklyn Borough Hall
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New York Sex Work(er) Film & Video Fest is a one day Film and Video art festival screening recent works including shorts, documentaries, and experimental works by and about sex workers. A panel discussion on sex work and the law, media, and art as well as an after party will follow.
When/Where
Submission Cost
FREE
All proceeds from this event go to support community activist work.
Submit Your Film/Video
Please send a link to your work for submission, the title, director, 200 word or less synopsis, year (ex 2007), location (ex. US), and length (ex. 8min), and a URL if applicable (ex. http://www.sexworkerfilm.com) by October 1st for consideration. If selected, you will be required to send in a DVD, to be received by October 20.
Send to: sarahjenny@gmail.com or contact for mailing address.
I will be the Queen of Honor this Friday at HEY QUEEN! I hope you can make it!
We will be honoring Madonna with hot jams, blonde ambition, and a pinch of sass.
Free legal training for sex workers on September 24th. Sponsored by SWANK & SWOP-NYC, Sex Worker Project of the Urban Justice Center, and Anti-Violence Project.
