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Rebel Cupcake
Thursday, May 6 @ 10pm
Sugarland, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Cover: $5
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118073761541338&ref=ts

Bevin Branlandingham Presents the first installment of a monthly flamboyant queer dance party for all shapes & flavors.

Performances by: AfroTitty, Lola Dean, Sarah Jenny, Ariel Speedwagon & More!

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ITP Spring Show 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2-5pm & Monday, May 10, 5-9 pm
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program,
721 Broadway (b/w Washington & Waverly), 4th Floor, New York, NY
Cover: FREE
Invite: http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/spring2010/

A festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP

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SWANK Overdose Prevention and Response Training
Wednesday, May 12 @ 7pm – 9pm
Location upon RSVP
This event is open to SWOP-NYC and SWANK members only. RSVP to sarahjenny@gmail.com by May 7th.
Cover: FREE

Facilitated by Stephen Crowe, Harm Reduction Coordinator, FROST’D

Heroin (and other opioid) overdoses are a common cause of death among users, yet these deaths are often preventable through education, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and when possible, through the administration of Naloxone (Narcan). In this workshop, participants
will start by learning the essentials of preventing opioid overdose deaths including prevention, recognition, and action. Participants will receive a certificate as Trained Overdose Responders and become qualified to train heroin or opioid users and colleagues at their own facilities on how to prevent an overdose. We will learn about fatal drug combinations, how to identify and respond to an overdose. Participants will practice overdose response, rescue
breathing, and Naloxone administration.

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Hey Queen!
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=93066307075&ref=ts
Friday, May 21 @ 10pm
Sugarland, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Cover: Free before 11pm, $5 after

I’ll be ensuring you are having the time of yr life. Come find me on the dance floor….

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Sex Worker Literati
Thurs., June 3 @7pm
Happy Endings, New York, NY
Cover: TBA

I will be reading a piece about Coming Out & Passing. Sex Worker Literati is a monthly reading series in NYC celebrating sex workers, plus an anthology of writings by people in the sex industry. Sex Worker LiteratiFacebook Page
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Sex Worker Cabaret
Sunday, June 6 @ 7pm (Performances start at 7:30pm)
Slipper Room, New York, NY
Cover: $10

Enjoy a diverse evening of sex workers of all stripes as they perform readings, burlesque, comedy, gogo, contortion, aerial performance, and performance art about sex work. This event directly supports the performers! Come out and show your support of the vibrant creative talent in the sex worker community. More information coming soon!

Produced by Rachel G. & Sarah Jenny

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Well, Why Don’t You Marry Us? 2
Monday, June 21 @ TBA
Kraine Theater, New York, NY
Cover TBA

Produced by Precious Little and Bastard Keith

I’ll be performing another burlesque number for this marriage equality benefit I was honored to perform at last year!

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Hey Queen!
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=93066307075&ref=ts
Friday, June 25 @ 10pm
Sugarland, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Cover: Free before 11pm, $5 after

I’ll be ensuring you are having the time of yr life. Come find me on the dance floor….

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xoxo
Sarah Jenny

Celebrate Sex Worker Pride this June at the Sex Worker Cabaret on June 6th at the Slipper Room!

We are looking for cabaret acts for an early evening (7pm-10pm) of burlesque, performance art, readings, comedy, and musical acts.

Diversity encouraged! All genders, bodies, ages, and talents welcome to apply. Please submit a short proposal about the type of act or number you’d be interested in doing. If we don’t know one another, please send a link to your website, facebook, etc or a photo.

We are currently looking for proposals that would be, on some level, about sex work: whether it be a story about your favorite client, a burlesque number to She Works Hard For the Money, or a more abstract interpretation. Preference is given to current/former sex workers (self-defined) but we are also considering submissions from allies, partners of workers, etc.

Compensation: This is a benefit for…you! Some overhead costs need to be covered but after that, all money received from the door will be pooled and split among the performers based on the number of acts they do. (Each act is a share in the pool with a max of 2 acts per performer.) We ask that you help promote as the more people we bring in, the more money for the performers.

We are also looking for gogo dancers who would be compensated in tips. You can perform and gogo.

Please forward to anyone you think might like to be a part of this very special evening.

Deadline: Please submit your proposal by April 7th.

Questions? Contact: Sarah Jenny – sarahjenny@gmail.com

Promoters: Sarah Jenny & Rachel G.

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.

]]> http://www.sarahjenny.org/blog/2010/02/08/sex-work-issues-and-the-state-legislative-process/feed/ 0 http://www.sarahjenny.org/blog/2009/12/10/sex-workers-rights-are-human-rights/ http://www.sarahjenny.org/blog/2009/12/10/sex-workers-rights-are-human-rights/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:21:20 +0000 Sarah Jenny http://www.sarahjenny.org/blog/?p=355 Join us for a Speak-Out & Arts Evening!
Celebrating International Human Rights Day

Andrea Ritchie, M.C. for the night
And more!

Where: NYU, 19 University Place, in the Great Room

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

Speakers will include community organizers, peer educators, advocates, artists. . . and YOU?

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!

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 .

Date:	Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Time:	7:00pm – 8:45pm
Location:	Brooklyn Borough Hall
Street:	209 Joralemon Street
City/Town:	Brooklyn, NY
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When/Where

October 24, 2009 (Time TBA)
• UnionDocs: 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, [http://www.uniondocs.org/].

Submission Cost

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.

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