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Track C- Art, Entertainment, and Media



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Track C- Art, Entertainment, and Media
Tuesday 3:00-4:30 Film Screenings
Tuesday 3:50-4:30 Rachel Schreiber: “Before Their Makers and Their Judges: Prostitutes and White Slaves in the Political Cartoons of the Masses”  (Cross-listed with track A)
Track D- Business Development
Tuesday 3:00-3:40 Erik Peterson Analytics, LLC: Personal Finance for Adult Industry Professionals
Personal Finance for Adult Industry Professionals will cover many topics including:

-Financial Planning and Budgeting


-Impacts of Lifestyle on Financial Independence
-Smart Spending
-Saving Strategies
-Uses & Pitfalls of Financial Services (banks, credit cards, etc)
-Spending on Large-Ticket Items (cars and homes)
-Appreciating Assets vs. Depreciating Assets
-Hidden Costs (taxes, fees & insurance)
-Common Sales Tricks
-Investing Strategies
            -Setting Goals
            -Active vs Passive Investing
            -Asset Diversification (stocks vs bonds, international vs domestic)
            -Fees and Returns
            -Advisor Selection
            -Common Pitfalls
Tuesday 3:50-4:30 Sarah Sloane: Burnt and Jaded: When the Passion Isn’t Passionate Anymore
We sometimes look up from our day-to-day lives and think “Wait – this used to feel good!” Our home lives (and loves) don’t have the energy and “sizzle” that they used to, and we feel drained and uninspired – which then creeps over into our work lives and affects us negatively there, too – and the spiral just keeps continuing. Is this an inevitable phase that we all go through as sex workers? Is this why we don’t feel that “zing” when we want enjoy the pleasure that our bodies can give us? It doesn’t have to be. Let’s explore the many reasons that we may be feeling less fulfilled in our sexuality than we used to be, and let’s talk about the ways to bring the joy and fire back into what we do. 
Track E- Harm Reduction and Outreach
Tuesday 3:00-3:30 Jessica Castellano and Karen Zorn: Needs Assessment of Sex Workers in Albuquerque: A multidisciplinary Community Based Participatory Approach
Sex workers, who include female street-based prostitutes, escorts, erotic dancers as well as male and transgender sex-workers that exchange money for a sexual or erotic act, face numerous barriers to utilization of both mainstream and specialized health care services. In addition, legal liability and social stigmatization have extensive repercussions on the health and safety of sex workers. In Albuquerque, NM, the health care needs of sex workers and the health care structure that would best serve this vulnerable population are poorly understood and have not been rigorously studied. Informal investigations via interviews with area healthcare providers and outreach organizations suggest there is a large unmet need. This research aims to establish a clear picture of the health care needs and suitable methods for delivery of service to this specific population. It will follow the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) model and establish a Community Advisory Panel (CAP) made up sex workers, health care providers and representatives of outreach organizations. Members of the CAP will be recruited through contacts and referrals from various health care professionals and outreach organizations. The CAP will then design a survey instrument and strategy for a needs assessment. As the actual interviews are conducted in the community, the CAP will interpret the survey results and develop a plan to meet those needs.
Tuesday 3:30-4:00 Fidel Figueroa: The Male Mystique
This presentation will identify and address the gaps in providing outreach, support and interventions to male sex workers. This presentation will identify the different language and outreach strategies that are specific to the male sex workers. Traditional interventions are usually targeted towards women and the msm population. These interventions are standard and have proven their efficacy. In my own experience with working in the sex industry, I will address the gaps in the traditional model, and what interventions have worked with this population. Male sex work, in a harm reduction model, is a new concept, the issue of identifying who you have sex with is taboo. I hope to create a dialogue on individual experiences with outreach, clinical and frontline staff. What are the barriers to providing and creating an effective intervention? Barriers found were: illegality of prostitution, education, cultural competence, language, discrimination on race, religion, color, sex, gender …, police and public health authorities, homeliness, desperation and poverty, drug addiction and lack of resources.
Tuesday 4:00-4:30 Gordon Nyabade: Go Fishnet Initiatives Towards Sex Workers in Kenya (Cross-listed with Track B)
Tuesday 5:00pm to 6:30 Sessions
Track A- Academic and Policy
Tuesday 5:00-5:30 Joyce Arthur: Violating sex workers (Cross-listed with Track E)
Prostitution is one of the most extensively regulated areas of female sexuality, and the legal approach to controlling the sex industry is a frequent topic of global debate. In Canada, prostitution itself is legal, but nearly every action related to selling sexual services is criminally prohibited. There is agreement across Canada that current criminal provisions are unsatisfactory; the debate lies in determining how to best manage commercial sexual activity between adults. This presentation reviews the history of Canadian legislation and enforcement around prostitution, with a focus on Vancouver, British Columbia. Drawing on the work of several Canadian studies and reports, evidence is presented to identify ways that the criminal prohibition of prostitution harms sex workers. Sex workers are entitled to the same legal protections and benefits as other citizens, but to realize these essential human rights, consensual, adult prostitution must be removed from the realm of the criminal law. The presentation will also discuss strategies of the sex worker community and its allies to decriminalize prostitution in Canada, including two current court challenges that seek to overturn the laws as unconstitutional because they violate the human rights of sex workers.
Tuesday 5:30-6:00 Jill McCracken: Violence and policy: What Street Sex Workers Can Teach Us about Language and Change (Cross-listed with Track E)
This presentation aims to not only address governmental violence (police, military, and other government officials) that occurs against sex workers, but that of civilian violence that goes unreported and/or is not prosecuted. Drawing on approximately 20 interviews with street workers and an additional 20 interviews with public figures (police officers, social service agents, neighborhood association leaders, and activists), I offer specific examples of how this violence is understood while offering suggestions for how we can reframe our language and our policy recommendations in order to enact concrete change.

My research is based on an ethnographic, interview study grounded in rhetorical analysis of the language used by my participants in order to offer suggestions for how this language influences perspectives about street sex work and street sex workers. I draw on Barry Brummett’s analysis in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture where he defines quotidian rhetoric as:

 

“the public and personal meanings that affect everyday, even minute-to-minute public decisions. This level of rhetoric is where decisions are guided that do not take the form of peak crises […] but do involve long-term concerns as well as the momentary choices that people must make to get through the day. […] People are constantly surrounded by signs that influence them, or signs that they use to influence others, in ongoing, mundane, and nonexigent yet important ways” (41).



 

I draw on this concept in order to better illustrate how “ongoing, mundane, and nonexigent” conversations and attitudes can influence people in extremely important ways—especially as they relate to attitudes about, performances of, and reactions to violence. By better understanding these language choices and their influence on public perceptions and policy, we can work to use different language, and thereby shift the focus of the conversations to better represent sex-worker experiences and enact personal and policy changes.


Tuesday 6:00-6:30 Cheryl Radeloff: Having a seat at the table: Matching Health District’s Mission with Sex Worker Needs (Cross-listed with Track E)
Since its inception in the 1960s, the Southern Nevada Health District has been actively involved in addressing sexually transmitted communicable infections in our community.  Southern Nevada, particularly Las Vegas (or as it is known as its media bestowed title of “Sin City”), presents a unique legal, social, economic, as well as political context for public health entities addressing the sexual health needs of its visitors and residents. Sex work, and prostitution in particular, is synonymous with Las Vegas, yet barriers may exist that prevent sex workers from utilizing public health amenities. For example, Nevada statutes and administrative code detail STD testing requirements for legal and non-legal workers. While the Southern Nevada Health District collaborates with criminal justice entities in STD testing and treatment for at-risk and infected populations, the mandated mission of public health is separate and distinct from that of law enforcement.  Yet, public health may be perceived as the “sex police”. In addition, sex workers may have experienced stigma from health professionals and may not disclose personal and occupational risk to public health representatives. Public health organizations, as grant funded and bureaucratic organizations, may face structural and contextual barriers that limit their ability to address sex workers’ specific needs. This presentation will not only explore the mission and scope of public health efforts toward sexually transmitted disease in Southern Nevada and specifically within this population, but also suggest areas for continued dialogue and innovation. Some of the recommendations for addressing sex workers’ needs include the development of further educational and outreach efforts, advocacy of changes to existing public policy regarding new and innovative STD screening techniques, and encouraging sex worker involvement in public health community planning processes.
Track B- Activism
Tuesday 5:00-5:40 Cristine Sardina: Wanted: 1 Criminal: Effective Grassroots Organizing for Disenfranchised Populations
This workshop will be an interactive discussion on how to empower yourself in the face of politicized rejection, disenfranchisement, and criminal status. The women of the Women’s ReEntry Network-WREN in Tucson, Arizona have used effective grassroots organizing and mobilizing from the resistive stance of criminal since 2004. WREN has successfully challenged systems of oppression that bring back the voices of the least heard but the most affected. WREN has worked tirelessly to reform basic human rights in areas of labor, housing, criminal (in)justice reforms, collateral consequences, and civil rights restorations for the women in and out of Arizona’s penal institutions.

Part I: How to be an Activist

1. Explanation of organizing from a depoliticized stance. 2. Necessary tools to advocate successfully 3. Networking- why is this important? 4. A Force to be Reckoned With: Prepared readiness for political or social activism- how to become legitimized or, “Please Don’t Dismiss Me”.

Part II: Interactive Participation with Conference Attendees



This last half of the presentation will include workshop attendees, breaking off in regional groups to discuss what changes would be made if effective activism could be formed in their specified regions. 1. What changes would you like to see made in your area? 2. What methods would you take to change ineffective systems of oppression? 3. Who would you involve to legitimize your cause?
Tuesday 5:50-6:30 Judy Guerin and Dick Cunningham: Developing Effective Issue Advocacy Campaigns
• Building alliances with the kink community (BDSM, poly, swing, pagan, etc.) and legal/policy issues of common interest
• Developing effective issue advocacy campaigns (understanding self-interests and building coalitions, as well as how to approach governmental decision makers and the pros and cons of various tactics—i.e. picketing, civil disobedience, etc.) We would want someone very involved in the sex worker movement who has actively worked on a real campaign (such as Carol Leigh, who we worked with on the San Francisco ballot initiative to decriminalize prostitution)
• Working to build stronger alliances amongst sex workers—dancers, porn workers, prostitutes, pro dommes and everyone else
• How all of those other antiquated sex laws (other than prostitution laws) come into play and why sex workers should work to get rid of all antiquated sex laws. This would include a recap of many of the antiquated sex laws throughout the U.S.
Track C- Art, Entertainment, and Media
Tuesday 5:00-6:30 Storytelling with Stephen Elliot
This writing workshop with Stephen Elliot will be gearing participants to focus on the written word and developing written memoir pieces which will be shared at the open mic performance on Tuesday evening of the conference.
Track D- Business Development
Tuesday 5:00-5:40 Furry Girl: "Solo Girl": An Introduction to Operating Your Own Porn Site
A "solo girl" site is adult webmaster terminology for a site that features content primarily of one model/performer, and tends to be focused on nudes, masturbation, and/or fetish content.  Furry Girl has been operating her own solo girl site, FurryGirl.com, since January of 2003, and has also expanded into running a small online store and three other niche porn sites.  Unlike most solo girl or amateur sites that purport to be run by the model they feature, but are actually run by the woman's husband/boyfriend or a company, FurryGirl.com has been mostly solo adventure.  Furry Girl will walk you through the basics of why you might want to run a solo girl site, some legal and business issues to be aware of, privacy concerns, deciding on your online niche/persona, needed equipment and computer gear, why you need to know how to run everything by yourself, content production and editing- including shooting your own photos, building a navigable adult site, billing, promotion, viewer interaction, managing an affiliate program, and networking with other adult webmasters.  (Since she's not a man or a trans person and doesn't have personal experience running queer/male/trans solo sites, the focus of Furry Girl's presentation and its language is on women, but most of the information is applicable to other genders as well.)
Tuesday 5:50-6:30 Danielle dv8 & Vegan Vixen: Phone and Cam Sex for Profit! or Lights, Web Cam, Action!
Ever wanted to make money from the safety and security of your own home while still getting yourself off? This class is designed to give you all the information you need to start your own business as a phone sex operator taught by an experienced and successful sex worker. This class is invaluable and will save you a great deal of time and energy. How to get started, branding, marketing, camera angles, lighting, toys, working with male/female/trans partners, techniques, and so much more. 

If you are a live Internet entertainer, considering doing webcam, or somebody who is just curious, then this is the workshop for you!  Vegan Vixen has been a webcam entertainer since 2002, and is thrilled to share insights she has gained through her experience working for different webcam sites with various working conditions.   She has experienced the ups and downs of doing live webcam.  The freedom to set her own rates and work her own schedule,   respectful clients, creativity, variety, and providing pleasure are what she likes most about being a webcam entertainer.  Disrespectful clients, companies and individuals who try to rip off entertainers and the technical problems that sometimes occur are what she likes least. 



Live Internet is a vast, dynamic, and constantly evolving field.   The workshop will address the following topics:
·         Creative webcam entertaining techniques
·         Working at home vs. working in a studio
·         Free chat vs. pay-per-view
·         Working independently  vs. working for a company
·         Different types of webcam sites
·         Building  a clientele
·         Price setting (per minute or per blocks of time)
·         Safety and privacy issues
·         Props
·         Doing webcam with or without audio
Tuesday 5:00-6:30 Lee Harington: On Their Knees: Tools for Professional Erotic Dominance
So you've decided that you want to be a professional dominant or dominatrix, what now? We will discuss the role of persona development, what to offer, and how to decide upon issues like tribute and limits before meeting up with clients. Then we will turn to the issue of negotiation, reading body language, setting the stage, making things memorable, and the types of sessions out there that people enjoy and how they each tend to go... or how to make them your own. We will also take a serious look at issues of getting your name out there, how to decide upon personal ethics in professional domination, keeping yourself sane in this line of work, and the issue of sticking to our guns while retaining the interest of our adoring fans.
Track E- Harm Reduction and Outreach
Tuesday 5:00-5:30 Joyce Arthur: Violating Sex Workers (Cross-listed with Track A) 
Tuesday 5:30-6:00 Jill McCracken:Violence and Policy (Cross-listed with Track A) 
Tuesday 6:00-6:30 Cheryl Radeloff: Having a Seat at the Table (Cross-listed with Track A) 
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

10:15-11:00am Breakfast Keynote: Norma Jean Almodovar
Wednesday 11:45am-1:30 Sessions
Track A- Academic and Policy
Wednesday 11:45-12:00 Alexis M. Roth: Risk Negotiation During Transactional Sexual Exchanges (Cross-listed with Track E)
Street-level commercial sex has been associated with increased risk of physical and sexual violence, acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (STI), and arrest. Attention to the larger contexts of violence, drug use, and dependence on men for economic survival that predict STI acquisition is critical.  Understanding the factors that impact women’s ability to protect themselves in transactional sexual encounters warrants further investigation especially in order to design effective STI prevention and care programs. As part of a larger study, women who recently engaged in transactional sex were recruited utilizing incentivized snowball sampling. Respondents completed STI testing and a face-to-face interview that included open-ended questions about protective health behaviors, including, “Tell me what you do to protect yourself when you are working.” “What you do to protect your sexual health?” and “How easy is it to use condoms with tricks?” Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and coded thematically. This sample included 25 participants aged 19-65 (median=37). Most women reported intermittent condom use (especially with boyfriends, husbands or regulars) however a variety of other protective strategies were utilized during street-level sex work. These included: visually assessing johns, avoiding men who are perceived as dangerous, preselecting sex locations, carrying condoms, and avoiding ejaculate.   Of the 25 women interviewed, 15 tested positive for at least one STI.  Interventions to increase sex worker safety may be improved by recognizing that women engaging in transactional sex routinely utilize other risk-reduction techniques in addition to condom use. It is critical to understand how self-protective behaviors are assigned monetary values during the transactional negotiation portion of these interactions.  The respondents in this sample were disproportionately infected with STI. The women were motivated to protect themselves and wanted to use condoms but their ability to consistently negotiate condoms was low. Increased understanding of other protective strategies will improve STI control efforts for this population by encouraging alternative methods for promoting health and safety.
Wednesday 12:00-12:30 Tamara O’Doherty: Research with sex workers: Employing Collaborative, Action-Based Research Methods
This presentation reports findings on the experience of conducting collaborative, action-based research with sex workers in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The research, driven by a collaborative team of sex workers, demonstrates the diversity of experiences for women involved in sex industry work and challenges assumptions about violence and victimization in the sex industry. The author discusses the challenges and benefits of academic and community partnerships to produce ethically-created and accurate knowledge about sex industry work in Canada. The presentation discusses unintended and harmful effects of certain forms of research and highlights strategies suggested by sex workers and critical researchers to work collaboratively to address social justice and human rights. The author recently completed a research project exploring women's victimization in the off-street sector of the sex industry in Canada.
Wednesday 1:00-1:30 Methodology discussion led by Elizabeth Nanas
Track B- Activism
Wednesday 11:45-12:25 Vegan Vixen: The U.S. Sex Workers’ Rights Movement:  Past, Present, and Future
How did the U.S. sex workers’ rights movement begin? How has the movement changed and remained the same over time? What have been the major successes and struggles of the movement? What direction is the movement headed in? This presentation will address each of these question and more. Since the movement officially began in 1973 when Margo St. James brought together sex workers to form “Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics” (COYOTE), various new leaders, organizations, and issues have emerged. Though COYOTE is no longer an active sex workers’ rights organization, the movement continues to preserve and grow, with a lot of geographical expansion occurring in the U.S. over the past few years and new activists entering the movement.

We will begin with an activity in which participants will privately express our journeys to sex worker justice advocacy through writing, drawing, or both. Then, we will have the option to share what we wrote with the group. As a group, we will discuss the similarities and differences between our journeys to this movement, offering support to each other.


Wednesday 12:30-1:30 Penelope Saunders and Bhavana Nancherla: Building Membership of Local Organizations and SWOP Chapters through Community Organizing: Findings, Presentation & Collective Brainstorming Session
Following the National Sex Worker Leadership Institute in October 2007, sex worker activists noticed that they were receiving requests for information about community organizing in various areas across the country. Specifically, newly forming local groups found that many new members, including both sex workers and allies, stopped coming to meetings after one or two visits and did not get linked into the sex worker rights movement or actions. SWOP-USA could provide information about campaigns, but there was a gap in resources containing information on how to build community in emerging local organizations such as SWOP chapters. As a result, Best Practices Policy Project took up the task of speaking with organizers across the US to create a basic guide to building local organizations through engaging membership, leadership development and mentoring.

As these conversations began, sex worker activists across the country shared more than just tips for organizing; SWOP chapter organizers shared stories of successful organizing, challenges and concerns in their local communities, and questions which they wondered how other organizers answered and dealt with. Most of all, the process of creating a community organizing guide revealed that many organizers wanted a means to converse with others in different parts of the country in order to learn from each others' experiences.

This workshop will share the information we gained from our interviews and distribute the report developed by both BPPP and SWOP USA. The workshop will also draw on the experiences of key local organizations that have confronted the challenge of how to effectively build membership and community organize, allow groups to connect and brainstorm. This workshop is for people who have begun to community organize or are planning to. We will also give some suggestions about how to build social justice type local groups, too (ie diverse groups).

Beyond presenting the trends for local organizing documented in this guide, the purpose of this panel would be to create space for dialogue on the many issues/challenges identified as part of the guide development process. This conversation would be facilitated through group discussion, which could center around questions such as:

How can chapters support each others' development?

What would chapters want to know from each others' experiences?

Would it make sense for chapters to communicate on a regular basis? If so, what would be the best means for facilitating this communication?

How would organizers present in this conversation like to continue this conversation or move forward with this dialogue?



As a mix of both presentation and discussion, this panel would hopefully act as a stepping stone for creating networks of support for SWOP activists across the country.
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