Sex Workers, Save the Date! Chicago is the place to be in July

We are organizing for this event now, so mark the dates on your calendar. We are already lining up hotels and housing options and will be sending out a call for proposals soon. So if you are a sex worker and would like to attend, start making plans now. if you'd like to help out in planning the conference, join the Desiree Alliance.

If you live in Chicago, contact me and I will give you information on how to join SWOP-Chicago.


Save the Date!!

The Sex Worker Revolution is hitting Chi-Town!!

On July 16-20 of 2008, hundreds of sex workers and sex worker activists will converge on Chicago at the Desiree Alliance Conference:
Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work and Social Justice

The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities, and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy, and health services for sex workers. We provide leadership development and create space for sex workers and supporters to come together to advocate for human, labor, and civil rights for all workers in the sex industry.
The time to get active is NOW!

**Go to www.desireealliance .org and click on the "join the yahoo group"**
You will receive two monthly updates on this announcement list as Desiree Alliance starts to collect "calls for presentations" (got something to say?), registration for the conference, and general updates about the 2008 Desiree Alliance Conference.


Some of the workshops from last years conference in San Francisco:

"Know your Rights! A legal training for arrest and emergency response to arrest"

"Fundamental Safety for Sex Workers through Personal Privacy:
Legal and relatively simple ways of being "hidden" from clients and stalkers"

"Clicking beyond Craigslist: Marketing and working using the internet (by $pread)

"Roundtable discussion: Spiritual approaches to sex work; bringing back a courtesan ethic"

"Problems and Solutions: Educating the public and cultivating allies for sex workers rights"

"Entertainers guide to disabled clients"

"Legalizing Prostitution in order to fight trafficking for sexual exploitation:
a critical evaluation of anti-prostitution policies"

and much more!!


Thinking about sharing a workshop or training at the 2008 conference? Got something to share with other sex workers? Wanna learn new skills in both sex work and sex work activism? Just want to hang out with hundreds of radically minded hookers?

Join the Group!

Visit us online at: www.desireealliance .org

Questions? email info@desireeallianc e.org



The Desiree Alliance conference organizers are committed to support for representation and inclusiveness of cultural, racial, economic, age, and gender identity. Please read our Diversity Statement and join our efforts to build a respectful, diverse, and strong sex worker movement.