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Privilege, Oppression and InterseXionality: A workshop for sex workers and allies

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In 2013 the Festival launches a four day series of workshops, "Privilege, Oppression, and InterseXionality," for sex workers and allies in conjunction with Rhizome Consulting Project, a collaboration of social justice consultants working with grassroots and movement building organizations in the Bay Area.

Current and former sex workers as well as individuals who engage in sex trade and their allies and families will be coming together to join this much needed and greatly missing lens on working towards the safety, health, and dignity of all people involved in sex work.

Rhizome "is committed to transformational processes and social justice movement building to uproot the systems of oppression that perpetuate state and interpersonal violence and generational poverty. We work to instead replace them with liberatory and beautiful structures and practices."

"Poor people, young people, immigrants, people of color and others in our communities are under attack with increasingly oppressive laws and policies being enacted and enforced to further criminalize acts of survival," explains Lisa Marie Alatorre of Rhizome. "As a larger movement and community of sex workers, we want to challenge those systems of oppression collectively. Rather than allow them to fracture our work, we aim to heal and build together."

"As a sex worker activist, I have seen that issues of class, race and privilege have been scary and divisive. Our preparation for these workshops has been mind and heart opening. I am so glad to have guidance from Shreya and Lisa Marie in Rhizome and I look forward to learning and changing."

Carol Leigh
BAYSWAN


"My mind was blown in the first 15 minutes of the ARAO training with Rhizome. Having been a radical leftist and activist for over 20 years, I had spent a lot of time thinking and talking about oppression, but now I realize that I had never really gone beyond the concepts of race and class. This training taught me that there is so much more to it than that. I have undergone some intense personal growth as a result of this training, growth that will make me a better person, and a better activist."


Shannon Williams
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP)


Join other sex workers and allies coming together to build support, understanding and communication within our communities and to deepen our awareness of class/race/gender and how they overlap and intersect. We will build tools to challenge and overcome oppression as we work towards creating an inclusive space to organize and strengthen our communities. We will explore identities, the dynamics of power and discrimination and how they interact within the sex worker communities.

Locations and times vary. Space is limited and registration is required. We will also offer on site registration, but reservations should be made in advance. Interested people should call 415-857-5425 to learn more about this project or to register.
In 2013 the Festival launches a four day series of workshops, "Privilege, Oppression, and InterseXionality," for sex workers and allies in conjunction with Rhizome Consulting Project, a collaboration of social justice consultants working with grassroots and movement building organizations in the Bay Area.

Current and former sex workers as well as individuals who engage in sex trade and their allies and families will be coming together to join this much needed and greatly missing lens on working towards the safety, health, and dignity of all people involved in sex work.

Rhizome "is committed to transformational processes and social justice movement building to uproot the systems of oppression that perpetuate state and interpersonal violence and generational poverty. We work to instead replace them with liberatory and beautiful structures and practices."

"Poor people, young people, immigrants, people of color and others in our communities are under attack with increasingly oppressive laws and policies being enacted and enforced to further criminalize acts of survival," explains Lisa Marie Alatorre of Rhizome. "As a larger movement and community of sex workers, we want to challenge those systems of oppression collectively. Rather than allow them to fracture our work, we aim to heal and build together."

"As a sex worker activist, I have seen that issues of class, race and privilege have been scary and divisive. Our preparation for these workshops has been mind and heart opening. I am so glad to have guidance from Shreya and Lisa Marie in Rhizome and I look forward to learning and changing."

Carol Leigh
BAYSWAN


"My mind was blown in the first 15 minutes of the ARAO training with Rhizome. Having been a radical leftist and activist for over 20 years, I had spent a lot of time thinking and talking about oppression, but now I realize that I had never really gone beyond the concepts of race and class. This training taught me that there is so much more to it than that. I have undergone some intense personal growth as a result of this training, growth that will make me a better person, and a better activist."


Shannon Williams
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP)


Join other sex workers and allies coming together to build support, understanding and communication within our communities and to deepen our awareness of class/race/gender and how they overlap and intersect. We will build tools to challenge and overcome oppression as we work towards creating an inclusive space to organize and strengthen our communities. We will explore identities, the dynamics of power and discrimination and how they interact within the sex worker communities.

Locations and times vary. Space is limited and registration is required. We will also offer on site registration, but reservations should be made in advance. Interested people should call 415-857-5425 to learn more about this project or to register.
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