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March 28, 2010
Call for guest blog, video, and graphic art submissions in preparation for Paradigm Shift’s next event:

“SEX WORK AND HUMAN RIGHTS: FEMINIST ADVOCACY STRATEGIES”

Panel Discussion & Screening Featuring:
SIENNA BASKIN, Esq., Staff Attorney, Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center
CHRISTINA CICCHELLI, Columnist, $pread magazine
MARYSE MITCHELL-BRODY, Co-Founder, Sex Workers Action New York
AUDACIA RAY, International Women’s Health Coalition & co-founder of Sex Work Awareness
WILL ROCKWELL, Editor, $pread magazine

Screening of “Sangram: Sex Worker Organizing In India” a collaboration between the International Women’s Health Coalition and SANGRAM
When: TUES, March 30th
Time: 7:00-10:00 pm
Buy tickets here!

Submission Deadline- March 28
Use these prompts as guidelines for submissions; essays, poetry, and artwork in all forms accepted:

- Discuss the empowering and/or disempowering aspects of sex work
- Positive or negative experiences as a sex worker or with sex workers
- The media’s image of sex workers
- The issue of choice and agency when performing sex work
- Human Rights issues of sex work and sex trafficking in poorer countries
- The pornography industry and its impact on women
- Feminist porn
- Response to books/media by sex workers
- Sex work and health
- Sex work & the law

Submit responses to blog@paradigmshiftnyc.com Please include how you would like to be credited (name, anonymous etc). Video submissions- please submit YouTube private link. Email subject line: Your Name- Blog post- 3/30 Event.

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