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Chapter 18: Sex Workers’ Rights and Human Trafficking: When Human Rights Movements Violate Human Rights

CHAPTER 18: SEX WORKERS’ RIGHTS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: WHEN HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS

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Chapter 18 Guided Notes

CHAPTER SUMMARY:

ADDITIONAL NOTABLE MENTIONS:

CAROL LEIGH, SCARLOT HARLOT:

ROBYN FEW, SEX WORKERS’ OUTREACH PROJECT (SWOP) IN SAN FRANCISCO:

ZOE SPEARS AND ASHANTI CARMON:

KANDIS CAPRI:

JULES KIM:

DR. LOURDES ASHLEY HUNTER:

SEX WORK AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

“WHITE SLAVERY” PANIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY IN THE US:

UNDERAGE ENTRY INTO SEX WORK:

TRAFFICKING MYTHS, FACTS, AND STATISTICS:

CONFLATING CONSENSUAL SEX WORK WITH TRAFFICKING:

LACK OF CONCERN AROUND SEX WORK SAFETY:

LAWS/LEGALITY OF SEX WORK:

SESTA AND FOSTA:

LAWS AGAINST VARIOUS FORMS OF SEX WORK:

CRIMINALIZATION INCREASES EXPLOITATION:

HARM REDUCTION RATHER THAN CRIMINALIZATION:

LEGISLATION FOR DECRIMINALIZATION OF SEX WORK:

‘DECRIM NOW’ CAMPAIGN:

“PARTIAL DECRIM”, THE NORDIC MODEL – SEX WORKERS STILL SUFFERING:

PROHIBITION OF SEX WORK:

PORNOGRAPHY IS LEGAL BUT SEX WORK ISN’T – CAN’T SELL SEX ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS:

CATHOLIC LEGION OF DECENCY THOUGHT WHITE SLAVERY FILMS ABOUT BROTHELS WOULD MORALLY CORRUPT PEOPLE/MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION CODE:

GENDER MARKER BILL IN ARIZONA:

POLICE INTERACTION:

THE CONSTANT THREAT OF ARREST FOR SEX WORKERS:

CONSEQUENCES OF ARREST FOR SEX WORK:

PEER TASK FORCE AS PART OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT – GAY AND LESBIAN LIAISON UNIT:

ACCOUNTABILITY BEHIND BODY CAM FOOTAGE OF POLICE:

PHOENIX SPONSORED PROGRAM PROJECT ROSE – POLICE STING OPERATIONS FOCUSED ON SEX WORK:

MEDIA, STIGMA, AND STEREOTYPES:

MEDIA STEREOTYPES OF SEX WORKERS:

NARRATIVES AND PERCEPTIONS AROUND MALE SEX WORKERS/TRANS SEX WORKERS/PEOPLE OF COLOR WHO ARE SEX WORKERS:

SEX WORKERS HAVE INTERNALIZED SELF-STIGMA:

STIGMA OF TRANSGENDER WOMEN:

ISOLATION OF SEX WORKERS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T BE HONEST:

MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE DEATHS OF TRANS WOMEN / TRANS ISSUES IN GENERAL:

MARGINALIZED GROUPS:

YOUNG, OFTEN IMMIGRANT, WOMEN LURED INTO A BROTHEL:

MIGRANTS AND TRANSGENDER SEX WORKERS – RIGHTS:

SEX WORK AS A WAY OF SURVIVAL FOR MANY TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, PEOPLE IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR:

BLACK TRANS WOMEN NEED TO BE HIGHLIGHTED DURING THE BLM MOVEMENT:

GROUPS/PROJECTS/EVENTS:

SEX WORKER RIGHTS GROUPS:

SEX WORKER ADVOCATES COALITION (SWAC):

OUTLAW PROJECT:

INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE:

BLACK TRANS FUND FROM GROUNDSWELL:

“ABSTINENCE ONLY”:

UNITED NATIONS:

SEX WORKERS AT THE UN:

UPR RECOMMENDATIONS ON SEX WORK TO THE US:

PEOPLE OF COLOR AND TRANS PEOPLE:

PEOPLE OF COLOR AND TRANS PEOPLE MAKING MOVIES ABOUT AND FOR THEM:

COLORISM, WHITE SUPREMACY:

TRANSPHOBIA AND HOMOPHOBIA IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR:

OTHER TOPICS:

TRAFFIC IN SOULS:

WAR ON DRUGS:

STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE:

TERF (TRANS-EXCLUSIONARY, RADICAL FEMINISTS):

SERVICES/RESOURCES/ACTIVITIES:

HARM REDUCTION SERVICES: CONDOMS, STD TEST KITS:

RESOURCES FOR SEX WORKERS:

RESOURCES FOR ALLIES OF SEX WORKERS:

RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING/PREVENTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

STUDENT ACTIVITIES/HOW TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT SEX WORK:

Chapter 18: Sex Workers’ Rights And Human Trafficking: When Human Rights Movements Violate Human Rights

William Paul Simmons

Professor, Gender and Women's Studies; Director, Human Rights Practice Program (University of Arizona)

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