Thursday, June 24, 2010

at USSF on Fri: Sex Work or Sexual Slavery - The Empowerment Debate: an Exchange between Sunsara Taylor & Will Rockwell

Could sex work be de-criminalized, transformed and a means through which women are actually empowered or does sex work only serve to further subjugate and exploit women?

Fri. June 25 1-3:00 pm
at Revolution Books Outlet –Detroit
4152 Woodward Avenue
SE corner of Woodward & Willis
5 blocks south of Wayne State Univ


Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution newspaper (revcom.us) a host of WBAI's Equal Time for Freethought, and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can't Wait. She takes as her foundation the new synthesis on revolution and communism developed by Bob Avakian. You can find Sunsara’s various political commentary on things from abortion to religion to cultural relativism by searching “Sunsara Taylor” on youtube. This past spring, Sunsara was on a national campus speaking tour with her talk on “From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change: We Need Total Revolution!”

Will Rockwell is Editor-in-Chief of $pread magazine (spreadmagazine.org), a quarterly publication by and for people in the sex industry, as well as a former Associate Editor of the Global Network of Sex Work Project’s journal, Research for Sex Work (researchforsexwork.org). Will has participated in UN agency consultations, civil society coalitions, and fund committee meetings as a youth representative of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects in support of peer-led HIV treatment and services for people in the sex industry.

posted by Sunsara Taylor at 6:16 PM

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