FW: Reminder: Sex Work Forum, Nov 26: TRANSITions - Navigating Borders, Work, Law and Justice

[Haden, Mark [VC]]

 

 

Hello FIRST supporters!  Our forum is now just a week away and the excitement is building!

Below is a reminder of the details, and attached is our poster.

Please feel free to share this invite among your networks and invite your friends along. We really hope to see you there!

Joyce Arthur

 

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November 26: FIRST Community Forum
TRANSITions – Navigating Borders

Work, Law and Justice

 

VANCOUVER:  FIRST, a Vancouver-based national feminist advocacy group working in support of the human and labour rights of sex workers and for the decriminalization of prostitution, is organizing a community forum on sex work issues.

 

Community Forum Details

 

Date and Time: Tuesday November 26, 2013, 7 to 9 p.m.

 

Location:        SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1400, 515 West Hastings St., Vancouver

 

Topics and Speakers

 

Borders              Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking

Julie Ham and Sharon Pickering, Monash University, Australia

 

Work                  Sex work/square work: Exploring the dichotomy

Raven Bowen, Simon Fraser University

 

Law & Justice   “All my relations?” Sex work and self-determination

Sarah Hunt, Simon Fraser University

 

Moderator:  Kerry Porth, Pivot Legal Society.

 

Sponsored by:

 

UBC School of Nursing, SFU Department of History and the Dean of Arts, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Pivot Legal Society, PACE Society, and SWAN Vancouver.

 

FIRST Contacts:    Joyce Arthur, 604-351-0867,  joyce...@shaw.ca

                                 Esther Shannon, 604-254-9963, em...@shaw.ca