Sex Work Awareness: Calendar Benefit

The calendar project has been good clean (well, maybe not that clean) fun for our community to rally together and create a cool and memorable product together. Plus, have you heard that there will be a party?

But as fun as the project is, it’s not just fun. It’s also a fundraiser for Sex Work Awareness (SWA), an organization that works to do public education around sex workers’ issues and to support sex workers in speaking for themselves.

Since its official debut in March 2008, SWA has launched a handful of projects that fulfill its mission. Last year, SWA developed a media training workshop called Speak Up! Media Training for the Empowered Sex Worker, which was previously taught in abbreviated forms in Las Vegas and Chicago at the Desiree Alliance conferences. Using funds raised from sales of the Sex Blogger Calendar, we were able to grow the workshop into a day long session. The first workshop took place at the Harm Reduction Coalition in New York City on April 18th, 2008 and with further funding we plan to expand to a weekend-long workshop that will include guest speakers and more media-making fun. The participants of the workshop finished the training ready to take on the world both as media-makers and savvy interviewees.

During the workshop, we also created the following public service announcement:

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When you buy a calendar or a raffle ticket at the party, you’re helping to support Sex Work Awareness and the next Speak Up workshop, which will be bigger and better than the last one!

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