Art by Young Women’s Empowerment Project
Racializing Sexual Economies: Sex Trade, Trafficking, and the Political Agency of People of Color & Indigenous People
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Multicultural Community Center
200 Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union
UC Berkeley
A roundtable of activists and scholars will explore and challenge the political tensions in debates on sex trades, sex trafficking, public policy, institutional violence, and community organizing.
Speakers:
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Center for Race & Gender: Welcome & Introductions
- Annie Fukushima, UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures
- Shira Hassan, Young Women’s Empowerment Project
- Xandra Ibarra, $pread Magazine Race Issue co-editor
- Kamala Kempadoo, York University, editor of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
- Elizabeth Sy, Banteay Srei
- Andrea Ritchie, Streetwise & Safe, and co-author of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
- Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Refreshments served
Organized by the Center for Race & Gender in collaboration with Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures
Co-sponsored by Native American Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, Sociology, Center for South Asia Studies, American Cultures
Speakers in order of audio above:
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Center for Race & Gender
Welcome & Introductions - Annie Fukushima, UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures
Constructions of the trafficked person through a comparative lens
- Shira Hassan, Young Women’s Empowerment Project
Youth organizers building models for harm reduction and transformative justice
- Xandra Ibarra, $pread Magazine Race Issue co-editor
Mapping race politics in the sex industry
- Kamala Kempadoo, York University, editor of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
Three different perspectives on sex trafficking: abolitionist, criminal justice and transnational feminist
- Elizabeth Sy, Banteay Srei
Southeast Asian women and girls grassroots organizing in Oakland
- Andrea Ritchie, Streetwise & Safe, and co-author of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Resisting state criminalization of sex workers