‘World’s oldest oppression’ the first ever gathering of sex industry survivors and abolitionists in Australia, will be held at RMIT University in Melbourne next weekend.
The two day conference, April 9-10, will hear from survivors of the sex trade and abolitionist activists including Rachel Moran, author of Paid For, My Journey Through Prostitution and UK feminist and journalist Julie Bindel.
If you’d like to come to this special event, you can register here.
The conference will conclude with the launch on the Sunday afternoon of Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade, a collection of 20 personal accounts by women in Australia and internationally. Edited by Dr. Caroline Norma and myself, and published by Spinifex Press, we are so honoured that Rachel Moran and Julie Bindel will launch the book.
Here’s two of our contributors, Simone Watson and Caitlin Roper, having just received their copies of Prostitution Narratives. Simone wrote a powerful chapter about the reality of life in ‘massage parlours’ and Caitlin documented the attitudes of the punters and johns who purchase women for sex.
More about the book and how to order here.
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My name is .Gail Pryor I work for a NPO, Doctors For Life International. We have a project I am involved with called LIFEplace which deals with the prostitution issue, from offering the girls an exit strategy to help get them off the street and give them skills so they can be reintegrated back into society. We are also currently involved with court-cases regarding the legalization of prostitution in South Africa and would like to develop a working relationship with organizations such as yourself so we can share information and work together.