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DESCRIPTION:Monday, May 20th 5-9 PM (dinner provided)\nHospitality House, 290 Turk 
 Street, SF 94102\n\nThis session of the 4 workshops will introduce the 
 InterseXionality series; an interactive and skills-based workshop that will 
 explore and unpack what it means to be an intersectional movement - a 
 movement made up of many overlapping experiences from our race, class, 
 gender, sexuality, ability, size, education, health, legal status, religion 
 belief/practice, country of origin, housing status, language, and our many 
 other lived experiences that we carry with us everyday. Together we will do 
 self-work and collective work to build common understanding of language 
 around oppression and power as well as deepen our understanding of our 
 individual experiences within this larger movement as a way of moving 
 towards healing and transformation of the conflicts and tensions that keep 
 us from having a stronger movement.\n\nThe San Francisco Sex Worker Film 
 and Arts Festival is offering a 4-day series of workshops, "Privilege, 
 Oppression, and InterseXionality," organized in conjunction with Rhizome 
 Consulting Project. a collaboration of social justice consultants working 
 with grassroots and movement building organizations in the Bay Area.\n\nThe 
 workshops run from Monday, May 20th to Thursday, May 23rd, 2013. All 
 locations are ADA accessible. Childcare, translation and signing services 
 are available upon request. We also ask you to assist us in making this a 
 scent free environment (see peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html ). 
 Please email sexworkerfest@gmail.com or call 510-410-4318 to request these 
 or other options. Also see Logistics/Accessibility.\n\n\nCurrent and former 
 sex workers as well as individuals who engage in sex trade and their allies 
 and families will be coming together to join this much needed and greatly 
 missing lens on working towards the safety, health, and dignity of all 
 people involved in sex work.\n\n\nCost: There is no charge, however 
 donations are gladly accepted to help cover event expenses. We also seek 
 funds from supportive sponsors and organizations.\n\nPlease call 
 510-410-4318 for more info\n\nTo register for InterseXionality, 
 visit:\n\nRhizome "is committed to transformational processes and social 
 justice movement building to uproot the systems of oppression that 
 perpetuate state and interpersonal violence and generational poverty. We 
 work to instead replace them with liberatory and beautiful structures and 
 practices."\n\n\n"Poor people, young people, immigrants, people of color 
 and others in our communities are under attack with increasingly oppressive 
 laws and policies being enacted and enforced to further criminalize acts of 
 survival," explains Lisa Marie Alatorre of Rhizome. "As a larger movement 
 and community of sex workers, we want to challenge those systems of 
 oppression collectively. Rather than allow them to fracture our work, we 
 aim to heal and build together."\n\nJoin other sex workers and allies 
 coming together to build support, understanding and communication within 
 our communities and to deepen our awareness of class/race/gender and how 
 they overlap and intersect. We will build tools to challenge and overcome 
 oppression as we work towards creating an inclusive space to organize and 
 strengthen our communities. We will explore identities, the dynamics of 
 power and discrimination and how they interact within the sex worker 
 communities, addressing our diversities including race, class, age, size, 
 abilities, religion/belief/practice, country of origin, housing status, 
 language, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, legal status and 
 more.\n\n"As a sex worker activist, I have seen that issues of class, race 
 and privilege have been scary and divisive. Our preparation for these 
 workshops has been mind and heart opening and I really appreciate this 
 guidance." says Carol Leigh from BAYSWAN.\n\n"My mind was blown in the 
 first 15 minutes of the ARAO training with Rhizome. Having been a radical 
 leftist and activist for over 20 years, I had spent a lot of time thinking 
 and talking about oppression, but now I realize that I had never really 
 gone beyond the concepts of race and class," Shannon Williams from SWOP 
 explains. "This training taught me that there is so much more to it than 
 that. I have undergone some intense personal growth as a result of this 
 training, growth that will make me a better person, and a better 
 activist."\n\nLocations and times vary. (See above.) Space is somewhat 
 limited. We will also offer on site registration, but reservations should 
 be made in advance. Interested people should call 510-410-4318 to learn 
 more about this project or to register, click here to sign up or just email 
 us at sexworkerfest@gmail.com and let us know you are interested. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/17/18737012.php
SUMMARY:Privilege, Oppression, and InterseXionality
LOCATION:Hospitality House, 290 Turk Street, SF 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/17/18737012.php
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