seminar this Thurs, Georgetown U in DC

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The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
Cordially invites you to its Ninth Annual Symposium:

Sex Work Explored:
Rethinking the Laws Regulating Prostitution

1-4 p.m., Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Hart Auditorium in McDonough Hall
Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Ave, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001

Key Note Address [1 pm]

The Key Note address will explore the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the sex workers' rights movement and will highlight recent legal initiatives and goals pertaining to the health, safety, and human rights of those involved in sex work.

Carol Leigh
Sex Worker Activist and Performer
Director of the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network

Robyn Few
Executive Director, Sex Workers' Outreach Project

Panel Discussion [2 pm]

The Panel discussion will entertain divergent viewpoints related to alternative legal regimes for regulating prostitution, the maximization of health and safety for sex workers, and how normative feminist, queer theory, and sexuality discourses engage the issue of sex work.

Juhu Thukral, J.D., Director of the Sex Workers Project

Melissa Ditmore, PhD, Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects

Denise Brennan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University

Marc Spindelman, J.D. Associate Professor of Law at Mortiz College of Law, Ohio State University

G.G. Thomas, Client Advocate and Program Assistant at Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive

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The DC HIPS program (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) passes itself off officially as a "neutral" organization but their actions, like promoting prostitution as work as here, reveal their real goal is not as neutral as they proclaim.

[Starburst]

I hate how "sex work" has pushed it's way into academia. And here I'd like to make a career in academia.