November 8, 2011
Racializing Sexual Economies: Sex Trade, Trafficking, And The Political Agency Of People Of Color & Indigenous People
11.08.2011 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
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(link is external)
- Shira Hassan, Young Women’s Empowerment Project(link is external)
- 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(link is external)
- Elizabeth Sy, Banteay Srei
- Andrea Ritchie, Streetwise & Safe(link is external), and co-author of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States(link is external)
- Native Youth Sexual Health Network(link is external)
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