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Not all sex workers are trying to get out of the industry or נערות ליווי בחדרה נערות ליווי במרכז in need of help. Some people do enter into the sex industry without educating themselves about what they are getting into and may need help. The Festival is no space for violence, sexual assault, touching people without their consent, being intolerant of someone’s religious beliefs or נערות ליווי בחדרה lack thereof, being creepy, sleazy, racist, ageist, sexist, heterosexist, homophobic, transphobic, cissexist, ableist, classist, sizeist, sex negative or any other behaviour or language that may perpetuate oppression. People attending the Melbourne Festival of Sex Work are asked to be aware of their language and behaviour and to think about whether it might be offensive to others. We want everyone who attends the Melbourne Festival of Sex Work to be aware of this safer spaces policy. We may like to think of the Melbourne Festival of Sex Work as an alternative space where people reject the prejudices associated with ‘mainstream’ anti-sex work values. However, sex worker communities can often carry the same prejudices as the so-called mainstream and we all need to address this.

3) Don’t Judge. Know your own prejudices and realise that not everyone shares the same opinions as you. If you know of someone who is new to the industry or נערות ליווי באשקלון נערות ליווי באשדוד בבת ים in an abusive situation with an employer, 5escortgirls by all means offer advice and support without being condescending. We want people who aren’t sex workers to come along to public events and learn what it takes to support sex workers. We know sex work can be hard at times and festival organisers do not want to make invisible these experiences. If you know a sex worker, it’s OK to engage in dialogue with them in private, but respect their privacy surrounding their work in public settings. Don’t assume you know that a person is in the sex industry and their reasons for being there. It’s not your place to pass judgement on how another person earns the money they need to survive. If you cherished this write-up and you would like to receive additional info regarding 5escortgirls kindly visit our own website. However, the festival is a constructive and positive space; it is not the right place for working through people’s personal issues; it is not the space to attack or critique any individual sex worker.

Generally, all workshops during the day and social events during the festival will be sex worker only spaces. While we are responsive to concerns individuals have regarding the operation of our festival we will not tolerate abuse or harassment of individual Festival organisers or the collective. Don’t tell someone to get a «real job» when they already have one that suits them just fine. Don’t ask for real names, call at all hours of the day/night, or think that your favourite sex worker is going to enter into a relationship with you off the clock. 6) Don’t Play Rescuer. We want the experience sex workers have at the festival to be a positive one. It must also be made clear to participants that they can leave the event whenever they want and should debriefing be necessary, festival organisers will arrange this in accordance with our Safer Spaces Policy. 2. Privacy and confidentiality of participants is paramount.

1. Event content must not discriminate, exclude or perpetuate stigma against its potential participants. The end of Festival party will be a strictly invite only event. The art exhibition, public forums, public action and film nights will be public events. 3. Sex worker only events will be promoted in forums that are clearly and explicitly sex worker only networks. The Festival organisers acknowledge that negotiating safety in a sex worker only space is different to negotiating safety at a public event. No participant is compelled to attend any public event if they do not wish, and participation in the festival can be entirely at sex worker only events if the participant wishes. Any planned event content that may be at all traumatic (including discussions of violence, abuse, suicide) must be made clear to participants prior to the event. Each event, its facilitators and participants must avoid making judgements and/or promoting prejudice about race, sex, gender, sexuality, ability, drug use, mode of sex work, legal status, and mental health.

If it is necessary to be exempt from this (for example, a workshop’s content may only be relevant for only cisfemale participants), these stipulations and the reasons for them must be made explicit to festival organisers and will be absolutely clear from the beginning in all promotional material. This will be done through promotional strategies that enable a degree of verification . This statement will be in the program, reader, website, displayed around the venue and hopefully it will come up in discussions. Where a workshop is not sex worker only, this will be made clear in the non-public festival guide. All of us have to challenge our own internalised sex worker stigma. 4. No one has the right to compel an individual to produce evidence of their status as a sex worker. This Festival is a celebration of Sex Work. The Festival strives to create a safer space for sex workers, even at public events. 6. Festival organisers are sex workers. At no time are you acting on behalf of the collective.