Our workshop wants to give space, on the one hand, to narrations and direct testimonies on the sex work and on the other, to considerations and reflections on the legislative systems, bringing the analysis and the desires of the sex workers who create paths of struggle throughout the world.
We would like to talk about sexwork starting from ourselves and our stories, because we think that such a complex and delicate subject should be addressed by giving voice to real experiences, and not to ideologies detached from the reality of things.
We believe in this political practice precisely because as feminists we do not want to speak and decide in our place, and we think that invisibility does nothing but foster isolation, discrimination and prejudices.
We know how different stories and experiences can be, so we will not use absolutizing language.
What interests us is raising questions, stimulating debate and reflection on this reality in the most open and dialogical way possible.
We know how difficult it is to expose ourselves and talk about this, because we know the weight of the stigma and the possible repercussions that anyone who could reveal a sexual job could suffer.
This is why we use fictitious names.
MAREA will speak starting from his experience as a sexworker and feminist, intertwining the personal story with theoretical reflections but very direct on self-determination and stigma.
Her speech will bring reflections on the relationship between feminism, sexuality and stigma, but also on patriarchy, sexwork and self-determination.
TIZ will instead tackle the world of sexwork from a more collective point of view talking about the many active organizations of sex workers and of what unites them not only in shared negative issues but also and above all in the requests that more and more are becoming a network .
The central point of this network is the request of the decriminalization of the sexwork, whose specific case in Italy will make IVONNE a deeper examination with the third and last intervention, from a purely legal point of view. rying to highlight the points that, even in legislative models apparently more “guaranteed”, they perpetuate a system of oppression of the sex workers through the stigma and criminalization of solidarity and support.
The interventions will be accompanied by slides and if it’s possible short videos.
We would like to dedicate the last part of the workshop to an interactive and collective moment with all the participants, who will be asked to express themselves writing on sheets in a game of reply and blow, about images and words that touch our imaginary linked to sexuality and sexwork.