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Membership
information:
Is your organization interested in becoming
a member of the Alliance? Please email us at info@desireealliance.org
. Membership means you and/or your organization believe
in our mission statement below:
The Desiree
Alliance is a diverse, sex worker-led network of organizations,
communities, and individuals across the US working in harm
reduction, direct services, political advocacy, and health
services for sex workers. We provide leadership and create
space for sex workers and supporters to come together to
advocate for human, labour, and civil rights for all workers
in the sex industry.
Our partners can
be found here.
Our
member organizations include, but are not limited to:
 Sex
Workers' Outreach Project, USA (SWOP-USA)
"Sex
Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national social justice
network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers
and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma
through education and advocacy."
SWOP
NW
SWOP NYC (also SWANK)
SWOP LA
SWOP
Tuscon
SWOP
LV (also SCAPA)
SWOP
East
SWOP Chicago
SWOP Michigan
SWOP-NOLA
African
Sex Worker Alliance (ASWA)
The African Sex Worker Alliance (ASWA) is a project housed
at the Sex Worker Education & Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT),
an NGO based in Cape Town, South Africa. ASWA was formed to
help bring an end to the human rights violations perpetrated
against sex workers and to build in its place an enabling
human rights environment in which sex workers enjoy the full
scale of their rights. This includes being afforded equal
protection of the law and opportunity to practice sex work
without fear of prejudice in their communities.
Best
Practices Policy Project
"The Best Practices Policy Project is an organization
dedicated to creating excellence amongst organizations and
advocates working with sex workers in the United
States. We produce materials
for policy environments, address research and academic concerns
and provide NGOs with technical assistance. Everything that
we do is guided by principles that protect the rights of people
who engage in commercial sex in all its forms."
Different
Avenues
"Different Avenues is a tax-exempt, non-profit agency
located in northwestern Washington, DC. We provide services
to youth and young adults, ages 12 to 30 years, who are homeless
or living in insecure housing. Many of our clients are transgendered,
gay, lesbian or bisexual. We also help youth who themselves
are parents, as well as parents of youth. We work with people
who engage in street survival strategies, including sex for
favors."
Bay
Area Sex Workers' Advocacy Network
"Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network, is an organization
in the San Francisco Bay Area which works to improve working
conditions, increase benefits, and eliminate discrimination
on behalf of individuals working within both legal and criminalized
adult entertainment industries. The organization provides
expert advice and sensitive and timely information to social
service, policy reformers, media outlets, politicians including
the San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution and Commission
on the Status of Women (COSW) and law enforcement agencies
dealing with sex workers."
Veronica
Monet
"Veronica Monet graduated as an honor student from Oregon
State University in 1982, with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology
and a minor in Business Administration. After working in corporate
settings for seven years, she spent the next 14 years acquiring
experience with the practical and political aspects of sex
work as an erotic model, porn actress, prostitute, escort,
and courtesan. Ms. Monet has become very popular with the
media and the public as her extensive television, radio, magazine,
newspaper, book credits and lecture venues reveal!"
COYOTE
"COYOTE ("Call Off Your Tired
Ethics") was founded by Margo St. James in 1973. COYOTE
works for the rights of all sex workers: strippers, phone
operators, prostitutes, porn actresses etc. of all genders
and persuasions. COYOTE supports programs to assist sex workers
in their choice to change their occupation, works to prevent
the scapegoating of sex workers for AIDS and other STDs, and
to educate sex workers, their clients and the general public
about safe sex."
HIPS
"HIPS' mission is to assist female, male, and
transgendered individuals engaging in sex work in Washington,
DC in leading healthy lives. Utilizing a harm reduction model,
HIPS' programs strive to address the impact that HIV/AIDS,
STIs, discrimination, poverty, violence and drug use have
on the lives of individuals engaging in sex work."
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