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ENG Sexworkerstransforming Economic Power 0.Pdf SEX WORKERS TRANSFORMING ECONOMIC POWER TO ADVANCE Women’S RIGHTS AND JUSTICE POST 2012 AWID INTERNATIONAL FORUM INNOVATION SEED GRANTS Sex Workers Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice. Post 2012 AWID International Forum Innovation Seed Grants The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is an international feminist, membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights. AWID’s mission is to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women’s rights advocates, organizations and movements internationally to effectively advance the rights of women. For more information on AWID: www.awid.org Author: AWID Contributors: Seed Grantees SZEXE (Hungary), Red Umbrella Project (USA), Debolina Dutta in collaboration with DMSC and VAMP (India), and AMA (Myanmar) Design and layout: Storm. Diseño + Comunicación Acknowledgments: AWID is grateful for the support from Open Society Foundations’ Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP), whose funding for the four Seed Grants (and this publication) builds continuity from the support they provided to enhance meaningful involvement of sex worker activists in both the preparatory process and at the AWID Forum itself. We also want to express our special appreciation to the organizations and individuals who led these seed grants—SZEXE (Hungary), Red Umbrella Project (USA), Debolina Dutta in collaboration with DMSC and VAMP (India), and AMA (Myanmar)—for submitting their creative and thoughtful proposals and for sharing their experience and learning. ©2015 Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) This publication may be redistributed non-commercially in any media, unchanged and in whole, with credit given to AWID and the authors. www.creativecommons.org Published by Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) in Toronto, Mexico City, Cape Town. 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 150, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7 Canada Website: www.awid.org Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 416.594.3773 Fax: +1 416.594.0330 Introduction 2 Sex Workers at the 2012 AWID Forum 2 How the sex workers leading these projects are transforming economic power 4 Summary of the Four Seed Grant initiatives 7 1. Sex worker rights are human rights (Hungary) 7 Outcomes 8 Insights 8 2. Memoir Storytelling Workshop (USA) 9 Outcomes 10 Insights 11 3. Sex, Fun and Money (India) 12 Outcomes 12 Insights 13 4. Opening bank accounts to save money (Myanmar) 14 Outcomes 14 Insights 15 About the Seed Grant Recipients 16 2 INTRODUCTION SEX WORKERS AT THE 2012 AWID FORUM This report shares highlights and insights from the four recipients of AWID’s “Innovation Seed Grants” whose Considering the theme of Transforming Economic Power to projects focused on advancing the rights of sex work- Advance Women’s Rights and Justice, AWID was particu- ers. These projects reflect the culmination of a process larly interested in ensuring strong, meaningful engage- of engagement and collaboration between AWID and ment by sex workers in the 2012 Forum. The on-going diverse sex worker groups and coalitions around our financial crisis and economic recession in many parts of 2012 International Forum on Women’s Rights and the world as well as long-lasting results of structural ad- Development. justment policies have had negative impacts on women, Organized around the theme of Transforming Eco- including increasing inequalities, unemployment and nomic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice, the migration. Women are faced with ever narrowing op- 2012 Forum sought to help participants gain a stron- portunities to secure economic livelihoods. Sex workers ger understanding around economic issues; re-energize of all genders find themselves particularly challenged by participants, especially with regard to their engagement daily realities of stigma, criminalization and exclusion. in economic debates; link and connect diverse women’s Many have limited knowledge of human rights frame- rights advocates, movements and allies; and contribute works, or limited identification of themselves as subjects to forward-looking proposals for transforming econom- of rights. At the same time, the sex worker movement ic power. Linked to this last objective, AWID mobilized has been engaged in incredibly exciting and powerful resources for “Innovation Seed Grants” to support Fo- organizing in recent years to secure recognition of their rum participants to convert some of the creative ideas, rights and it was important to AWID to feature these solutions, and connections sparked at the Forum into experiences prominently within the Forum. Recogniz- reality. Following the 2012 Forum, AWID was able ing that some women’s rights spaces have excluded sex to award a total of twenty-four USD 5,000 seed grants. workers or not featured their voices, we felt it important that the Forum ensure recognition and visibility of sex media as well as bloggers signaled that the event worker voices, proposals and realities and tackle head on indeed raised the profile and understanding of sex some of the divisions within our movements that have workers’ rights as they relate to economic power. prevented stronger solidarity and collaboration. • Ensuring inclusion of sex workers in the Forum To this end, AWID felt it was important to go be- program, including four breakout sessions either yond just supporting sex worker presence at the 2012 organized by or including presentations from Forum and to support the meaningful involvement of sex workers. In addition, Kaythi Win, Chairper- sex workers organizations and networks in both the son of the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers preparatory process and the AWID 2012 Forum itself, (APNSW), Myanmar spoke during the Forum profiling sex worker rights within the larger debate on plenary on day 3 of the Forum. Win brought a transforming economic power and justice. To do this, majority of the audience to their feet to join her AWID embarked on a substantive preparatory pro- in declaring “sex work is work”. 3 cess in collaboration with the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and the Asia Pacific Network As a result of these activities, Forum attendees were able of Sex Workers (APNSW) that included: to deepen relationships and build knowledge toward increased capacity of working together to advance sex • Identifying 23 sex workers from 15 countries to worker rights. APNSW and NSWP reported that, ‘the receive support from AWID’s Access Fund, cov- forum created a space to help weave sex work into complex issues ering travel costs to attend the Forum. and we found a space for ourselves.’ In the forum evaluation • Consideration of the comfort and security of sex 80% of responding sex workers reported that they felt worker participants, e.g. careful selection of room- greater solidarity for the issues or struggle that they fo- mates for Access Fund recipients placed in double cus on. A sex worker activist affirmed this saying, “Sex rooms, pre-arrangements with hotels to prevent workers’ issues got a new place at the Forum and lots of expo- harassment (and even then challenges were faced). sure during and after…which will help with my work as a sex • Supporting preparation of a briefing paper by the worker activist.” AWID heard from many Forum partici- Center for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisa- pants who found the engagement with sex workers at tion (CASAM). The paper covered each of the the Forum an important contribution to their Forum Forum sub-themes and discussed their relevance experience and others who were still challenged to ac- for sex workers. cept sex work as work. Nevertheless, during elections • APNSW and NSWP co-organized a one-day for AWID’s International Board of Directors in 2012, Pre-Forum meeting of over 40 sex workers from sex worker activist (and plenary speaker) Kaythi Win diverse regions to help orient them to the Forum was elected by the AWID membership. Representatives space and discuss the Forum themes. Part of the of the Aids Myanmar Association National Network of strategy developed during the pre-meeting was to Sex Work Projects said that for them, Win’s election convene collective debriefs at the end of each day, “signaled a turning point in the relationship between sex work- as well as a solidarity strategy for Kaythi Win’s ers and the broader feminist movement.” plenary speech, to support her in raising aware- Following the Forum, AWID launched the In- ness of sex worker issues. novation Seed Grant application process. Consider- • Ensuring visibility of sex worker organizing ing the significant and on-going challenges faced by through a dedicated ‘Sex Worker Area’ with a women’s rights organizations in accessing resources for multi-media exhibition, advocacy videos and their work1, we feel these seed grants are a particularly artwork used in various campaigns advocating for the rights of sex workers. In addition, post- 1 See AWID’s recent report, Watering the Leaves, Starving Forum coverage by mainstream and alternative the Roots. important strategy, especially for historically discrimi- HOW THE SEX WORKERS nated and excluded groups, such as sex workers, to LEADING THESE PROJECTS access funding to make their ideas a reality. Open So- ciety Foundations’ Sexual Health and Rights Project ARE TRANSFORMING ECONOMIC POWER provided funding for the four grants focused on sex worker organizing. The selection process for all seed grants was led by an advisory committee made up of Following are the stories of the seed grant experi- members
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