BAYSWAN
Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network
Providing information
about
Sex Worker Rights, Culture and Media
This website, a project of BAYSWAN, is specifically
geared
towards sex workers, activists, students and faculty.
Contact:
BAYSWAN-Carol
Leigh, Director
Box 210256
San Francisco, CA 94121
For further information call 415-751-1659
Or email us at info@bayswan.org
BAYSWAN's
central project has been production of the San
Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival since 1999.
BAYSWAN also provides consultation about sex worker rights issues
to local and international organizations through the Sex Worker Education
Network. Since 2014 BAYSWAN has worked closely with the San Francisco Mayor's Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, on the Sex Work and Trafficking Policy Impact Committee. The emphasis of this effort is an ongoing review of the impact of anti-trafficking policies on sex workers and other communities.
The
Sex Workers Education Network is primarily an information service (formerley
PENet, Prostitutes Education Network) which provides information for
sex workers, sex worker rights advocates and students about diverse sex industries. BAYSWAN links
individuals to resources provided by sex workers and other rights
based organizations.
The
Sex Workers Education Network highlights
legislative and cultural issues as they effect prostitutes and other
sex workers. The service is comprised of information for sex workers
and activists/educators who study issues of decriminalization, human
rights in the context of prostitution, violence against prostitutes
and women, trafficking issues from a sex worker rights perspective,
sex workers and pornography, as well as current trends in legislation
and social policy in the U.S. and internationally.Through
Sex Workers Education Network, sex workers and others who research
prostitution issues may find or request information and get connected
with others who advocate for sex workers' rights in their geographical
area.
Further
information about Carol Leigh, BAYSWAN Co-founder and director, is
available here.
Material
from the following organizations is included: The National Task Force
on Prostitution (U.S.), PONY- Prostitutes of New York (N.Y.), SWOP-Sex
Worker's Outreach Project (NSW, Australia), SWAC- Sex Worker's Action
Coalition (Oakland), Toronto Safe Sex Project, COYOTE -Call Off Your
Old Tired Ethics (San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle), HIRE- Hooking
Is Real Employment (Atlanta, Georgia), SIN- Sex Industry Network (Adelaide,
Australia), SWAV -Sex Worker's Alliance of Vancouver (British Columbia),
Danzine (Portland, Oregon), and the Exotic Dancer's Alliance (San
Francisco).Information distributed includes AIDS reports, materials
from The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Task Force on Prostitution,
testimony and stories by workers, health and community outreach reports,
sex worker art and more.