Sex, Drugs and Movement-Building

Sex, Drugs and Movement-Building 
Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Sex workers and drug users are both criminalized for what we do with our bodies, yet we don’t always work together. What are the connections between the sex worker advocacy movement and the drug policy reform movement? What lessons can we learn from each other? How have the laws criminalizing drug use and drug users been adapted and used against sex workers? What can we learn from the recent victory in Louisiana against an egregious form of stigmatizing and criminalizing sex workers? And how can we build stronger connections across these two movements to reach even larger victories? 

Facilitator: Meghan Ralston, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance, Los Angeles, CA

• Cyndee Clay, Executive Director, HIPS, Washington, DC  
• Nanna W. Gotfredsen, Lawyer, The Street Lawyers/Gadejuristen, Copenhagen, Denmark            
• Kiesha McCurtis, Project Coordinator, Desiree Alliance, Los Angeles, CA            
• Laura McTighe, Member, Board of Directors, Women with a Vision, New Orleans, LA    
• Katrina Pacey, Litigation Director, Pivot Legal Society, Vancouver, Canada         
• Andrea Ritchie, Co-Coordinator, Streetwise and Safe (SAS), New York, NY