From the Young Women’s Empowerment Project
Join us Friday, December 14th for Wine and Hors d’ouvers at the Mekhanskhen Gallery 5459 S. Drexel in Chicago from 8pm to 11pm
We will exhibit pottery, wood prints, oil paintings, collage, sculpture, textiles, drawing, graffiti art & embroidery made by 12 different YWEP artists. Art and Prints will be available [...]
A bit slow this past week. So really only one article of note caught my attention.
Samantha Walker’s suicide at the age of 18 has impacted both Atlanta Georgia where she was taken against her will and became one of many teens involved in the sex trade there and her hometown of Toledo Ohio where she [...]
Early on when I first got involved working with organizations about prostitution some 17 years ago I was taught that one of the roles of someone who cared about youth involved in the sex trade was to uncover when someone was lying about their experience.
Mostly this meant not that I would doubt that they had [...]
Just one news item this week. But it brings to mind bigger questions.
From the Edmonton Sun today, Sex for shelter Here’s a small part below.
Youth workers call them the darkest, most disturbing tales of Edmonton’s housing crunch - girls, sometimes younger than 14, turning tricks on cold winter nights in exchange for shelter. “It’s so [...]
Here in Milwaukee, efforts are underway to start a drop in center for homeless and runaway youth. The city has a street outreach program and two shelters specifically for homeless youth but no drop in center specifically for teens without a safe place to live.
We developed a survey to give to youth who are currently [...]
For this week’s news links…
If you remember almost a couple of weeks ago I posted about an amazing new booklet on police brutality against women of color and trans people of color here. To follow up on that check out the Nov/Dec issue of ColorLines. A series of articles detail an investigation into fatal police [...]
On this week’s news links of note…
Lots of quick action in Philadelphia and supporters around the globe didn’t result in bouncing a sitting judge who refused to see how a young women in the sex trade could be raped. But the discussion and public challenge she received is a strong statement.
In the New York Times [...]
For anyone who can make it to Chicago on Friday December 14th - opening night of an art show made entirely by Young Women’s Empowerment Project artists
Our mission as the Young Women’s Empowerment Project is to offer safe, respectful, free-of-judgment spaces for girls and young women impacted by the sex trade and street economies [...]
Check out this amazing new booklet from INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence on police brutality against women of color and trans people of color.
A critical intersection of gender violence and state violence - Learn more about how law enforcement violence is both raced and gendered and how to organize for safety in our communities.
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