So the report “The commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth in Illinois” from the research funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and conducted by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority has been released officially. You can find the whole research report here and the research brief here.
I consulted on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Young Women’s Empowerment Project worked together with the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment to develop a booklet for youth on the issue of Gardasil.
A little while back Gardasil hit the market, newly approved by the FDA, as a vaccine against some types of the human papillomavirus (HPV). A few types of HPV [...]
I just found this link to a July 12th radio interview with Mariko Passion of the Sex Worker’s Outreach Project LA and ‘Ivy’ with the Young Women’s Empowerment Project. ‘Ivy’ is part of the youth staff at YWEP and absolutely amazing. We’ve known each other for years.
The interview highlighted the We, Asian Sex Workers visual [...]
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