Upcoming Webinar
Populations at the Intersection of Sex Work and Human Trafficking
Register now for the Populations at the Intersection of Sex Work and Human Trafficking webinar presented by Freedom Network Training Institute.
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM ET
Registration Cost: $50
This 1.5-hour webinar will give an overview of populations at the intersection of sex work and human trafficking. This webinar will specifically focus on LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC people in the sex trades. Attendees will learn about the importance of prioritizing equity while working with people in the sex trades.
* Participants may submit questions to presenters before the webinar through the registration form.
PRESENTERS
Elena Shih
Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Elena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. She is the author of Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Freedom (University of California Press 2023), and co-editor of White Supremacy, Racism, and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking (Routledge 2022). For two decades, Shih has worked in China, Thailand, Myanmar, and throughout the US, including as a researcher for the United Nations Inter-Agency Project to Combat Trafficking China Office. She serves on the editorial boards of the Anti-Trafficking Review and OpenDemocracy's Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editorial platform.
Esther K
Lead Organizer
Red Canary Song
Esther K. is a founding member and Lead Organizer with Red Canary Song, a grassroots collective of Asian and migrant sex workers and allies basebuilding with massage workers in New York. She organized the launch and ongoing efforts on the Massage License Decriminalization Act and represents RCS in the broader full decrim coalition backing the Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act (S849). Outside of RCS, she consulted for the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center and does public education on the intersection between sex worker rights and anti-trafficking. She has spoken at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University, among others, and you can find her published in OpenDemocracy and The Nation.