Darby Hickey's blog

The remainder of an 8 hour work day

My day ended today playing the role of "mama-san" in Empower's newest intereactive presentation, a game really, about the realities (fun and challenging) of sex work in Thailand, 7:55, or what sex work is when you're not having sex

    Sex! Sex! Sex!

    Libraries are about to burst open... they're overflowing with information about sex and sex workers! AIDS researcher centers drowning in data about us and sex... thesis after thesis on how we do it, why we do it, how to do it safely with us. Seems about sex workers is covered again and again... everyong in the whole world seems to know and have an expert opinion, paper or presentation about us to put forward at any conference whether local, national regional or itnernational.

    ...but maybe you never considered that the part of our work that has filled the academic halls with mountains of data, statistics and tehaories... is a tiny tiny part of out work... just like a small 5 minutes of our working shift!

So began our latest adventure with Empower, one of the strongest most inspiring sex worker groups in the world. It's important for people to understand that sex workers, like all people, have many other things besides how/why we have sex that affect our ability to be safe, in all manners of the term including from HIV.  read more »