Dignity, Justice, and Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of Sex Workers' Labor and Human Rights Organizing
Event Description
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 4130 Posvar Hall:
"Dignity, Justice, and Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of Sex Workers' Labor and Human Rights Organizing”
Panelists Olivia Snow, Leah LaGrone, and Amalia L. Cabezas will discuss sex workers’ historical and contemporary struggles for labor and human rights. Bridging academic and activist perspectives, this panel will invite conversations about the past, present, and future of sex workers’ rights in the United States, Latin America, and beyond. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the panel will be included in the Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference.
Olivia Snow is a writer, professor, and dominatrix. She's currently a research fellow at UCLA's Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, where she studies sex work, technology, and policy.
Dr. Leah LaGrone is an assistant professor of history and public history director at Weber State University. She graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, with a PhD in history focused on borderlands, labor, and gender studies in early 20th century. Her research examines state legislation and the discourse on minimum wages for women, specifically the connections of sex work with low wages. Her current book project, “A Woman’s Worth: How Race and Respectability Politics Influenced Minimum Wage Policies,” demonstrates that the politics around race and the minimum wage for women drove conversations among labor, politicians, and progressive reformers about the future of white supremacy in Texas.
Amalia L. Cabezas is an Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Cabezas is the recipient of the European Commission's GEMMA Erasmus Mundus Third Country Scholar award as a visiting professor at the University of Hull, England. A UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (UCLA) recipient and a UC Humanities Research Institute fellow her publications include Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic and two co-edited books: Una ventana a Cuba y los estudios cubanos and The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies: Repression, and Women's Poverty.