Artists Talk Bodies, Visibility, and Violence

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A person weaering a bikini top and sunglasses stare into the camera. They are holding a stuffed green crocodile across their lap as they kneel on a bed.

'Harvey and Albert' from Objects of Desire

In May 2019, SWARM hosted a three day festival to celebrate ten years of organising. This included panel discussions across a wide range of topics that impact on sex workers, and which connect and intersect with sex worker rights organising as well as broader struggles for justice. The conversations and discussions from that festival lay the groundwork for the Decriminalised Futures project.

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Artists Talk Bodies, Visibility, and Violence (May 2019)

A roundtable panel discussion on the traps of visibility, the risks of violence, and making art while experiencing the world as a marginalised body.

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Speakers: Bridget Minamore, Sugar (Objects of Desire), Rori (Objects of Desire), Otter Lieffe, Jon Bellabono (Decolonise Fest)

Credits: composition by Anita Castelino and Sherry Ostapovitch, mix by Sherry Ostapovitch, edit by Tamara Schreiber and Radio Ava, recording by Hollis Robin.

Artists Talk Bodies, Visibility, and Violence is the 9th panel discussion of the SWARM 2019 Festival of Resistance.

The topics included:

  • Imagining Feminist Futures

  • Radical Transfeminist Activism

  • Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe: When Survival Is Made Criminal

  • Sex Work and Migration in Europe

  • The Impact of Austerity

  • Sex Workers of Colour Roundtable

  • (Resisting) Systems of Violence

  • Sex Workers on the Nordic Model

  • Artists Talk Bodies, Visibility, and Violence

  • Radical Histories: Exploring the Archives

  • Aesthetics vs Ethics: Expanding Definitions of Feminist Porn

  • How Do Disability and Sex Work Intersect in the UK Today

  • The Future of Work

  • Technology, Surveillance and the State: How We Resist

  • Examining Anti-trafficking Measures: Academic Perspectives

  • Researching Sex Work

  • Strength, Resilience, and Healthcare

  • A Decriminalised Future

Year: 2019
Type: panel discussion
Series: swarm festival of resistance
Subject(s): accountability gender based violence lgbtq+ organising racism transfeminism art