Strength, Resilience, and Healthcare

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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Strength, Resilience, and Healthcare (May 2019)

With so many people alienated from traditional systems of care, what do liberated forms of healthcare look like? How is resilience developed in the face of marginalisation and criminalisation? Where do communities draw strength from when it comes to emphasising not only care but survival? Exploring radical visions of health, our panellists come from a range of backgrounds in trans health, public health, mental health, and HIV activism.

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Speakers: Micha Frazer-Carroll, Effie (SWARM), Bakita Kasadha (Global Network of Young People Living with HIV), Pippa Grenfell (LSTHM), Ember (Action for Trans Health), Dana (Action for Trans Health)

Strength, Resilience, and Healthcare is the 17th 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): racism hiv mental health transphobia trans health violence community care