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http://handsonpro.wordpress.com/Sex Worker Open University, in collaboration with XTalk, are proud to invite you to a brand new initiative:
Hands On Pro, Professional Development for Sex Workers.
Hands On will be a series of weekly workshops, over two months, aimed at sex workers wanting to learn or develop relevant skills. Our first two classes will be Swedish Massage facilitated by David and I.T skills with Ms Tytania starting on the the 7th of June until the 26th of July. We will also offer one-off Self Defence and Martial Training with a range of expert instructors. The classes are limited to 12 people so please email
contact.swou@gmail.com to book a space (or ask us any question!). Hands On is open to sex workers of all genders, races and abilities. We wish to make the class a safe and confidential space where sex workers can learn new skills and feel less isolated.
The workshops will start on Thursday 7 of June and end on Thursday 26 of July. They will run every Thursday between those dates, in the following order. For confidentiality and safety reason, the address of the venue in Central London will only be sent to you once you have booked your place through
contact.swou@gmail.com 11-1 Massage with DavydThis is an all-level friendly, informal but structured massage workshop.
Everyone is welcome from complete beginners to advanced masseuses. The
focus will be more on having an interactive, skill-share workshop than a
teacher/ students structure.
We will be doing mostly Swedish massage which is oil massage applied
directly on the skin. It’s a fascinating way to cultivate your touch and
get to meet another body in a different way. Hopefully we’ll have time to
do a bit of acupressure and other techniques too. The objective of this
workshop is for everyone to gain some basic massage techniques and a
little anatomy knowledge that will hopefully prove useful to people in
their work as a sex worker.
Massage is a good skill to have in this job. It can make you look just a
little bit more special to a client and is very useful to relax a nervous
client and put him at ease.
2-3.30 IT Skills with Ms TytaniaDesign your own free website using WordPress.
In this beginner’s workshop, Ms Tytania will teach you how to design a basic, but functional and stylish website using WordPress. You don’t need to be IT savvy to use WordPress. You have the last word on how you want to sell your work and how you present yourself to your clients.
A website designed and run by yourself is the first step towards independence as a sex worker. It gives you the agency to decide who you are, how you want to present yourself, and where you want to advertise.
It’s a good way to network with other sex workers and it’s also a great tool for self-expression, so if you are sick of being perceived as a service-providing piece of meat – design and update your own website! It’s your shop window to the world and to your clients.
We will also aim to create a skill share environment in which we can teach each others how to navigate different websites such as Adultwork and Gaydar, as well as some marketing basics, to help each other be more internet savvy.
Self defence and Martial Training.
More info coming soon for Fast Defence system training!
http://www.fastdefence.com/ For more information on the Hands On Pro project go to:
http://handsonpro.wordpress.com/ The X-talk project and Sex Worker Open University are two London based sex workers cooperatives.
The x:talk project is a space to organise and empower workers in the sex industry and to encourage critical interventions around the issues of MIGRATION, GENDER and LABOUR. We provide free English classes for migrant sex workers.
Contact us at
xtalk.classes@googlemail.comVisit our webpage:
http://www.xtalkproject.net/ The Sex Worker Open University is also a worker’s cooperative led by sex workers. We have organised many skill sharing workshops, activist and academic panels as well as cultural events such as London’s first ever Sex Worker Film Festival and several art exhibitions! We are currently running Public Education workshop on Stigma and Sex Work.
Contact us at
contact.swou@gmail.comVisit our webpage:
http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/ Please feel free to contact us about any questions you might have, and of course, if you wish to participate! Hoping to see you soon,
The Hands On Pro Team
