SEX WORK: It’s Just a Job

SEX WORK: It’s Just a Job is a documentary inspired by the bestselling book The End of Policing, by Sociology Professor Alex S. Vitale. They both lay out the ways in which police have been used to harm vulnerable communities rather than provide true public safety and the many ways in which they could be replaced by less harmful interventions that center people’s well-being, not violent social control. After the screening, join the filmmakers and community members in discussion:

• Alex Vitale, producer, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and member of the New York State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
• Tami Kashia Gold, producer, director, and writer, with producing credits for Every Mother’s Son; Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity; Out at Work: Lesbian and Gay Men on the Job; Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch; RFK in the Land of Apartheid; and The Last Hunger Strike: Ireland 1981.
• Bianey Garcia-De la O, transgender and gender nonconforming organizer at Make the Road New York.
• Molly B. Simmons, writer, editor, co-founder of Working Girls Press, former literary editor of Petit Mort Magazine, and co-author of Partners in Crime: A Relationship Guidebook for Sex Workers and Their Partners.
  

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