Moral High Ground

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You're standing on PJ's version of "Moral High Ground."
Video and creative projects by PJ Starr. Works in progress, retrospective, eye-spy with my little eye.

PJ Starr is a sex worker rights activist and friend of transgenders everywhere.

Nearly done: SWDHR II

Golly it’s taken a long time to make this video. All that slicing and dicing of video, layering and worrying. I’m soliciting feedback from the people in the video and then finalizing. Hooray.

Oct
5th

Sun

BBQing for Rights (and Harm Reduction)

This event was stylish and delicious. Snacking New Yorkers streamed into the Excelsior Bar in Park Slope to support harm reduction efforts with sex workers. Hundreds of dollars raised. Proceeds will go to support sex worker attendance at the 7th Annual National Harm Reduction Conference as well as Citiwide’s Harm Reduction’s Community Education and STREET outreach programs.

I snapped this photo of SWANKers and SWOPers in front of the venue.

Sep
27th

Sat

Scarlot is always ahead of me...

I just found out that Scarlot Harlot has a video blog and, of course, it’s way cooler than mine.

Sep
26th

Fri

Prop K activist wins an award!

Yes on Prop K, Sadie Lune, Artist and Sex Worker wins 1st place at
the Museum of Modern Art! (Watch it in High Quality on You Tube Now!)

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=4G_7CzddUR4

Sadie Lune presents this performance piece “I WANT YOU,” which won
1st place at the Museum of Modern Art on September 11, 2008.

San Francisco artist, Tony Labat invited San Franciscans to
participate in this live art event based on the iconic “I Want You”
poster. Labat offered one minute at the museum to “seize the voice
of authority, to make demands of the public, and to be the
finger-pointing Uncle Sam.”

Contest winners will be plastered over the city in on posters during
election week.

Sadie says, I Want You to Vote Yes on Prop K, the San Francisco
ballot initiative for the decriminalization of sex workers in San
Francisco.

Sep
22nd

Mon

Sex worker video in action, SWOP-Chicago role plays what will happen to you when you are arrested for prostitution.

Sep
10th

Wed

En el Fuego

I went to see a movie about transgender sex workers in Peru and it gave me a lot to think about in regards to the Making of Gigi. The film night was hosted by Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Primer Movimiento Peruano, and TransEmpowerment NYC. $pread came along and tabled, it was a fantastic spanish filled night.

Aug
8th

Fri

Here are some of the photos I took when at the International AIDS Conference this last week. Rally against Homophobia and we made it for sex workers’ rights.

Jun
30th

Mon

Okay, this is the next section… work in progress on Sex Workers Do Harm Reduction II. Naomi, Kirby and Rachel pontificate on “what is the harm in sex work?”

Jun
21st

Sat

from the developing film Sex Workers Do Harm Reduction II. This segment focuses on Pye Jakobson who speaks eloquently about the failings of the “Swedish model” and why services for sex workers are limited in Sweden.

Jun
17th

Tue

Work in progress, the opening sequence of Sex Workers Do Harm Reduction II filmed in Barcelona, May 2008.

Jun
11th

Wed

Footage from rally called by sex worker rights activists attending the UN high level meetings on HIV/AIDS. Video by PJ Starr, edited by PJ Starr. Background material about the Cambodian law from Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women.

Mar
7th

Fri

Moral High Ground in DC mini-fest II

if you’re looking for some great ways to celebrate international
working women’s day …

MINI FILM FEST
6pm Sat March 8
$4-7 give what you can donation
La Casa 3166 Mt Pleasant St NW DC
Featuring shorts and mini films and roughly edited videos all about
women, work, gender, identity, trans and more including:
“the waiting room” and a selection from “the life of gigi” by pj starr (featuring local dc divas!)
“1200 botones” by gomex
oral history and video bits pulling together gender, work, identity
and invisible chica-hood… courtesy of the rat
and so much more!!!

all donations split to support:
1. SMYAL’s, Ladies Lounge: a support and life skills program for DC
area young lesbian, bisexual and questioning women ages 13-18. For
more info visit: www.smyal.org

2. International Sex Worker Rights Caucus participation at the
International Harm Reduction Conference in Barcelona, Spain. DC representatives will be presenting at the conference on local research into how policing of commercial sex affects the people targeted. www.differentavenues.org