CSW68 Creative Space: Movie Night - Crossings

The Our Voices Our Futures (OVOF) consortium is hosting co-created community space to foster creative ways to engage with the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and demonstrate the relevance of art & activism to address the key issues discussed at the CSW.

 

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'Crossings' is a documentary produced by sex workers about the effects of criminalisation on migrant sex workers in Europe and the powerful ways of their resistance. The film tells the untold stories of five people from five European countries (Serbia, Macedonia, France, Spain, and Norway) who come from very diverse backgrounds but have something in common - all of them are migrants who sell sex.

 

By sharing their experiences as women, men, migrants, LGBT people, single mothers, Muslims, Roma and sex workers, they challenge the sensationalist portrayal of all sex workers as "prostituted women” and "trafficking victims”. The documentary highlights common myths around sex work and preconceptions about sex workers. It does so by reflecting on the current trends sex workers - and other marginalised groups - face in Europe: increasing hostility to migrants and refugees, growing populism, cuts and austerity, and backlash against women’s and LGBT rights. The movie offers a glimpse into how governments approach prostitution and migration: the lives of the five characters are harshly impacted by police control, detention, deportation, and imprisonment.

The film will be followed by a discussion led by Sabrina Sanchez, Coordinator of the European Sex Worker Alliance and Vera Rodríguez, Red Umbrella Fund.

This event is co-organised by the consortiums Our Voices, Our Futures (OVOF) and Count Me in! (CMI!), Red Umbrella Fund, together with the European Sex Workers Alliance (ESWA).