New video by Scarlot Harlot and Courtney Trouble.
By CJ • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: BlogInternational Sex Worker Rights Day, March 3rd
Launches Sex Worker Pride Anthem!!
Sex Worker Rights Music Video by
Scarlot Harlot and Courtney Trouble: The Burnout
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/Trouble
The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival premieres this sex worker anthem, Courtney Trouble’s “The Burnout,” a music video by Scarlot Harlot and Courtney Trouble in English, Chinese and Thai.
The makers wish to thank and acknowledge the sex worker activists around the world for their work and inspiration. Also visit Sex Workers Present (http://sexworkerspresent.blip.tv/) from APNSW, to view many sex worker videos including “Taking The Pledge” from the Network of Sex Work Projects.
In this video, a ‘day in Courtney’s life’ parallels her journey from phone sex to sexual representation/pornography as well as her political journey, interwoven with sex worker demonstrations, clips and photos from organizations listed here.
This music video reflects a personal and local story, and a political story that reaches out to individuals and organizations which resist discrimination and work towards social justice and human rights for sex workers. Many find a common voice in Courtney Trouble’s frustration, pride and defiance.
“How soon I got over, waiting alone at home for the telephone. Why do you care…you can’t see me…don’t wanna know me at all but I know you wanna get off.”
Trouble’s frustration evolves into a recognition of her mission to ’seize the means of production.’
“It’s just like anything else, it’s just a job, but we’ve got the guts to profit off our own skin. They won’t acknowledge us until we own enough to control it. They won’t respect us until we give them no other choice.”
Courtney Trouble has also been an artist, singer, designer, and photographer for many years. Her work can be viewed at www.courtneytrouble.com.
Filmmaker Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot has been a sex worker and activist since the late seventies. A poet and performance artist, she coined the term “sex worker” in 1979. She was recently awarded a Creative Work Fund Award to compile her sex worker documentaries as part of the library at the Center for Sex and Culture (www.sexandculture.org). “Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot” was published by Last Gasp. For more info, visit her websites at www.bayswan.org/penet.html and www.unrepentantwhore.com
Sex Worker Outreach Project-USA is sponsoring celebrations across the U.S. for March 3rd. Visit www.swopusa.org/March3 for information about events celebrating March 3rd.
Nice!
Awesome!!!
I am very impressed
Again, Scarlot Harlot and Carol Leigh have blown me away. I know this wasn’t all her, but I am so excited to see how professional and diverse she has become in spreading her activism.
I find it rather inspiring!