Sadie Lune interviews Bacchus, a client of sex workers — about how he became a client, what his feelings towards sex workers are all about, the things he looks for in a sex worker to hire and how he prepares for a date, and what’s changed about his political and personal views on sex work since becoming a client himself.

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(Intro music, “nebula dub,” by _ghost via ccmixter.org)

In 2008, Naomi, Melissa, Robyn, and Sadie began working on RenegadeCast together. This episode is the first from that collaboration, recorded at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Robyn and Melissa talk about what it was like to meet sex worker activists from around the world, what we’ve learned from advocacy groups in Latin America and Asia, and how to make change with sex workers in the United States.

Here’s the links for the groups and videos we talked about:

About the anti-prostitution pledge
Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
APROASE
Sex Workers’ Outreach Project-USA
SWOP-EAST’s “Pledging Action” condom program
Davida, the Brazilian prostitutes’ organization, created a fashion line, called Daspu
Sex workers on the O’Reilly Factor discussing decriminalization of prostitution in San Francisco

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(Intro music, “nebula dub,” by _ghost via ccmixter.org; photo: Sex Work Mexico 2008 via Flickr)

In Episode 2 of RenegadeCast you will here a detailed discussion of the project intentions, learn the results of the survey completed by listeners like you while we explore future directions for RenegadeCast.

Thanks to everyone who helped out with this project: Alix Lutnick, Melissa Gira, “Kate” & all the people who completed the survey. You can view the survey results for yourself at survey monkey or you can download the full report, “RenegadeCast: Evaluating podcast social media as a health promotion tool for Sex Workers with Internet access,” the power point or the poster presentation here.

In this episode of RenegadeCast, “Pandering for our health” we talk with Alix Lutnick of the Sex Worker Environment Assessment Team (SWEAT) Study about social capital for Sex Workers and the impacts of organizing on our health. We then speak with Melissa Gira of WhoreCast and “Kate” a Sex Worker who works in a coop house.

This podcast represents social media as a networking tool for a community isolated by stigma and criminal persecution. You can listen by downloading this file (.m4a), or get the basic mp3 here or from the iTunes Music Store.

RenegadeCast is created by Sex Workers and features other workers and our allies talking about issues that affect our work and our ability to build community. Come find out how we create our own media and critique our own industry.

(This episode was evaluated by listeners. See results here or listen to Episode 2.)