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SUMMARY:Butterfly Kisses
DESCRIPTION:Prostasia Foundation is celebrating the first anniversary of our launch with the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of Butterfly Kisses\, directed by Rafael Kapelinski\, on August 18 from 12:30pm at the New Parkway Theatre in Oakland. \nJake has a dark secret – one that he cannot even share with his closest friends\, and which pushes him deeper and deeper into a sense of isolation. Will anyone close to Jake catch on to his secret obsession before he harms himself or others? \nThis daring and challenging film won the Generation 14plus Crystal Bear for Best Film 2017 at the Berlin International Film Festival (awarded by a youth jury). Stephen Fry called Butterfly Kisses “Unforgettable” and John Malkovich called it “Beautifully produced.”
URL:https://prostasia.org/event/butterfly-kisses/
LOCATION:The New Parkway Theater\, 474 24th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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SUMMARY:Safewords and red lines: consensual kink and child protection
DESCRIPTION:A recent Huffington Post article about children at Pride parades suggesting that “kids can handle the kink” generated thousands of angry replies\, from those convinced that progressive sex-positive communities have gone mad and are grooming children for sexual abuse. Prostasia Foundation has also come under fire recently for its suggestion that the insights from the consensual kink community should be welcomed in the development of child protection programs and policies.  \nSo is kink really incompatible with child protection? We think not\, and in this workshop\, we can lay out the evidence that shows why sex-positive communities such as kinksters\, consensual non-monogamists\, and sex workers are well placed to be allies in the fight against child sexual abuse and exploitation. But we will also pose some challenging case studies\, to illustrate how it’s not always as simple as just keeping an 18+ sign on the door: \n\nA guest attending a play party at a science fiction convention was confronted about breast feeding her infant at the party\, in a room where no play was taking place. Other guests were concerned that this might get them into trouble with the authorities—but the organizers decided in favor of the mother. Was this the right call? \nA bisexual and polyamorous woman in her 40s became involved in a sexual relationship with her 18 year old tenant\, and on two occasions engaged in sexual activity with him in the presence of her 5 year old son. She claims her son had been asleep on one occasion\, and unable to witness the act on the other. Were any lines crossed? \nA young transgender man was sexually abused throughout his childhood while he was in foster care or homeless. Recounting and reenacting his memories of abuse are now an important part of his sex life for him\, and he seeks out sexual partners who receive sexual pleasure from this also. Should he be stigmatized for this? Should his partners?\n\nBuilding upon work done with Internet companies at a series of meetings in May and June 2019\, Prostasia Foundation is co-developing a set of guidelines for how kinky and non-monogamous people can show their responsibility and leadership when it comes to protecting children from sexual harm\, while standing up for their own sexual freedoms as consenting adults. This event will outline our concept for the guidelines\, present some key learnings from sex-positive child sexual abuse prevention experts that can inform their development\, and invite community input and participation.
URL:https://prostasia.org/event/consensual-kink-child-protection/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190523
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SUMMARY:Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Internet Platforms\, Sexual Content\, & Child Protection
DESCRIPTION:Download the brochure\nHow can Internet platforms protect children from abuse\, while preserving space for legitimate sexual expression and discussion online\, and minimizing risk? This full-day workshop will bring together platform and stakeholder representatives in a private expert-led seminar and open discussion about best practices to protect children without infringing the human rights of children or others. \nBy facilitating a dialogue with experts and stakeholders who are normally excluded from the development of child protection policies by Internet platforms\, industry participants will learn how to make these policies more evidence-informed\, and more compliant with human rights standards. The result will be improved accuracy in the moderation of sexual content: removing more material that is harmful to children and has no protected expressive value\, and less material such as lawful\, accurate information on child sexual abuse prevention. \n\n                            \n                            Update: the final outcome of this event was the launch of the #SexContentDialogue Principles at the Internet Governance Forum on November 26.\n                            \n                        \nSpeakers\nCathy BeardsleyPresident and CEO\, Segpay \nAndrew PuddephattChair of the Internet Watch Foundation\, United Kingdom \nKristen DiAngeloCo-Founder and Executive Director of SWOP Sacramento \nGuy Hamilton-SmithSex Offense Litigation and Policy fellow at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law \n\nFacilitator\nJeremy MalcolmLawyer\, human rights activist\, and technology policy expert \n\nAgenda\n9:30—10:00Registration and coffee\n10:00—10:30 \nIntroduction to the problem\, participants\, and process \nA nuanced approach to the restriction of sexual content can protect children better\, improve user experience\, and comply with human rights obligations\, while managing risk\n10:30—12:30Presentations from the assembled experts followed by Q&A \nExperts in child sexual abuse prevention and those who are affected by sexual content bans share insights from research\n12:30—1:30Lunch break\n1:30—3:30 \nPresentation of case studies for small group discussion \nGroup work on examples of sexual content restriction and how these can become better informed and more inclusive\n3:30—4:00 \nLarger group discussion of lessons learned\n4:00—5:00 \nDistillation of key lessons and agreement on next steps \nParticipants will identify key lessons into points for inclusion in future jointly-developed best practice recommendations\n5:00—6:00 \nClose and reception\nQuotes\nPlatforms of all sizes need to be empowered to be made more effective contributors towards child sexual abuse prevention\, through a more nuanced and better-informed approach towards content moderation and censorship. Jeremy Malcolm\, Prostasia Foundation \nThis new sex-positive approach provides another necessary avenue through which we can continue to work together to address\, and ultimately prevent\, child sexual abuse. Gilian Tenbergen\, SUNY Oswego\nOftentimes\, policies that sound sensible in principle wind up perpetuating the very harms that are sought to be extinguished. Input from varied perspectives is essential to diminishing this risk. Guy Hamilton-Smith\, Mitchell Hamline School of Law\nAbout Prostasia Foundation\nProstasia Foundation is the only s.501(c)(3) nonprofit child protection organization that is progressive and sex-positive\, and supports the free and open Internet. We came together in April 2018\, one week after the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) was signed into law. Our diverse team includes digital rights activists\, lawyers\, mental health professionals\, and representatives of sex workers and other stakeholders who are normally excluded from discussions about child protection.
URL:https://prostasia.org/event/dialogue/
LOCATION:Patreon\, 600 Townsend St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:The War on Whores
DESCRIPTION:Is it anyone’s business if consenting adults want to pay or accept money for sex? Sex worker and author Maggie McNeill tells her startling tale about the persecution of sex workers based on the false assumption that most of them are exploited victims of pimps and traffickers. Her movement is challenging these assumptions and the powerful political and cultural forces behind them. \nThis will be the Bay Area premiere of The War on Whores\, and it will be followed by a Q&A with Maggie McNeill and other local sex worker representatives\, moderated by Jeremy Malcolm from Prostasia Foundation. \nWatch the trailer
URL:https://prostasia.org/event/the-war-on-whores/
LOCATION:The New Parkway Theater\, 474 24th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film screening
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SUMMARY:Launch of Prostasia Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the launch of a child protection organization like no other.\nFollowing our successful crowdfunding\, Prostasia Foundation will be officially launched at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco on August 15 commencing from 8pm\, with Dr Carol Queen as Master of Ceremonies\, and DJ Fact 50 providing the soundtrack. \nInformation\nProstasia Foundation was incorporated one week after FOSTA/SESTA was signed into law. The law was sold to the public as a solution to child sex trafficking\, but has actually made sex trafficking crimes harder to prosecute\, while causing real harm to adult sex workers\, and to the free and open Internet. This is indicative of a larger problem with the ineffective way that our society deals with the problem of child sexual abuse (CSA). \nProstasia Foundation is dedicated to taking a more evidence-based\, prevention-focused approach to protecting children\, by: \n\nhelping to fund sound scientific research on CSA prevention.\nengaging with diverse stakeholders. whose voices are not normally heard.\naddressing the human rights impacts of child protection laws and policies.\ncommunicating the results of our research and engagement to policymakers\, platforms\, and the public.\n\nThis uniquely balanced\, rights-respecting and fact-based approach to CSA prevention allows us not only to protect children from abuse\, but also to reduce the separate harms caused to children and others by our society’s predominantly reactive child protection agenda. \nAgenda\nAlong with plenty of time for networking over drinks\, the event will include presentations from: \n\nJeremy Malcolm (Prostasia Foundation) — How Prostasia Foundation came to be formed\, and why it is unlike any other child protection organization.\nDavid Green (Electronic Frontier Foundation) — An update on the Woodhull Freedom Foundation’s lawsuit to have FOSTA declared unconstitutional.\nMeagan Ingerman (Prostasia Foundation) — A childcare worker and kinkster tells us what we can learn about child protection from the consensual kink community.\nIan O’Brien (Free Speech Coalition) — The common ambitions of the sex industry and child protection advocates\, from a public health perspective.\n\nRefreshments will be served\, and DJ Fact 50 will be spinning beats. Entry is by donation (or free for those who have already donated!). RSVP or pick up your ticket below. \nBiographies\nCarol Queen has a Ph.D. in sexology and is the author or editor of a dozen books about sex\, including Exhibitionism for the Shy\, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture\, and PoMoSexuals (edited with Lawrence Schimel). She is the co-founder and executive director of The Center for Sex & Culture (www.sexandculture.org)\, is Staff Sexologist at Good Vibrations (www.goodvibes.com)\, and frequently speaks at colleges and universities about sexuality. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her at www.carolqueen.com. \n  \n\nJeremy Malcolm\, PhD is a lawyer\, human rights activist\, and father of two boys. Prior to his work at Prostasia he held the position of Senior Global Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, defending digital privacy\, free speech\, and innovation. Before that he worked for Consumers International coordinating its global program Consumers in the Digital Age. He also serves on the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum. \n  \n\nMeagan Ingerman is a childcare and child development specialist with over ten years as a provider\, tutor\, and consultant. She has engaged in multiple forms of sex work and has ties to the organized kink community. Within the kink community she has been an event organizer\, presenter\, and volunteer. She has presented on subjects such as safety in kink\, kink/BDSM for beginners\, and has helped to facilitate discussions about consent and consent violations. \n  \n\nDavid Greene\, Senior Staff Attorney and Civil Liberties Director\, has significant experience litigating First Amendment issues in state and federal trial and appellate courts and is one of the country’s leading advocates for and commentators on freedom of expression in the arts. David was a founding member\, with David Sobel and Shari Steele\, of the Internet Free Expression Alliance\, and currently serves on the Northern California Society for Professional Journalists Freedom of Information Committee\, the steering committee of the Free Expression Network\, the governing committee of the ABA Forum on Communications Law\, and on advisory boards for several arts and free speech organizations across the country. \n  \n\nIan O’Brien is Senior Director of Programs and Operations at the Free Speech Coalition. Ian works with regulators of both the pleasure products and adult film industries\, to compile\, analyze and provide accurate\, evidence-based research on issues ranging from zoning and lubricants to workplace safety and public health. O’Brien attended graduate school at Columbia University’s prestigious Mailman School of Public Health.
URL:https://prostasia.org/event/official-launch/
LOCATION:Center for Sex and Culture\, 1349 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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