Founded by New Orleans artists and activists, Patois: the New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival, is dedicated to nurturing the New Orleans’ human rights community, supporting the work of local organizers and organizations involved in these struggles, and providing a forum for artistic expression of local and international issues.
On March 21st, In Our Own Image: Sex Worker Made Media and the Story of $pread Magazine, was featured at the Patois Film Festival. As the co-director of the film, I spoke on a panel following the film on sex worker and sexual rights.
MADRE understands that sexual rights—including the right to exercise and express sexuality freely and safely; be protected from sexual violence and discrimination; be in charge of decisions about one’s own body; have access to information and services necessary for sexual health; and experience sexual pleasure—are human rights. Sexuality is essential to identity, social and personal interaction, and physical and mental health. And sexual rights are inextricably connected to economic, social and political rights: when one is violated, the others are affected.
To watch the 19 minute documentary, In Our Own Image: Sex Worker Made Media and the Story of $pread Magazine, click here: http://mandonaproductions.org/ourfilms/spreadmagazine/
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