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Black Women's Experience in the Sex Trade: Film Showing and Discussion with Melanie Thompson

Eggers Hall, 220

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Melanie Thompson of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women will be showing and discussing "Can Oppression Be Liberation?" The film features Joyclyn, Melanie, and Castanita, three Black lived-experience experts of the sex trade of three generations, as they discuss the impact prostitution had on their lives. This film highlights issues of race, full decriminalization, the prison industrial complex, and prostitution as cyclical generational oppression.


Category

Social Science and Public Policy

Type

Films

Region

Campus

Open to

Faculty

Staff

Students, Graduate and Professional

Students, Undergraduate

Organizer

MAX-Sociology

Contact

Janet Coria
315.443.2347

jmcoria@syr.edu

Accessibility

Contact Janet Coria to request accommodations

Exterior of Maxwell in black and white when there was no Eggers building

We’re Turning 100!


To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”

Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.