Registration is now open for the Desiree Alliance 2010 Conference! We are so excited! Yes, we'll be there. No, we don't plane on presenting. We want to savour the full week. (Though we'll no doubt be doing some on-site benefit and we are already doing behind-the-scenes planning work.)
We're looking to put together an amazing project for everybody who takes part, so if you think you might want to represent on a range of topics, please submit a proposal! We have 5 different tracks: Academia, Activism/Leadership, Business Development, Arts/Media, Harm Reduction.
We toured the grounds of the conference shortly before we left the States and it's great for everyone. The room rate is great!. It's going to be very budget-friendly this year too. (Yes, there's a pool. It's Vegas in July. Bring sunscreen too.)
Yes, you have to register in advance. Yes, we are screening. This has to be a safe space so the general public just can't wander in. That being said, you don't have to be a sex worker to attend. Allies and supporters are always welcome. And no, you don't have to live in the US to be welcome either.
If you're not interested in attending but still want to help out, you can always volunteer your time (behind the scenes), services (like printing programs) or just a plain old financial support always helps. DA always offers scholarships ever year so sex workers who are on tight budgets can attend and have their expenses covered. The more money we can raise, the more scholarships can be awarded.
It's always about networking, learning, making new friends and just seeing friends you haven't seen in a year! It's something sex workers in the US rarely get. It's going to be so great this year!

One of the man's relatives Roman Dunka, 34, then rang his sister Abzeta Dunkova, 26, who lived in Sheffield. Mother-of-four Dunkova visited to Slovakia to capture the girl.
The teenager said: "She handle with me well at first and said I would have a better life than here in Slovakia."
But after a two-day train and ferry trip the girl was taken by Dunkova to her Sheffield home and have to work as a call girl with Dunka's 19-year-old daughter and Zaneta Horvathova, 21.
While the other two girls kept their income, the 15-year-old was forced to give away over all the money she gained for doing "turns" of?20 or?30 a time.
Dunkova's two brothers, Roman Dunka and Simon Kandrac, both came in Sheffield after the girl was trafficked into the country.
Theteenager asserted Roman Dunka beat her and both he and Dunkova's husband Marcel Dunka would not admit her leave the house.
On her sixth night in Sheffield an Iraqi punter befriended her. She said: "He didn't want sex. He just wanted to talk to me. I told him I was from Slovakia and said 'help me.'"
Horvathova tried to drag the girl away but the punter intervened and rang the police. The five Slovakians were later arrested.
Dunkova, her husband Marcel Dunka and her brother Roman Dunka all deny two offences of trafficking the girl into the UK for sexual exploitation and one of false imprisonment.
Dunkova, the Dunkas and Horvathova deny causing the girl to become a prostitute and controlling a child prostitute.
Hovathova's husband Simon Kandrac, 19, meanwhile, is facing two counts of rape and Marcel Dunka is accused of causing a child to engage in sexual activity. All the defendants lived in Page Hall Road, Grimesthorpe.

A teenage girl broke down in eye-drop yesterday as she said how she was trafficked into the country, raped and compeled to work as a Sheffield prostitute.
Being questioned over a live video link, she said she was bullied to sue, spoke little English and had nobody to turn to for help.
The 16-year-old previously told the court how she ran away from a children's home in Slovakia and was involved to Britain "for a better life."
Straight on arrival she was forced to work as a?300-a-night prostitute, before a punter took pity on her and rang the constabulary.
The girl, in a video interview with police through an interpreter, told how she was suppressed captive, extipated and impended with being assassinated if she ebdeavored to escape.
She could not remember how many men she had sex with but was enforced to hand over all her earnings to her Slovakian captors.
The dark-haired girl told a court of justice at Sheffield Crown Court: "If I ebdeavored to run away they said they would find me and murder me.
"I was told I had to work really hard every day and nothing would happen to me."
Three siblings and two of their partners are before the courts after the girl, who was then 15, was allegedly brought into the UK on a false passport and set to work as a child prostitute.
The girl told how in May this year, a fortnight after the death of her mother, she ran away from a children's home and caught a train to Trnava, where she was befriended at the station by a man.
She said: "I told him I had run away and he said he would help me so I went to his house.
"At first he was nice to me then became aggressive and punched me in the face. I was tired and went to bed but during the night he raped me."
The 15-year-old said she was locked in the room and then sold for sex.

Suellen did not work but was wired money from her family in Brazil, the flatmate told.
She had a sweetheart until recently, he said.
Suellen appeared happy and normal when the flatmate last saw her about 11.30pm on Wednesday, November 18, he said.
He believed she'd gone to reggae party at Manly's The Steyne Hotel on the Thursday to catch up with her Brazilian friends, as she did almost every week.
He said he and Suellen's best friend were rocked to read yesterday's news calling her a tootsie.
"We both found the escort thing extremely... It's out of the blue," the flatmate said. (more...)

Police detained an internet-based prostitution racket operating in the capital of Nepal, on Monday evening.
Amit Gautam, one of two Kathmandu-based termsof the racket who have been running the business through an internet portal, for 4 months, was detained at Naxal by a team from the Metropolitan Police Range Kathmandu. The racket, controlled by a leader based in New Delhi, India, is said to have been supplying Nepali girls chieflyto Indian nationals visiting here.
A police officer leading the crackdowntold that Amit, 21, a resident of Samakhusi, had been working as the local contact for the racket and is identified as? John? In the homepage of the website. Police withdreawed from him a mobile phone, the same refered toin the home page referring to contact person? John?.
The police team was searching for Ameet? S business partner, a woman named Sangeeta Shrestha, a resident of Tahachal, as this news was being prepared and they believe she would be nabbedanytime during the night.
Comlied to the homepage of the website, the racket is describedas a?? Guide to sheen Nepali women and Asian escorts offering their unbetteredservices at our Nepal Sex Guide escort agency."
"We currently have 40 escort girls who are suggestingassociation to businessmen and discerning gentlemen at five star hotels or exclusive location. Our set of thrilling beauties includes college girls, aspiring and established models, young professionals and even some from Nepal Film Industry," goes part of the text under the header? About us?.
The website asks to drop a note about oneself by phone or email and states that after receiving a complete email, the aspiring client will be given a phone number for further personal contact.
The racket seems to have charged clients differently under three categories--College Students (Rs 25,000), Models (Rs 50,000) and Celebrities (Rs 100,000 onwards).
Besides services in Nepal, according to the website, the racket is also operating in seven major Indian cities and girls are supplied at various rates on hourly basis.
According to police, things will be clearer with the arrest of the Nepali woman who is said to be partnering with Amit in Kathmandu.

Source: New York Escort News

A Refined vice girl is to quit her 3000-a-week income aft being revealed as the first sex worker to ply her trade on Twitter.
Late backstage schoolgirl Rebekka Couser said yesterday she had brought dishonor on her upper ten association - and fears they might turn their backs on her.
She said: "I have broken my parents' hearts and I just expectancy they can forgive me.
"I am so sorry for the things I have done and I want to make mendes."
Rebekka, 21, from Dundee, used the name Lottie to puff for business on the social networking site Twitter, where users access short messages called tweets from computers and phones.
She was raking in much more 3000 dollars per week selling her body to around five punters a day from her residence and in other locations around the city.
But aft being evulgated by the Record yesterday, Rebekka, who says she has been working as a smutch girl for just six months, has decided to quit.
She confessed to comely addicted to the money and admitted she was playing "a very dangerous game".
She said: "I have been immensely naif and stupid. I have hurt my family more words can say and I will deplore it for the rest of my life.
"I just hope my parents can find it in their hearts to forgive me. I am very discredited of what I have done and I am accomplishment to quit.
"I realise I have put my life at risk by having sex with strangers for money. I know now that it was very condemnable.
"When I saw the story in the Record, I was dismayed. I thought, 'Is that really me. Is that what I have been?' "If I could turn the clock rearmost, I would but it is also actualrepresenting that today. The damage has been already done and everyone knows now what I did.
"All I can do now is hope that my parents don't abandonme because then I will have no one and I couldn't match that."
Rebekka said she had tried to call her mother but got no answer.
She went on: "I made a fault and took the condemnable turn. Everyone makes mistakes in life, that is how we learn. (more...)