Events

Event Information:

• Tue

  08

  Jul

  2014

  The End of the American Red Light District

  12:00Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

  The history of the American red light district is quite brief – from railroad signal lights to hotel bathroom selfies – and clouded in myth. Soon it may be lost. In this talk, journalist Melissa Gira Grant (author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work) will reconsider how communication technologies shape sex-for-sale, proposing that sex work has merged with the network. We'll surveil the police, missionaries, media, and politicians who created and command this space, and discuss what we can learn from how sex workers have remained a step ahead. Free and open to the public. RSVP.