7 Hours and 55 Minutes: Sex, Work, and Migration in Global Contexts

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Diving into global debates, surround gender, sex, migration, and labor, this course considers forms of work that are inflected by race, gender, class, nation, and ability. Our course title, “7 Hours and 55 Minutes,” draws its inspiration from an advocacy game developed by the Empower Foundation, Thailand’s first sex worker rights organization. The game asks participants to consider Thai sex worker understandings an of sex work, within the context of an 8 hour working day. It examines how the global legal and civilian regulation of gendered bodies is met with vital forms of resistance and community organizing. Each week, our seminar will explore one book, article, documentary film, cultural artifact, or the mixed media artistic productions.