The Stories of Muslim Transgender/Cisgender Woman Sex Workers
During the ninth month of Islamic calendar which is Ramadan, Muslims worldwide are fasting for a period of 29-30 days. Muslims are to refrain from consuming food and drink, smoking and engaging sexual activities etc from dawn till sunset. And refraining from behaving indecently and not to say ill or vulgar. This annual obligatory ritual […]
Increasing Access to Justice for Sex Workers: 2015 Report
In 2014, Project X started an Abuser Alert Program, a scheme that enables sex workers to firstly report crimes against them to us, and secondly to alert them to potential abusers as reported by others. This program was established because through the years that Project X has been on the ground, we realised that many […]
LGBTQ Policy Journal
At the turn of the year, Project X was contacted by the Harvard Kennedy School to contribute an article for the prestigious institution’s journal. While daunting, we sought to shed light on a particularly distressing issue which was scarcely ever discussed – forced sterilisation (programs or government policies which attempt to force people to undergo […]
On Rights, Wrongs, and the In-Betweens
As part of a project on diversity and inclusivity, a group of friends and I decided to interview Project X to find out more about the lives of sex workers in Singapore. In that short hour-long conversation with the staff of Project X, I found myself challenged in many ways. I went into this interview […]
The Ally Interviews – Terry Xu
You saw them in our video, now find out why they’re allies of the cause! ________________________________________ Why are sex workers’ rights important to you? Because they are decent human beings earning their livelihood through their body and hard work. I see them as workers who fill up a need of society just like the seemingly insignificant […]
The Ally Interviews – Kelly Kimberly
You saw them in our video, now find out why they’re allies of the cause! ________________________________________ Why are sex workers’ rights important to you? I think everyone’s rights are important and nobody should have their rights taken away from them regardless of what they do. Sex workers just wanna do their job, I don’t think they […]
A Jihad For Love; film, faith, and the freedom to love.
A Jihad For Love; film, faith, and the freedom to love. By Sherry A Jihad for Love is a very emotional documentary about homosexuals and faith in Islam. Everyone with a different background, ethnicity, or religion would enjoy the movie, as it shows how gay and lesbian individuals/partners live in Islamic countries (such as Saudi […]
The Ally Interviews – Becca D’Bus
You saw them in our video, now find out why they’re allies of the cause! ________________________________________ Why are sex workers’ rights important to you? As a drag queen, I am a performer. I am reminded of something a theatre teacher said in class one day – there is a reason that in many large cities, […]
Student Activism: an interview with student activist Brenda Tan
1. Why sex workers’ rights? Okay, a bit of a backstory here: I stay on campus in NUS, at College of Alice and Peter Tan. The college offers a seminar called “Hidden Communities”, where we learn about various ‘hidden communities’ in Singapore that don’t gain much public attention but whose members require special consideration from […]
“They protect all but us”
It was a Saturday morning in Geylang. Sheryl, a 27 year old Singaporean transgender sex worker was working over time because business was bad. But she didn’t think that it was going to be bad enough for her life to be threatened. She managed to take a client after fair bit of bargaining from his […]