POWERSHIFT — A SEAT AT THE DINNER TABLE NATALIA BONILLA & REBECCA IRBY with guest CEYENNE DOROSHOW | 29 April 2021 @ 6P EST

Ceyenne Doroshow is the founder and executive director of G.L.I.T.S., where she works to provide holistic care to LGBTQ sex workers while serving on the following boards: SWOP-USA, Caribbean Equality Project, SOAR Institute, and NYTAG.

As an international public speaker, her past presentations have included The Desiree Alliance, Creating Change, SisterSong, Harm Reduction Coalition, and the International AIDS Conferences. She was a featured emcee for Toronto PRIDE and MOMA/PS1’s Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance, lifting her voice as a trans woman of color.

Known for her skills in the kitchen, Ceyenne co-authored the Caribbean cookbook Cooking in Heels, while incarcerated on prostitution charges. She is currently working on her second book, titled Falling Into the Fire.

Stick around from 7 to 7:30 for dessert where we’ll be joined by G.L.I.T.S.!

Gays and Lesbians Living In a Transgender Society — We approach the health and rights crises faced by transgender sex workers holistically using harm reduction, human rights principles, economic and social justice, along with a commitment to empowerment and pride in finding solutions from our own community. The first issue we address is that of immediate need/crisis support for transgender sex workers, including community members from the NYC area, across the US, and globally through supporting asylum seekers from our priority communities. The next issue we address is health care and health resilience for transgender sex workers. We need to address this issue because our community is hyper-marginalized and has a profound need for safe sex supplies and free/low-cost health to address both trans-specific and holistic needs. We currently work on housing since so many in our G.L.I.T.S. community are without stable housing, deepening the cycle of disenfranchisement. G.L.I.T.S. also advocates and educates to ensure the health, wellness, and inclusion of transgender people in our society and to address the stigmatization and criminalization of trans people because of anti-prostitution/anti-sex work laws.