Audacia Ray
Audacia Ray is a media maker and activist who is passionate about sexual rights. Presently, Audacia is the Program Officer for Online Communications and Campaigns at the International Women’s Health Coalition, an adjunct professor of Human Sexuality at Rutgers University, and the co-host of the monthly reading series Sex Worker Literati in New York.
Dacia is the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration. Audacia is a former sex worker who was an executive editor at $pread magazine for three years and is a co-founder of advocacy organization Sex Work Awareness, for which she edits the public education blog Sex Work 101 and provides media training workshops for sex workers. Dacia is also the award-winning director and producer of the porn feature The Bi Apple as well as the producer and star of the comedic film short Dacia’s Love Machine.She has blogged at WakingVixen.com since 2004 and has also edited a blog for the Village Voice and written for Fleshbot.
She has a BA from Eugene Lang College at the New School and a MA from Columbia University. She is based in New York.
Speak Out Against Endemic Violence Against Women Throughout Africa
reader diary by Audacia Ray, International Women's Health Coalition
September 23, 2010 - 11:07am (Print)
Last year the African Union declared this decade, 2010-2020 as the African Women’s Decade. Between July 30th and August 4th nearly 500 women were raped in and around the village of Luvungi in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a campaign of ongoing terror waged by armed groups who use rape as a weapon of war.
Saving Face, Endangering Sex Workers: The Craigslist Saga
by Audacia Ray, International Women's Health Coalition
September 22, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
Craigslist’s self-censorship of adult services ads will not end sex trafficking. As a former advertiser, I know not all commercial sex is sex slavery.
