3-hour Introduction to Full Force Self Defense
July 14, 2013 at the Center for Sex and Culture, 4-7 pm
Learning a new physical skill requires practice. You cannot learn to ride a bicycle by reading about bicycles or talking about riding. You have to ride. Impact style self defense is the only type of self defense training that allows students to learn what it feels like to hit someone full force, in an adrenalized state. Learning in this way creates “muscle memory” so that in the event of an attack, students do not need to think, but can act quickly and effectively.
Impact Bay Area has been teaching full-force self defense since 1985. We have taught thousands of students, many of whom report successfully using the skills they learned even many years after taking the class. Our students tell us that they move through the world with greater confidence and success knowing that they have the physical skills at hand, even if they never use them.
Our instructors received hundreds of hours of training to keep students physically and emotionally safe. All of our classes are limited to 16 students.
In this introduction to Impact-style self defense, participants will practice using intuition, awareness, body language, and voice to deescalate and deter attacks. Students will learn multiple physical techniques that they can practice full force in simulated fight scenarios. Scenarios include front and rear attacks as well as an introduction to fighting from the ground. People leave even this short introduction class feeling empowered and often surprised by their own power and courage. $125 (Scholarships are available. Contact Lisa@impactbayarea.org)
“I wanted to thank you for sending Annabel on Friday. Her class was amazing and she was inspirational, patient, smart, kind. 3 of the gals who were in the Intro class were together this weekend for a work engagement. One of us left and before she got to the corner she was groped and assaulted. She did a great job of defending herself and because of the training we received from Annabel we were able to take the upper hand and know that this person is now jailed.” -Dottie Lux, Red Hot Burlesque
Impact Bay Area does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical ability, financial circumstances or abuse history. We are a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to providing self-defense and empowerment training to Bay Area and Northern California communities. We welcome everyone who wants to learn personal safety and self-defense.
For more information or to sign up for the class, please contact Lisa@impactbayarea.org.
![Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop (usually 2nd Saturday of Every Month), 2-4pm
March 9th, 2013
Center for Sex and Culture: 1349 Mission St. San Francisco, CA
Cost: Sliding scale $10-$20 (more if you can, less if you can’t, **nobody turned away** — if you’re broke you should still come write with us! - 2nd Saturday of Every Month)
Workshop facilitated by Gina de Vries.
This is a writing workshop for current and former sex workers to share their writing and get honest, non-judgmental feedback. Workshop participants are not obligated to write exclusively about sex work, but writing about work in the sex industry (as well as writing about other topics) will be welcomed. This is a place where people can write and share about their sex work experiences without having to censor themselves or explain every detail. Beginning writers are encouraged to attend along with more seasoned wordsmiths.
Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop is all-genders. We define the term “sex worker” broadly, as people who have exchanged erotic labor for money/food/shelter, including but not limited to:
+Street and Survival Sex Workers
+Escorts and Personal Companions
+Sensual Massage and Sensual Body Work Providers
+BDSM workers; pro-dommes, subs, and switches
+Adult Film Actors; Porn Models and Performers; Nude Models; Cam Girls and Boys
+Exotic Dancers; Strippers; and Peep Show Workers
+Phone Sex Operators
+And many other Sex Workers and Adult Entertainers!
(If we’re forgetting your area of the industry in this definition, tell us!)
**Email questions, volunteer inquiries, etc, to queershoulder@gmail.com.
**If wheelchair access is needed, please contact mail@sexandculture.org in advance of workshop.
**While we can’t guarantee a scent-free space, we ask that all attendees please refrain from wearing scented products to ensure that workshop members with chemical sensitivities can attend.
**We ask that our non-sex worker friends, lovers, partners, allies, and clients respect that this space is FOR SEX WORKERS ONLY.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Gina de Vries is a genderqueer femme, a queer Paisan pervert, and a writer, performer, and activist with a long history doing political organizing in and withqueer, trans and gender-variant, and sex worker communities. She co-edited the queer youth anthology [Becoming] with Diane Anderson-Minshall in 2004, and her publications include Coming & Crying: true stories about sex from the other side of the bed, Take Me There: Trans & Genderqueer Erotica, Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet, The Revolution Starts at Home, $pread, Curve, make/shift, and On Our Backs. Gina is the founder and co-curator (with Elena Rose and Julia Serano) of “Girl Talk: a trans & cis woman dialogue,” a spoken-word show fostering and promoting dialogue about relationships of all kinds between cis and trans women.
She has performed, taught, and lectured everywhere from chapels to leatherbar backrooms, and recent university appearances include Harvard University and Yale University. Gina regularly presents on issues ranging from sex work to intersex activism for the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program of the Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps, and works a day job fundraising for St. James Infirmary, the nation’s only clinic run by and for current & former sex workers.
She is the founder and facilitator of Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop, a writing class for current & former sex workers at San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture (where she also serves on the Advisory Board). A graduate of Hampshire College, Gina is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing at San Francisco State University, where she is working on a memoir and a book of short stories. Find out more at ginadevries.com, and keep track of her on the daily at http://queershoulder.tumblr.com](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d250cb3738ae47de925fbc1a23a0052/tumblr_mh5oozll6Z1qkk1sio1_250.jpg)
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