Hello! I have forgotten too many things so here is one week of classes and what we did for it! DIS sets it up so that you choose a core course to travel with on two different breaks. The first break is local, so we went an hour over to Sweden, and the second break is coming up in a few weeks and will be in Amsterdam!
So to kick it off, we drove to Malmö and immediately settled in to our first talk by a former trans sex worker who now helps with a sex worker's rights organization. We learned about the Swedish model of criminalizing the purchase of sex and how that affects the sex workers. The next talk was from law enforcement and further explained the rationale behind that kind of law. The final talk was by a radical feminist who helped draft the legislation and believed that all prostitution is rape. Afterwards, we went to the hotel and were free for the night, so I got dinner at a Swedish/tapas place and had drinks at Bee Kök and Bar!
The next day held more talks, and we listened to a PhD candidate who presented her research on the complex experiences of sex workers at Gothenburg University. In the afternoon we listened to three women who run a church organization where they have coffee and therapy for sex workers. We had the rest of the evening free again, and some of us walked around the city for a few hours before getting dinner and going out later that night to Greta's.
The final day we went back to Denmark to see the Louisiana art museum, and it was pretty cool! It had an exhibit by Louise Bourgeois that was like the female version of Tim Burton but for modern art even though it was at least fifty years old. That night I returned home and had a dinner party with Ingrid and Pier where I tried Danish snaps for the first time!
You can check out all the pictures/videos (unedited, watch out) from the trip that I took for DIS here!
Overall I thought it was a great trip because of all the varying view points, and because it felt like I was starting to get closer to other students!
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