Sex Workers Outreach Project- USA is a national grassroots network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education, community building, and advocacy. In 2016, SWOP Behind Bars was founded to carry this mission further; to currently and formerly incarcerated sex workers.
Rock The Vote 2020
VOTE 2020 A Public Service Message Created By SWOP USA / SWOP Behind Bars.
COVID-19 Hurts by David Block
David Block has numerous articles published on disability, and also the dangers sex workers face. He is a Temple University graduate.
USPROS: CoVid 19
The Coronavirus is a Disaster for Sex Workers – April 24, 2020 PRESS RELEASE The Coronavirus is a Disaster for Sex Workers – We Need Resources! Contact: US PROStitutes Collective uspros@prostitutescollective.net Thousands of families in the US rely on the income from sex work to survive and have been thrown into a crisis by the coronavirus.
The movement to decriminalize sex work, explained by Anna North
Sex workers have been fighting for decriminalization for generations. Now politicians are starting to listen. Anna North John Locher/AP
Poetry: Radio Waves Antimony by Fred Hatt
For Mind to know the Real, it must enter a body. Therein it will revel in pleasure, and strive, and suffer, and die. Here you are, piloting a doomed craft on a river of glory
RADIO WAVES
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California Passes SB233
Sex Workers Applaud Vote By California Assembly For Passing SB233: SB 233 prohibits the arrest for prostitution of people who witness or are a victim of specified violent and serious crimes, and prohibits the use of condoms as evidence of sex work.
Poetry: We, Made of Bone by Mahtem Shiferraw
"We, Made of Bone" by Mahtem Shiferraw
Poetry: Transportation By Janet Fishman
Transportation Poetry by Janet Fishman, Painting by Philip Zuchman, Image Collage by Ms. Dante, Image of Ms. Dante also by Janet Fishman, at a Salon arranged by Deb Zuchman Philadelphia April 14th 2019
The War On Whores
Author and Whore, Maggie will be joined by Triple-X Secretary Kerry Porth and New Democratic Party candidate Sven Robinson will host a panel discussion following the film. The War on the Whores is a feature-length documentary that exposes the harms and waste of America’s escalating crackdown on sex work which masquerades as fighting sex trafficking and rescuing vulnerable women and girls caught up in sexual exploitation.
PA Women: Extreme Differences Of Opinion
One op editorial. Two totally different opinions. Posted below: Project SAFE's Aisha Mohammed's January op ed in Philly dot com, and Villa Nova's Legal Fellow Shea Rhodes discussing the op ed from an abolitionist perspective. Compare / Contrast. For those of us defined as youth survivors and adult sex workers we are caught between these radical extremes. As the PA motto goes its seems that No: both can’t survive!
Feature: Sex Workers Are Human Resources
JAN 10 • Thank you so much for your fair and balanced coverage of the 15th Annual IDTEVASW. Since 2012 SWOP and SAFE have strived to stand up and speak out in Philly on issues specific to stigma and gratuitous violence against sex workers. Folks are always amazed at how hard and painful this event is to do, yet in the end how truly blessed we are to be able to come together to do it. Many households in most areas of Greater Philadelphia, if not all of PA, are touched somehow by this issue. Talking about sex work and prostitution is hard. Living in shame and silence is harder. D/17 is not fun, though it is full of love. Truly. We are here because we have been there, and we care. Our voice is their voice. Thank you for covering the memorial. Words cannot even express the gratitude I feel right now. Philly is proving we got LOVE!
Poetry: Kerosene by Sarah Doughty
(C) Sarah Doughty Kerosene “I didn’t know who I would be. But I think I know now. I was meant to survive.”
SWOP Behind Bars
.Paralegal and Accounting Scholarships for incarcerated Sex Workers will be distributed on December 17, 2020 We have distributed more than 60 scholarships since 2016 and ALL of our scholarship recipients have completed their courses successfully. This year we will be granting advanced scholarships for 10 of our previous recipients so they can continue their educational … Continue reading SWOP Behind Bars
Sex Workers Recognised As ‘Women At Work’: National Human Rights Commission by palak agrawal
Sex Workers Recognised As 'Women At Work': National Human Rights Commission by palak agrawal : The commission issued an 11-page advisory titled 'Human Rights Advisory on rights of Women Context of COVID-19', listing the recommendations for sex workers under the women at work section.
Sex Worker Rights, Trans Rights and the UPR
Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 9:30 AM Join Penelope Saunders (BPPP), Monica Jones (the Outlaw Project), NJRUA, the Black Sex Worker Collective, and Cris Sardina (Desiree Alliance) to learn about what recommendations our communities would like to see made by the international community when the US is held accountable by the United Nations later on this year.
MOMENT of TRUTH
Moment of Truth June 2020: This is a moment of reckoning. The murder of George Floyd broke the collective heart of this country, and now, finally, millions of people are saying their names: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery - an endless list of Black Lives stolen at the hands and knees of … Continue reading MOMENT of TRUTH
Plaintiffs Continue Effort to Overturn FOSTA, One of the Broadest Internet Censorship Laws | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Special thanks to legal intern Ross Ufberg, who was lead author of this post.A group of organizations and individuals are continuing their fight to overturn the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, known as FOSTA, arguing that the law violates the Constitution. — Read on http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/plaintiffs-continue-effort-overturn-fosta-one-broadest-internet-censorship-laws A group of organizations and … Continue reading Plaintiffs Continue Effort to Overturn FOSTA, One of the Broadest Internet Censorship Laws | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Buy Books For Incarcerated Workers
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International Sex Worker Pride Day
As attorney general, Harris was also active in leading the charge against Backpage.com, a website that hosted classifieds ads and was used by many escorts — and, according to sex workers, a platform that was used as a resource for vetting clients and keeping themselves safe. In 2016, she filed numerous charges against the owners of the site, including money laundering, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping. Her argument was that it was a hub for sex trafficking, with some of the victims being children, even though the site was far more often used by escorts doing consensual sex work.
Kamala Harris: Sex Workers Wary of Biden VP Pick’s Record
Why Sex Workers Are Wary of Kamala Harris
Though she claims to support decriminalization, Joe Biden’s VP pick has a regressive record when it comes to sex-worker rights By EJ DICKSON ROLLING STONE
