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2019 Sex Worker Self-Care Kit

These tips are from sex workers for sex workers: The thing about self-care is that it is never one size fits all. Sex workers—those who offer services between consenting adults like companionship, intimacy, escorting, dancing, camming, and countless other sexual and nonsexual services—are as diverse a group as the general population, and their individual self-care needs can vary just as much. That said, when I asked members of the sex work community about their personal self-care routines, a few themes popped up, from dealing with the stigma against sex work to taking care of their bodies.

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Commercial Sex in American Law

Abstract: Questioning the relationship of prostitution with feminism, XXX investigates the history of the sex industry, and how over the last thirty years it has contributed to fragmenting the American women’s movement. Amidst the disagreements there are issues that greatly need unified attention, not just to better conditions for women who choose to work in the sex industry, but also to assist in defining the laws to protect women that are brought into the trade against their

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Sharmus Outlaw Advocacy & Rights Institute

Thank you SOAR Institute for an inspiring dinner meeting in Philadelphia! SOAR Brooklyn Visits Philly What we do: Promote a new vision of human trafficking that respects the autonomy and needs of those most affected by the systems at playCreate life-affirming policy change for those in the sex industry through legislative advocacy Advocate for human rights … Continue reading Sharmus Outlaw Advocacy & Rights Institute

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Funding sex worker activism is no longer taboo.

Sex workers are criminalised for their means of making a living in all but a handful of countries and jurisdictions. Addressing stigma and violence are key priorities of sex worker groups everywhere. For most sex workers, police are not there to protect them but perpetrate most of the violence against them. Harassment, confiscation of condoms, extortion, arbitrary arrest, and rape are common examples of police violence. Nadia van der Linde is the Coordinator of the Red Umbrella Fund, the first global grant making organisation for and by sex workers based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Previously she lived in Thailand, where she organised the first Asia and Pacific Regional Consultation on HIV and Sex Work. Nadia would like to thank Chantelle de Nobrega at Mama Cash for her valuable feedback on earlier versions of this article.

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UJC Crowdrise

The Sex Workers Project (SWP) at the Urban Justice Center (UJC) is seeking community support to help transition 60 clients from receiving our services who are people working in the sex trades and/or are survivors of human trafficking.   https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/support-sex-workers-and-survivors-of-human-trafficking-today We recently lost a major government grant that funded trauma-informed therapy, case management, assistance with … Continue reading UJC Crowdrise