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2025 Feature: Old Pros in Iceland

Old Pros is co-producing a one-day conference, Sex Worker Stories and Public Policy, to educate the Icelandic public about why decriminalization is the only policy that reduces violence.The conference will take place at The Nordic House, a prestigious cultural center in Reykjavik, Iceland on Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 11–8pm UTC and will be free and open to the public. Sex Worker … Continue reading 2025 Feature: Old Pros in Iceland

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2025 Pittsburgh PA Decriminalizes Sx Work

An ordinance decriminalizing sex work is headed to Pittsburgh City Council | Social Justice | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper For Safer Sex Work has discussed this ordinance with the police and district attorney’s office, Nightingale said, and plans to do more outreach to educate law enforcement about the change to the minimum penalty should the ordinance pass. https://www.pghcitypaper.com/author/jordana-rosenfeld

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2025 IWD is International

The history of International Sex Workers Day began in the 1970s in France. Back then, prostitution was legal in France, but surrounding activities were illegal like pimping, operating a brothel, or paying for sex with someone underage. Nevertheless, police kept sex worker under increasing pressure, forcing them to work in secret. Sex workers weren’t protected, which led to increasing violence against them. The government did nothing to improve the situation.

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2024 Dec 17th: 21st Annual Int’l Day To End Violence Against S3X Workers (IDTEVASW)

Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers was first recognized in 2003 as a memorial and vigil for the victims of the Green River Killer in Seattle Washington. Since 2003, Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers has empowered people from cities around the world to come together and organize against discrimination and remember victims of violence. 
During the week of December 17th, sex worker communities and social justice organizations stage actions and vigils and work to raise awareness about violence that is commonly committed against sex workers

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Oct 19, 2024 From The Daily: ‘The Interview’: Mia Khalifa’s Messy World of Money, Sex and Activism.

Over the last decade or so, Mia Khalifa has been forced to try to find some answers. In 2014, when Khalifa, who was born in Lebanon and raised Catholic in the DC area, was 21 years old, she made a decision that changed the rest of her life. Khalifa was working in the adult film industry and performed in an explicit scene while wearing a hijab. The video went viral and the response was harsh. She even got death threats, including a Photoshopped image of her being beheaded by the Islamic State. The vitriol was part of what led Khalifa to leave the adult film industry and try to go back to anonymity. She couldn’t. From The Daily: 'The Interview': Mia Khalifa’s Messy World of Money, Sex and Activism, Oct 19, 2024