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
2024 Support Decrim NY
Violence against s3x workers has been increasing in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Read the press release Decrim NY issued yesterday to get the facts about decriminalization: bit.ly/decrimnyoct24
2024 Erotic Professionals & Allies United Rock the Vote!
Erotic Professionals & Allies United is partnering with Rock the Vote to make sure that our community is represented in elections this November.
🚨2024 Doxxing Alert: What You Can Do
You may or may not know, but recently the personal and family data of over 13K performers linked by their legal names has surfaced online. Free Speech Coalition can help!
2024 Election Information Impacting Workers
Sex Workers will be gathering online to discuss these and other related election issues in Tru The S$xWorker Vote, on Saturday, September 7, 2024
2024 M.A. v France
In 2019, a group of 261 sex workers from different backgrounds and nationalities, took a case (M.A and others v. France) against the French Prostitution Act to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) claiming that the law seriously endangers the physical and mental integrity and health of individuals engaged in prostitution.
2023-2024 Community Support Line
2023-2024 Community Support Line
2024 (2016 Revisited) Interview with The ESPLER Project
The 14th Amendment forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” By directly mentioning the role of the states, the 14th Amendment greatly expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans and is cited in more litigation than any other amendment. ~ Library of Congress.
2023 U.N. Work Group Report
The evidence is clear and the network of institutions willing to take a rights-based stance is growing. Decriminalization is the path forward for those interested in rights and justice for all women.
2023 Trans Day of Remembrance
Contributed by Chris Victoria for SWOP Behind Bars (www.swopbehindbars.org) Trans Day of Remembrance Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is a day dedicated to memorializing the lives of trans individuals who have lost their lives to transphobic violence. It serves as a poignant reminder of the institutional challenges faced by the trans community and the pressing … Continue reading 2023 Trans Day of Remembrance
2023 Eliminating discrimination against sex workers and securing their human rights | OHCHR
The Working Group proposes full decriminalisation of adult voluntary sex work from a human rights perspective, as it holds the greatest promise to address systemic discrimination and violence and the impunity for the violations of sex workers’ rights.
2023 June 3rd: Intl S/W Day
On June 2, 1975, over 100 sex workers in Lyon, France, engaged in a civil disobedience action that involved a week-long occupation of St. Nizer Church. The aim of the action was to generate a high-profile campaign which would highlight the State sanctioned police harassment of street based sex workers, the disgraceful in-action of police in responding to violence perpetrated against the Lyon sex worker community by a serial sexual assault offender, and the refusal of the French Minister for Women to engage in dialogue with French sex workers.
2023-2024 Feature: The Pennsylvania Project on SBBi, Sx Work & Viminal Services
Melanie's 5th appearance on The Pennsylvania Project radio show with Ken Krawchuck.
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