The relationship between sex workers and the South African Police Service has always been strained, with both male and female workers levelling allegations of discrimination and harassment against law enforcers. But sex workers say intensified policing during the nationwide lockdown has made matters far worse. As violence erupted in the United States over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, news broke of the death of a sex worker in police custody in Mowbray, Cape Town. - Sarah Smit
2020 TLM Online Presents: Sex Workers and the COVID-19 Crisis
Please join US PROS and others for a digital panel on Sex Workers and COVID-19 sponsored by the Tenderloin Museum. You’ll need to register first (see link below). TLM Online Presents: Sex Workers and the COVID-19 Crisis Wednesday, April 29, 2020 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Google Calendar ICS As with many industries, San Francisco's shelter-in-place order decimated the … Continue reading 2020 TLM Online Presents: Sex Workers and the COVID-19 Crisis
2020 HIPS Fundraiser
Good afternoon! I am pleased to let yall know we have so far disbursed $48,124 to DC Based Black, Brown, Indigenous, Trans sex workers in need. In the next day or so I will upload a new graphic displaying the breakdown. We have gotten over 336 requests and have fullfilled more 209 of them thus … Continue reading 2020 HIPS Fundraiser
2020 HIPS DC Outreach
The entire HIPS team has been working around the clock to roll out new ways to keep our essential, life saving services going.
2020 Scared but desperate, Thai sex workers forced to the street | The Japan Times
A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand's party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She's scared — Read on http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/05/asia-pacific/scared-desperate-thai-sex-workers-forced-street/
March 3rd International Sex Worker Rights Day
March 3rd International Sex Worker Rights Day
2020 Canada’s Sex Work Law Reform Explained
Sex Work and Changes to the Criminal Code After Bill C-36: What Does the Evidence Say? Criminalizing Communicating. http://sexworklawreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Laws-General.pdf
2019 How L.A. Activists and Allies Are Fighting to End Violence Against Sex Workers
December 17 is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a day of both solemn remembrance and activism. The commemoration began in 2004 when the founders of the Sex Workers Outreach Project and sex educator, artist and activist Annie Sprinkle joined forces to remember the victims of the Green River Killer
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.
Thank you Goddard College
So grateful for a successful presentation and a beautiful day! #together4goddard #thinkdeep @sexxinteractive #theesplerproject
#IHTSJC2019
Congratulations Dr. Jill McCracken and SWOP Behind Bars for achieving an influential scholar award at the University of Toledo 16th Annual International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference in Toledo, Ohio.
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