I’m a community organizer for Red Umbrella Project, and for the past year and a half I’ve been one of the leaders in the struggle to ban the use of condoms as evidence of all prostitution-related offenses in New York. We recently had a great victory in this campaign with a NYPD directive issued that… Continue reading A Tidal Wave, Not A Fire Hose: Access To Condoms In New York And Why It Is Important To Decriminalization Struggles
Author: Emma Caterine
Emma Caterine is a community organizer with Red Umbrella Project, a Brooklyn based peer led group working to amplify the voices of people in the sex trades. She is a proud transgender woman, a socialist, and not-so-secretly a fan of Taylor Swift. Emma has spoken at colleges and conferences throughout the United States on sex work, trans women, civil rights history, racism, and police violence. You can reach her at emmacaterine@gmail.com
“The Higher End of the Community”: John Scarpa and Solidarity
There are John Scarpas everywhere. There is a John Scarpa in every department of the federal government. There is a John Scarpa in every police department. Every four years, a John Scarpa is nominated to run for president. Our world is full of John Scarpas. The difference is that, unlike his doppelgangers, the actual John… Continue reading “The Higher End of the Community”: John Scarpa and Solidarity