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2018’s Best Writing by Sex Workers

The Stormy Daniels Effect: When Prostitutes Unite, Powerful Men Tremble by Juniper Fitzgerald Is our power born from our stigma? How White Women Fuck Up Reparations by Jay St. James “Reparations don’t come due when you’ve reached your self-set level of financial comfort, they’re paid from the start of your financial independence in appreciation of… Continue reading 2018’s Best Writing by Sex Workers

How To Start A Post-SESTA Emergency Organizing Group

This post was jointly written by Maxine Holloway and Arabelle Raphael, co-founders of BAPS. On the morning after the Senate passed FOSTA we texted each other about whether we should remove our ads from our social media accounts. We weren’t exactly sure what to do and knew that many other people were in the same… Continue reading How To Start A Post-SESTA Emergency Organizing Group

Quote of the Week

I have friends that work in the sex industry…One of them is a woman named Daisy Delfina. I was messaging with her and felt like it was worth reading her quote. She said, “Sex work is work. And, like any other business, it’s bad laws criminalizing consensual transactional sex. He just sounds like the typical cheap blank… Continue reading Quote of the Week

International Whores’ Day (And Lobby Day!) Link Roundup

International Whores' Day at the Eastern Market Metro Station in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Francis Chung via Twitter)

What a week it’s been for sex worker organizing! The first sex worker Lobby Day on June 1st was followed by nationwide sex worker action on International Whores’ Day on June 2nd. Post-SESTA, this annual day of organizing picked up more momentum than ever. Here’s our attempt at curating the coverage of this week’s news… Continue reading International Whores’ Day (And Lobby Day!) Link Roundup