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Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about EARN IT on International Whores Day #IWD

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:42:44 +0000

Since its inception nearly 45 years ago, International Whores Day reclaims a sometimes derogatory word to set the tone for a day of political action.

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VA Legislators Grapple with Changing Bawdy Place, Prostitution Laws

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 23:22:48 +0000

This year’s Virginia General Assembly session has seen quite a few outdated morality laws removed from the books, but Del. Mark Levine still sees more to be done, specifically where Virginia’s “bawdy place” law is concerned. The General Assembly passed measures this session repealing restrictions on sexbefore marriage, swearing in public, and being a “habitual […]

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Pornhub Teams Up With SWOP-USA for International Women’s Day #IWD

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:54:38 +0000

For International Women’s Day, the folks at Pornhub are pleased to announce that they have once again partnered up with Pornhub has donated $50,000 to Sex Workers Outreach Project — USA (SWOP-USA) to celebrate and support women and their achievements, challenge inequality and stereotypes, and work together to create a gender equality world! This March […]

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Los Angeles Magazine: How L.A. Activists and Allies Are Fighting to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:01:13 +0000

From Wednesday’s Los Angeles Magazine online: Gathered in a meeting room at an East Los Angeles healthcare center, activists pass around a cellphone from which they read names, one by one. There are a lot of names on the list they’re looking at—over 200—and it takes more than 20 minutes to memorialize the each of the […]

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West Hollywood Activists Fight For Sex Worker Protections

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:43:54 +0000

The panel is held in West Hollywood discussed ways of working toward decriminalizing, and taking away the stigmas associated with, sex work. Sex workers want to be treated with respect and don’t want to be stigmatized and pathologized as suffering from a mental disorder. This was the message that came, loud and clear, out of a panel discussion regarding sex work held Thursday night at […]

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Lecturers and students back sex worker group amid Julie Bindel-inspired tumult

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:46:08 +0000

Two universities in England have insisted they are not promoting prostitution after a sex workers’ support group was given a stall at its freshers’ fairs, despite the claims of the revolting feminist Julie Bindel. Lecturers and students alike have defended the Sex Worker’s Outreach Project (SWOP), which had a stall at the fairs. Following […]

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‘You have to be brave’: Australian sex worker advocate Julie Bates recognized

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:17:07 +0000

Julie Bates has been awarded an Order of Australia for her advocacy for sex workers and other marginalized Australians. Julie Bates laughs at the way she instinctively responded when the emblem of the Crown bobbed up on an email in her inbox a few weeks ago. “I thought ‘Oh my God, what have I done […]

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Modern Feminism is Disgusting: Women’s March attacked for the blasphemy of supporting sex workers

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:12:12 +0000

The attacks on the Women’s March demonstrate that the most putrid pearl clutching about sex work comes, once again, from the left. If you’re a woman with a point of view that differs from their orthodoxy, modern feminism says you are a traitor to all women and suffer from a false consciousness. From Yahoo.com: […]

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