I was reading Oregon's laws regarding the sex trade and found that its definition of "prostitute" only covers "a male or female" who engage in prostitution (performing sex act for a fee), not any nonbinary persons (ORS 167.002). …

I'm remotely attending Portland City Council this morning to testify against the expansion of chronic nuisance property ordinance www.portland.gov/council/docu... It doesn't "address human trafficking"; it just displaces, isolates, and endangers people in or are adjacent to the sex trade.

Sunday in Seattle: Join Massage Parlor Organizing Project (MPOP) in honoring the 5th anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings as well as many other migrants who have since lost their lives to state and systemic violence. www.instagram.com/p/DVRbDF-EsZ...

In December 2025, Seattle Police Department sent a "chronic nuisance property" enforcement letter threatening legal actions in part because someone called 911 to seek assistance for overdose. Penalizing businesses for seeking medical assistance disincentivizes it and causes preventable deaths.

Updated version with data from all of 2025. Official numbers give the impression that only a small fraction of people who are charged with prostitution-related crimes in Seattle are BIPOC, but in reality 80+% are BIPOC in a city whose population is 60% "non-Hispanic whites."

It's hard to maintain interest in #waleg toward the end of the session as worst of the worst bills have been weeded out and some of the best bills have been watered down through amendments to the point that it's difficult to feel excited about them anymore, but it is still important to be involved.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

I don't doubt that there are some fraudulent sign-ins by opponents of the millionaire's tax, but the timestamps from these tens of thousands of sign-ins against the bill appear largely organic, pealking around lunchtime and dipping around 1-2am and also showing a different pattern for the weekend.

Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People “…a new enforcement crackdown led by the Seattle Public Library’s new head of security is turning librarians into part-time cops, and they’re not happy about it.”

Op/ed version of the “Top Five Demands to Stay Alive” to Mayor Katie Wilson that I posted earlier. www.realchangenews.org/news/2026/02...

Ethically Collaborating With Human Trafficking Survivor Leaders journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Newly published qualitative research about how anti-trafficking organizations and movements can work with survivor leaders and people with lived experiences better.

i'm of the generation that still feels holding hands with another girl with fingers interlocked out in public dangerous and subversive.

Hey people watch the live recording of the rock opera The Transfused (2000) written by Nomy Lamm and The Need (Rachel Carns & Radio Sloan). www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJ-... It was a small miracle that happened in the post-WTO protest era before the War on Terror and is very much relevant now as ever.

Just received another public record from King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

when i show this pic of my chihuahua kitti when she was a baby, people used to say “she likes like a stuffie.” now people say “oh my god, she looks like AI-generated!”

Sex Worker Advocates Demand Action from the City After Prosecutors' Dehumanizing Presentation The advocates want the city to listen to more diverse perspectives and stop infantilizing and ignoring sex workers who support a peer-led support system, rather than a carceral approach.

Survivor demands in response to KCPAO’s offensive presentation about sex trafficking and Seattle Public Safety committee’s complicity rightsandsafety.org/survivor-dem...

Today I'm testifying in #orleg House Judiciary Committee against HB 4157 olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M... which expands hearsay exception for criminal trials involving certain prostitution-related crimes. …

There were like 32 bills up for public hearing, and each speaker was limited to one minute, not usual two. She wasn't the only one asked to wrap up their testimonies. But that doesn't excuse the cold manner she was cut off, especially when she was discussing state culpability in her abuse.

i was invited to speak on a panel about transfeminisms but i think im going to speak about cisfeminisms instead.

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:

I’ve filled records requests, wait for a couple of years, and then I had to cancel them because they became too old to be relevant and they kept newer request from even being taken up. We need to move public records office out of SPD, the only city department with its own records system.

Seattle Police systemically undercounts BIPOC people who are arrested and charged with crime. Among people charged with prostitution-related crimes, most people who are marked as "white" and "unknown" are likely Latinos, and 80% of total are BIPOC in a city that is 60% non-Hispanic whites.

HB 2526 #waleg endangers people in the sex trade further. If you live in 33rd LD (all or part of Kent, Des Moines, Seatac, Tukwila, Renton, Burien) or 38th LD (Everett, Marysville) especially, please ask your reps to oppose 2526 RIGHT NOW before committee vote Tuesday. app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2526

Fred Korematsu is my kind of hero. Unlike principled resisters like Gordon Hirabayashi or Minoru Yasui who openly defied the EO to invite prosecution, Korematsu changed his appearance, name, and identity to escape. He only became a fighter after he was arrested anyway and visited by ACLU lawyers. …

A reminder that the King County Prosecutor is up for reelection this year.

#notohb2526 @edwinobras.bsky.social

Today, we recognized January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month in King County! Thanks to my co-sponsors CMs Lewis and Dunn, and thank you to Emi from the Coalition for Rights & Safety for joining us to accept. This is an affirmation of our commitment to addressing the root causes of trafficking.

I checked. And yes he did say OfferUp.

They say you can't make sex work safe so the only option is to abolish it. I say you can't make police and prisons and borders safe so the only option is…?

County Prosecutors Give Lurid Presentation on Sex Work Featuring Unredacted Images of Brutalized Women to Seattle Council Committee The point of the prurient presentation: “You can’t make sex work safe,” one deputy prosecutor said. publicola.com/2026/01/28/c...

We Participate in King County’s 2026 Human Trafficking Prevention Month Proclamation / Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade rightsandsafety.org/we-participa...

I’m sorry I didn’t say anything sooner. We can and must do better to protect people’s identities and not cause further trauma. Thank you for speaking up and raising awareness.

Prosecutors say that it was ok to use these photos because they are already public in some obscure court records somewhere. You know what that means? Prosecutors are telling survivors that if they prosecute our traffickers and abusers, …

My public comment to the Seattle Public Safety Committee this morning before the pornified KCPAO presentation.

And she’s running for reelection this year.

Cool cool love to be told that having been sexually abused as a child means I never get any autonomy and can never ever speak as an adult with a fully formed perspective of my own. That’s definitely something a person who actually cares about and respects people who have been victimized would say.

i spoke out against KCPAO’s exploitative and gratuitous use of a series of photos of brutalized and bloodied women survivors in my public comment before the presentation even started, because I saw them posted on the city’s website before the meeting. i thought perhaps …

Thank you the commenter and thank you @councilmember-amr.bsky.social @alexis4seattle.bsky.social

Also I can’t be certain that I didn’t mishear but did CM Saka actually say anything about people being trafficked on OfferUp? Maybe he was talking about used Wayfair furnitures?

SPD's Obstructive "Grouping" Policy "Violates the Public Records Act," Judge Rules For years, the police department has withheld records from people who file more than one request by declaring every request but one inactive and ignoring them. publicola.com/2026/01/27/s...

And here’s the text of my brief remark at my acceptance of the 2026 Human Trafficking Prevention Month proclamation at King County Council this afternoon.

After King County prosecutors described me as someone too traumatized to think correctly (i.e. agree with them), I’m about to accept the Human Trafficking Prevention Month proclamation at the King Council Council Chamber and give a brief remark. Watch live kingcounty.gov/en/independe...

Thank you Erica @ericacbarnett.bsky.social for the step by step reporting of this highly offensive and sickening presentation by King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office this morning.

KCPAO slide suggests that we need to pass the legislation increasing penalty for sex buying to prepare for FIFA World Cup. But the World Cup will be long gone by the time any bill passed in this legislative session goes into effect.

That’s a meeting organized by Rep. Goodman’s office that was supposed to be about listening to why we oppose the bill. But they chose to hold it at the KCPAO office (not a friendly place for us) and invited bunch of pro-criminalization groups to drown us out.

They. Don’t. Respect. Survivors.

My public comment to the Seattle Public Safety Committee this morning before the pornified KCPAO presentation.

The King County Prosecutor's Office is currently doing an exceptionally exploitative presentation about sex trafficking to the Seattle City Council that includes slides of identifiable bloodied, brutalized women and identifiable women who are nude or nearly nude.

Mayor Wilson — turn off the cameras.