How many times must we watch this story play out? Sex workers have always been canaries in the coal mine, people still believe policies that were created to be anti sex worker won't come back and bite them. Anti sex work legislation is a litmus test before enacting it on the larger population.

It's not just Grok folks. OpenAI's Sora and TikTok are both being used to distribute sexualized images of minors, often with links to platforms like Telegram where actual CSAM is distributed. www.wired.com/story/people...

Seeing people jump in to argue that we should defend porn b/c they use “porn” to go after other stuff. Yes … AND “Porn” — explicit representation of sex — is good, in the same way that books are good. Some authors are offensive, but as a whole, it’s good to let people access their sexuality.

Government restrictions on speech, even “harmful” and “dangerous” speech, always turns out to be more dangerous and harmful than the speech itself.

Indiana created an age-verification law that would never work. It was warned it wouldn't work. And now that it hasn't worked, it's suing adult companies for failing to make it work. "It essentially bases liability on the failure to accomplish impossibilities." In other words, AV was a set up.

It began in 2003 in San Francisco, when sex workers and allies gathered to mourn the victims of the Green River Killer - women whose lives were erased not just by one man’s violence, but by a society that barely noticed they were gone.

Just a reminder that our candlelight vigil for #D-17 is happening in two days. ❤️☂️🕯️

#d17 #Seattle

#D17 events:

As we come to the eve of December 17, this day of remembrance, we hold space not only for grief but also for vision. December 17 is about honoring those we have lost, but it is also about insisting on the possibility of a world where sex workers live free from violence.

🗓️ #December2025 #Events 🧵 A little preview as usual, details below. This month is not as packed as November, but there are some niceties~ ^^ And, I hope, some more will turn up for D17. ❤️ (🗒️ PS: I will be updating this. If uninterested, remember you can mute it!)

Did anyone have a list of #D17 events happening tomorrow/this weekend?

A little report on the march. ^^ ❤️ 📰 www.wlrn.org/law-justice/...

need to figure out where to watch this “Womxn: Working” sheds light on sex workers in South Africa. The film explores efforts to influence policy through the Asijiki Coalition, a coalition uniting trade unions, legal experts, gender rights organizations, political allies" iol.co.za/news/politic...

looks like a list of people worth following 👀

A reminder that in Colorado, if a crime is committed against you while you are working as a SW, you CAN report it without fear of being charged or cited for your activities during said crime. CO Rev Stat § 18-1-712.5 law.justia.com/codes/colora... Hopefully more states adopt this!

Instead of offering support or justice, many law enforcement systems treat sex workers as criminals first and victims never. Reports of assault, rape, or theft are routinely ignored. In some cases, officers themselves are perpetrators of abuse, trading safety for sexual favors or threatening arrest.

Your regular reminder that when social media people say "Grok", they actually mean Musk's sycophantic chatbot, MechaHitler.

This is what they are being sued for? "Prause and Levy concluded NoFap, which promotes abstinence from masturbation and viewing pornography, is not an effective means of treatment. They also maintain that pornography is not addictive and shouldn't be presented as such in public health messaging"

So who will be around for slutwalk on December 13th with @decrim305.bsky.social

Important thread 🧵

#D17 is only a few days away 🕯 "Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer and one of America’s most prolific convicted serial killers, is receiving end-of-life care in a Washington state prison" www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

Support incarcerated sex workers

Unlearn the language of “good,” “innocent,” or “wrongfully.” Let go of any preconceived notions you had about “criminals.” There are no “good ones,” there are only people. Innocence is irrelevant because the laws have already betrayed us. truthout.org/articles/whe...

Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are asking for your help. We rely on donations to maintain our 24/7 hotline, re-entry bags, and a pen pal program for the currently incarcerated. We are able to do this work because someone like you helped fund this mission. www.swopbehindbars.org/donate

December 17 is recognized worldwide as the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers - a day of remembrance, resistance, and solidarity. It began in 2003 in San Francisco as a memorial for the victims of the Green River Killer.

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children. Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

World AIDS Day is a reminder that s-x workers have always been leaders in HIV prevention and advocacy. May all those we’ve lost be what propels us forward.

The public spends infinite energy debating sex workers’ “risk,” yet powerful men go unnamed while entire communities are criminalized. A system that can’t keep track of a sex worker’s court file will move mountains to protect the powerful from scrutiny. www.swopbehindbars.org/post/when-th...

Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content. www.wired.com/story/sex-wo...

sex workers are multidimensional individuals. we are not strictly sex workers. we have entire lives outside of work. we have hobbies, interests, relationships. we're humans if you can't respect that, you're not a real fan 🤷🏻‍♀️

Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!

For years, our Mentor-by-Mail program has been the quiet pulse behind countless transformations. It starts simply — a letter from a volunteer to an incarcerated sex worker or survivor. But that first piece of mail is often the first piece of hope someone has received in months.

wild considering most sex workers I know have had at least one of their accounts yeeted for the crime of existing

GAATW warns that some groups are now using anti-trafficking rhetoric to push bans on surrogacy and spread transphobic agendas. (For example: The NGO who made the recent Epstein PSA is anti-surrogacy). www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

If you don't know NCOSE actually started as "Operation Yorkville" and then "Morality in Media" an extremist religious org focused on stomping out ALL adult content, which they describe as pornographic. But it includes anything from LGBTQ content to atheism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

Community isn’t something you show up to consume. It requires you to contribute, collaborate, and commit-create. If you want community, you have to be community. #craftivism

We are once compiling a list of names for #Dec17 this year. If you have names to add to the list, please email us at [email protected] #D17

You cannot build trauma-informed services on top of carceral logic, exploitative labor conditions, and structures that burn through staff.

All hands on deck!

Remember this when you see scare headlines about the high rate of minors seeing “porn” online: They’re either not seeing it on porn sites or what they’re seeing isn’t actually porn. It turns out minors not necessarily know what “porn” even is. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/no...

Next up in our solidarities series is this brilliant piece on an unlikely tactical alliance. Unsettling and important look at the tensions involved and lessons from it. By Alex Andrews of @swopbehindbars.bsky.social for @beyondslavery.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

As we move toward December 17 - the 22nd Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers - we remember those we’ve lost and honor the fight that continues. For many of us, this day is not just a memorial. It’s a reckoning.

"The OSA is likely driving adults into a more fragmented, less regulated ecosystem, largely because people are uneasy about handing over ID. We’re probably not going to see less engagement with porn, we’ll see different routes to it — many of them far outside the spaces the law was written for.”

The divide isn’t abstract - it’s physical. You can taste it, smell it, see it on every empty shelf. It’s a surreal kind of cruelty to live in a country that can throw million-dollar celebrations while children go to bed with nothing. This isn’t about politics - it’s about priorities.

Please boost: Food fundraiser for SW moms and activists hit hardest by SNAP freezes. donorbox.org/feed-the-fam... This fundraiser was started by a SWing mom in our network, and is a collaboration between @swopbehindbars.bsky.social and @newmoonnetwork.bskyverified.social

I hate watching everything they were warned about come to fruition.

"Age verification is not just a major invasion of privacy, but bonanza for cybercriminals. With millions of internet users uploading images of their faces alongside government IDs so they can access online content, age verification companies have become extremely attractive targets for hackers."

Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could: * make camming illegal * redefine escort ads as pimping * render model contracts unenforceable * criminalize discussions of teen sexuality And a whole lot more ...