A great initiative you can volunteer for to help support the SW community 👍Also would love to recruit volunteers to help with Ugly Mugs Ireland sometime. It's just a bit more complicated for us as we deal with such sensitive data we have to be very security conscious

Appeal for some common sense on handbags please! A luxury handbag is one that costs 250 euro. A 25,000 euro handbag is something else entirely - a grotesque display of wealth and privilege. #MarieSteen

The Irish media is reporting an increase in brothel keeping prosecutions based on this PQ reply. What we DO NOT KNOW is WHO is being prosecuted for brothel keeping. How many are people working as sex workers? www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q...

If it were possible to charge a fee to folk just wasting our time, would definitely implement that 🤔

I'm qualified and practising in Irish immigration law for over a decade and I have NEVER seen as many absolutely batshit, not even arguably lawful decisions from the Minister for Justice as I am seeing now I fear our government has terminal social media brain

Smears and threats against lawyers representing people seeking asylum ramp up. “Solicitors play a vital role in the administration of justice and any threat to them is an attack on the legal rights of every person,” said a Law Society spokesperson. More here www.dublininquirer.com/smears-and-t...

The most serious case of trafficking in Northern Ireland to date according to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) and the offender is Irish www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Super exciting news, the Red Umbrella Film Festival is back! And it is looking fantastic! Well done to all involved 👏 www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-red-u...

Eventually this will happen to all the grifters collecting a fortune in government funding for spreading sex trafficking panic

"The British soldier accused of murdering the Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru in 2012 has been named as Robert James Purkiss." [Guardian] An arrest warrant has been issued in Kenya for his arrest on a charge of murder. He is alleged to have murdered her and dumped her body in a septic tank. She was 21.

Know Your Rights Protest Seminar Wednesday 1 October 7-9pm This session delivered by Phoenix Law will provide practical, up-to-date guidance on Protest Rights. Presentation followed by Q and A with lawyers and experienced organisers. Register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-...

📢 The Women’s Policy Group NI, led by WRDA, welcomes the Victims of Sexual Crimes Trauma Mitigation Bill. This Bill is an important step toward a more just, victim-centred legal process.

Good to see the Crown Office is opposing further criminalisation of sex work in Scotland, including citing the evidence from Ireland www.thenational.scot/news/2548108...

Police Scotland really showing how they feel about sex workers by backing a proposed law that would clearly cause huge harm to people engaging in sex work www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

We’ve sent an open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to tell him that the the government must act urgently to prevent increasing numbers of women being driven into sex work by poverty and financial need. (1/6)

Important step in duty of candour for public officials legislation. The 'Hillsborough Law' will compel public officials to tell the truth during investigations into major disasters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A shameful British Army cover up that's gone on for a decade already. Hoping Agnes Wanjiru's family see some justice soon. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

TW: Suicide. Police raids are violent events that leave lasting trauma. This is why we want police to stop raiding sex workers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sex Workers Take Back the Night! September 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pearse Street Library Screening a short film by Carol Leigh followed by a discussion with panellists from Red Umbrella Éireann, Global Women’s Strike Ireland, and Reclaim the Agenda. dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/sex-wo...

CALL FOR EVENTS The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign that takes place each year. Apply to host an event using the form below. tinyurl.com/16DaysNI25

When people die waiting in Ireland’s asylum system, their bodies may lie in limbo. Small changes on a form could make a big difference. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/when-people-...

WRDA is carrying out research on VAWG offences, especially domestic abuse, exacerbated by the use of firearms. The survey is completely anonymous. Read more about the research and find the link to the survey on the WRDA Website. www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is...

Gosh, some Sundays you think of Dr Vicky Conway and she is just missed so much tortoiseshack.ie/policed-podc...

A good example of why, if you are doing the right thing, you should stand your ground, even if the consequences are you being made unpopular in the short term 👇

Wondering if the Earl of Desart's thinking could have been right, and would his theory also go some way towards explaining why banning the purchase of sexual services, as Ireland has done in the 21st century, seems to increase the size of the industry?

Of no surprise to anybody who has ever seriously engaged with Gardai. This report is about roads policing. But can speak to it being the same with issues like child abuse, sexual violence, human trafficking. Many Gardai are determined not to do work.

This 👇100%

What's happened to this man is appalling. These are also the horror stories that deter migrants and LGBT+ people from engaging with the authorities when they are a victim of crime.

The comments on paying for sex services by British Army General Sir Roly Walker - "There is absolutely no place for sexual exploitation and abuse by people in the British Army. It is at complete odds with what it means to be a British soldier..." - will also be ringing rather hollow in many ears.

Also the British Army in Kenya should not be mentioned without acknowledging a British Army soldier murdered sex worker Agnes Wanjiru in 2012 and the British Army has covered this up and there has been no justice.

It seems merely telling people not to buy sexual services isn't effective wherever it happens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a tremendous piece on one of the most concerning aspects of the current Irish justice minister’s policy of placating racists. Via @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social of course www.dublininquirer.com/despite-over...

This is a really excellent piece of research. Well done SWAI.

Groups gathering outside addresses to demand the PSNI remove the occupier for being an alleged sex worker is not new. This has been going on regularly for many years.

The Gardai do not need more resources. They could just move resources around, i.e. prioritise child abuse as more important than other resource heavy activities they do for political reasons like harassing sex workers. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Important thread highlighting really excellent and much needed work from @swaiireland.bsky.social on sex workers and housing

Today we want to highlight the work that SWAI does. We have delivered our Sex Worker Awareness Training around the country to many types of organisations. We have received amazing feedback and 100% of our participants would recommend our training to others. We're really proud of this work!

Article in the @theirishvoice.bsky.social about Irish sex work history www.theirishvoice.com/post/revolut.... It doesn't, but should mention Dr Caroline West's fantastic book launched earlier this year - Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District

Sex work and queer history will be part of this year's Dublin Theatre Festival reports the Independent today www.independent.ie/regionals/du...

Interesting findings on the association between intimate partner violence and other crime, in this case violent disorder

New open access academic article on UK sex workers' experiences on criminal justice based on research which we and @swaiireland.bsky.social contributed to for Northern Ireland journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend, colleague, fellow activist & feminist, Roos Schippers. A memorial for community will be organised later, but this Saturday, 2 August @1 pm - at the same time as her service - we will already lay flowers at Belle for Roos. You are welcome to join.

Have noticed an increase of new member applicants sending us identity documents this week. We do not collect any identity documents ever. We delete them upon receiving. Ideally, never send us any! No identity verification going on here.

Decriminalise sex work so police don't have the power of criminalisation for sex work to hold over people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The hypocrisy of the Gardaí is on display here when they say that those in sex work will be treated with dignity. Gardaí routinely harass sex workers with so-called welfare checks, seize their earnings and lie to them to get access to them. www.rte.ie/video/id/266...

Learn about State Trafficking, a form of trafficking Ireland's richly gov funded anti-trafficking NGOs aren't likely to be raising awareness of

The UK is openly making private orgs into immigration enforcement agents. We have long expected this and taken care not to even collect any private info as a precaution. When you join Ugly Mugs, we will never ask you for any personal information like your name, address, nationality etc.

@migrantsrights.bsky.social found the 4 UK post codes subjected to the highest rate of immigration raids & enforcement are in N. Ireland and routes in and out of NI. BT3 (Belfast – Airport & Port) BT29 (Airport) CH41 (Birkenhead – Ferry to N. Ireland) DG9 (Stranraer – Ferry to N. Ireland) [2/2]

This is coverage of our announcement that SWAI will close by the end of the year due to lack of funding. www.independent.ie/regionals/du...