it's funny that one of the people on bluesky's board made a "social media head of trust and safety simulator" game years back, and the way to get a five star rating was to stand up for sex workers and tell the government to fuck off and die

Supporting the Epstein survivors is important, but please don’t support World Without Exploitation. They advocate for policies that are really harmful to sex workers, like the Nordic Model, which puts sex workers at greater risk of violence and poverty by criminalizing their clients.

Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…

okay but why did Epstein and his people use email like it’s texts

I’m excited to be presenting at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference this week! @theenwsa.bsky.social I’ll be presenting, “‘It’s Not Easy:’ How Sex Workers in Ecuador and Argentina Feel About Selling Sex,” on the panel “Challenging Gender Imperialism in 2025” on Friday at 11:30.

every time I teach I feel like this

re: No King’s Day discourse I have two main things: (1) protests work but not how people think (ie, as a way to get someone in power to “do something”); and (2) it is not at all important that the people mobilizing in protest, especially if they are new to the game, know that

This weekend, we reached ~25 people with our street outreach at Mass & Cass, giving out feminine products, condoms & lube, water, snacks, underwear, socks, and makeup. It was harder to find people this week, as the police have been cracking down lately and pushing people into hiding.

In Memoriam Mala Htun (1969-2025) Mala Htun made a major impact on the study of women, gender, and politics as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and advocate. To honor her contributions, we have ungated access to her articles until the end of February 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Slightly diminish a book A Tale of Two Unincorporated Municipalities

Slightly diminish a book Crime and a Slap on the Wrist

we need Bubbles to save us from Ron DeSantis

i hope this email finds you

what if we start a new political party called the Frat Party

My best friend and his husband, both of whom are trans men, are in the running for America’s Favorite Couple! It would be amazing to see a trans couple win this kind of recognition right now. Can you give them a vote? 🩵🩷 They’re currently in 2nd place! americasfavcouple.org/2025/caius-a...

The politics around sex work in Colombia are 🤯. President Petro is fighting with his Vice President and Minister of Equality over his decision to appoint a former porn actor to an important ministry position. He leverages their race to criticize them for discriminating against a sex worker.

We testified at Cambridge city counsel to educate on the needs of sex workers in the city, emphasizing decriminalization so that workers can seek help without fear of arrest when they are victims of a crime. When sex workers are safer, we are all safer. 💞 www.cambridgeday.com/2025/06/24/d...

This week was International Whore’s Day! ☂️ In honor of all the sex workers who’ve fought for their rights, we’re asking you to write to your Massachusetts legislators to ask them to co-sponsor these bills for sex workers’ safety. Go to bit.ly/SupportMASexWorkers 💕

What are the costs of Trump and Rubio’s destruction of USAID? Sexual violence, human trafficking, fatal stampedes, malnourished children, shootings in refugee camps. @propublica.org reports on memos from inside our own government on the damage we are doing. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I have a huge request for my readers: Trump's tax and spending bill will be moving through the Senate. Senators can invoke the Byrd Rule to try to remove the anti-trans Medicaid ban and EHB changes. You can find and call your senator here and ask them to do that. Please share as well.

Ryan walked so Pedro can strut

pedro pascal memes are the new ryan gosling hey girl memes

Can’t wait to speak on this panel for the launch of a new report on working conditions on adult platforms! I’ll discuss what we’ve done at @mintstars.bsky.social to offer better conditions for adult creators. Major props to Fairwork for including sex workers in their review of platform labor!

Find our Co-Founder, @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social, speaking on the Fairwork Sexwork panel 5/15 @ 10am EST, discussing and examining working conditions for online SWs and what mainstream platforms can do to improve SW rights. 🔗 below to register to the Zoom Webinar!

Our member @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social had a letter published in the @bostonglobe.com yesterday! Criminalizing clients puts us in danger - when clients are scared of arrest, we have fewer clients to choose from and have to lower our prices or accept dangerous clients who we would otherwise refuse.

Are you 18-34 and have engaged in sexual acts for financial compensation? We’ve just learned of this research study by @laragerassi.bsky.social which will pay you a $75 gift card in exchange for a one hour interview! uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The Trump administration is canceling funds for human trafficking prevention.

Since the recent news about the Cambridge/Watertown brothel case, we’ve been calling for the public to listen to migrant sex workers. This Saturday, you can! Join us for the launch of #NotYourRescueProject book, with leaders from Asian migrant sex worker collective Butterfly.

Pleased to have spoken with @wgbh.org on behalf of @bostonswac.bsky.social about the Cambridge/Watertown brothel case, and what policies will support the health and safety of sex workers in Massachusetts.

NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

We are concerned about the assumptions being made in recent coverage of the Cambridge/Watertown brothel case. Please see below our statement in response to the naming of alleged clients of the brothel network, including Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner. bswac.org/2025/03/27/b...

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

me and this taxi driver in Guatemala both jamming to Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel without saying a word to each other is giving me joy rn

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Again, goodbye freedom of speech

One of the most authoritarian acts I’ve seen so far - this researcher was denied entry to the US because he had texts on his phone that were critical of Trump. It would appear free speech is a thing of the past. apple.news/AyxaHZZEQR5y...

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

I will *never* stop talking about what a game changer @mintstars.bsky.social has been for the sw community!! They will the absolute *best* site out there :) once they get camming & video calls I will be deleting almost all my other websites :3

30 yrs old today

My dad is a cancer researcher, and he’s asking people to sign this petition to stop funding cuts for scientific research. Please share! chng.it/YfNNN4YbSK

Sex worker organizations desperately need more funding. When considering where to donate this year, your dollars could make a big impact for these organizations. www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/its-fre...

They have to review and respond to every unique comment by law, so every message you send below supports efforts to block this policy from further harming trans people.

democrats strategy to stop trump

Creators lose thousands every year to chargebacks. Banks freeze accounts with no warning. Platforms take a cut and still don’t protect you. MintStars was built to change that. 🚫 no chargebacks 💯 100% payouts 💸 instant withdrawals Financial discrimination ends here.

Watched the Oscars and confused about Sean Baker & Mikey Madison shouting out “the sex worker community”? Here’s an explanation, from actual sex workers 🧵 (Plus, what you won’t learn from Anora but ought to know)

My thoughts about Anora are similar to how I felt about Sean Baker’s other movie Tangerine - it was good but not amazing, great acting & nice to see representation of sex worker stories, but lacked political analysis and didn’t really challenge viewers’ pre-existing stereotypes.

I just read the lawsuit and it’s absolutely horrific. Adult platforms are for ADULTS, and adult creators have been raising the alarm about Passes allowing minors for a while now. Instructing a 17-yr-old to create sexual content before her 18th birthday is CSAM, full stop.

Back in Guatemala 6 months later and really sad to learn that Casa Violeta, the house for women migrants at the Guatemala-Mexico border that I mentioned in this article, has had to shut down due to the end of USAID funding. The house provided food, showers, and therapy for vulnerable women.

Latin America’s sex industry needs better labor laws. In our most recent issue, @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social considers what equitable protections might look like.