Loved attending Councilor Santana’s @clrhenrysantana.bsky.social Pride event today and meeting so many amazing LGBTQ+ activists! Politicians actually listening and inviting us in is the kinda thing that keeps me hopeful in this work.

Every year, the cheers we hear at Pride get a little bit louder. We dream for a day when none of us has to wear a paper bag over our head to protect our identity, when none of our members fear marching because they could be recognized as a sex worker. Thanks for enabling us to be ourselves.

You, but as a cartoon

Massachusetts residents: take 2 mins to tell the House Ways & Means Committee to protect sex workers this Pride! 🌈☂️ We’re asking them to pass 2 bills to create a commission to study decriminalizing sex work and to eliminate the crime of common night walking. bit.ly/sexworkpridema

I am so devastated to learn of the passing of @raulpachecovega.bsky.social, who I just had coffee with a week ago. We met at @repalconference.bsky.social and he was one of the kindest, most genuine people I have ever met in academia. He made me feel like my work mattered.

I got my master’s in passing today!

So proud of my mom, who made it onto the cover of this New York Times story for marching for voting rights in Selma yesterday! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

Most literature search tools make you guess the right keyword. This one lets you follow the research. The Sex Industry Research Network: a free, interactive map of global research on sex work, sex industries, and trafficking. 47,880 papers · 62,296 authors · 178,577 connections 1/3

Anyone want to buy Spirit Airlines with me? letsbuyspiritair.com

I’ve never read a better dog name

10/10, chef’s kiss 🤌🏻

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

This is good. www.geesemag.com/articles/aoc...

Great article on the devastating harms of age verification laws for adult performers. thebaffler.com/latest/paper...

A few weeks ago the latest release of the Epstein files revealed that Trump had sexually assaulted a 13 or 15 yr old girl, and nobody is talking about it

HEY MASSACHUSETTS!! Do you know about the sex worker led activist group @bostonswac.bsky.social? Now you do! We're pushing for full decriminalization of sex work in MA and they current step is getting a bill pushed through to the MA House for a vote! Support here: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

i reflected on the blowjob and decided it’s a dialectical practice

meanwhile, totally normal things are happening in the other place

ah yes, radfems being totally normal on the internet again and getting mad about *checks notes* sodomy

Good riddance to Leo Radvinsky, one of the largest donors to AIPAC, who it’s been reported initially made his money by showing ads promoting CSAM and animal abuse videos, before going on to extract $1M/day from adult content creators on OnlyFans. www.ft.com/content/3451...

Hey @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com @moderation.bsky.app, is it true that Bluesky is about to ban in-person sex workers from the app? If so that is really infuriating. Sex workers were one of the key populations that built this app on your promises that this platform would not discriminate against them

My boyfriend told me he made something for me this morning

Thank you for 6k followers! 🥳

1. Write to the Massachusetts House Judiciary Committee to urge them to support decriminalizing independent sex work and enable sex workers to report crimes without fear of arrest. bit.ly/MAJudiciarySupportSWs

Here are 5 actions you can take to support Massachusetts sex workers for International Sex Workers’ Rights Day! ✨

I missed my train and duo is mocking me

how I expect all men to treat me from now on

@moderation.cryptoanarchy.network could you please remove @bostonswac.bsky.social from your Lewd purveyors list? We are an advocacy organization and don’t post lewd content. Thanks!

Mayor Wu’s administration @mayorwu.boston.gov is trying to ban street outreach at Mass & Cass, targeting the very people who help street based sex workers and drug users stay alive. This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.

Can anyone help? Caty is an incredible organizer with Whose Corner Is It Anyway, which provides crucial mutual aid for low income sex workers in Western Mass. She just had her Facebook account permanently banned, devastating her ability to share info and raise funds. Please repost!

remembering how when I was little I wanted to celebrate hanukkah after I learned about it in school, but we didn’t have a menorah, so my dad took a banana and stuck some birthday candles in it

We just noticed that the size of our orange juice carton has shrunk while the price has gone up! Florida’s Natural what the hell??

Incredible, highly recommend

The government just admonished banks for discriminating against adult businesses. This is huge!

One of our members, a neurodivergent trans woman facing multiple barriers in the workplace, is currently unhoused and looking for support to stay in a motel until she can find more stable housing. If you can help, her Cash App is $AvaB1400. She is also looking for jobs to apply to. Thank you! 💖

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

tried Raya, and can confirm it’s tremendously underwhelming and a waste of money unless what you’re looking for is a man in finance, trust fund, 6’ 5”, blue eyes

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Nick Fuentes has been working overtime to sanitize his image and present himself as a uniter of the left and right. Very clearly using language often associated with the left. This is part of a larger effort by the anti-Zionist antisemitic far right to recruit people on the left.

i miss when this place was just trans communists and sex workers

Our bill to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts is being heard at the State House next Tuesday, 11/25 at 10am! We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!

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...