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!

If you want to support politicians who will advocate for the full decriminalization of sex work, give my friend Evan a follow! Evan just announced their run for Massachusetts State House and has long been an ally for marginalized workers. They would also be the second openly non-binary state rep!

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...

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.

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.