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> Today is SexWorker Pride!!
> Today, we celebrate sex workers across Africa, in all our diversity.
> We celebrate our right to make decisions about our own lives, our bodies and our futures. We celebrate the communities we have built, the progress we have made and the sex workers who continue to organise, lead, support one another and push for change across the continent.
> Sex Worker Pride is also a moment to recognise how far our movement has come, while remembering that many sex workers continue to face criminalisation, discrimination and stigma simply because of who we are and the work we do.
> Today, we celebrate our Pride, and we continue to call for the decriminalisation of sex work.
> Happy Sex Worker Pride!
— ASWA 🌍
> #SexWorkerPride #ThisIsOurPride #DecriminaliseSexWork #SexWorkersRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #ASWA
#SexWork #SWPD #SWPD2026 #SexWorkerPride #ASWAAlliance #Africa
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> Today is SexWorker Pride!!
> Today, we celebrate sex workers across Africa, in all our diversity.
> We celebrate our right to make decisions about our own lives, our bodies and our futures. We celebrate the communities we have built, the progress we have made and the sex workers who continue to organise, lead, support one another and push for change across the continent.
> Sex Worker Pride is also a moment to recognise how far our movement has come, while remembering that many sex workers continue to face criminalisation, discrimination and stigma simply because of who we are and the work we do.
> Today, we celebrate our Pride, and we continue to call for the decriminalisation of sex work.
> Happy Sex Worker Pride!
— ASWA 🌍
> #SexWorkerPride #ThisIsOurPride #DecriminaliseSexWork #SexWorkersRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #ASWA
#SexWork #SWPD #SWPD2026 #SexWorkerPride #ASWAAlliance #Africa
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> Today is SexWorker Pride!!
> Today, we celebrate sex workers across Africa, in all our diversity.
> We celebrate our right to make decisions about our own lives, our bodies and our futures. We celebrate the communities we have built, the progress we have made and the sex workers who continue to organise, lead, support one another and push for change across the continent.
> Sex Worker Pride is also a moment to recognise how far our movement has come, while remembering that many sex workers continue to face criminalisation, discrimination and stigma simply because of who we are and the work we do.
> Today, we celebrate our Pride, and we continue to call for the decriminalisation of sex work.
> Happy Sex Worker Pride!
— ASWA 🌍
> #SexWorkerPride #ThisIsOurPride #DecriminaliseSexWork #SexWorkersRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #ASWA
#SexWork #SWPD #SWPD2026 #SexWorkerPride #ASWAAlliance #Africa
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> Today is SexWorker Pride!!
> Today, we celebrate sex workers across Africa, in all our diversity.
> We celebrate our right to make decisions about our own lives, our bodies and our futures. We celebrate the communities we have built, the progress we have made and the sex workers who continue to organise, lead, support one another and push for change across the continent.
> Sex Worker Pride is also a moment to recognise how far our movement has come, while remembering that many sex workers continue to face criminalisation, discrimination and stigma simply because of who we are and the work we do.
> Today, we celebrate our Pride, and we continue to call for the decriminalisation of sex work.
> Happy Sex Worker Pride!
— ASWA 🌍
> #SexWorkerPride #ThisIsOurPride #DecriminaliseSexWork #SexWorkersRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #ASWA
#SexWork #SWPD #SWPD2026 #SexWorkerPride #ASWAAlliance #Africa
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Need advice !
If you're not an online sex worker, please boost !
if you are one, what are the platforms you use for ppv, and what are the pros/cons and charges ?
Thaaanks !
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> Today, September 14th, is sex worker pride.
> With our communities constantly suffering stigma, discrimination, and violence, celebration is not always easy.
> Yet our joy is an important part of the story. This year ESWA celebrates our pride day by launching a project that's been long in the making: The Sex Worker's Network of Artists, Creatives and Communicators (SNACC).
> SNACC aims to provide spaces for networking and collaboration, learning, and promotion of sex workers' art and creativity.
> Check [https://www.eswalliance.org/join_snacc] for more info - and join us in a celebration of sex worker talent at SNACC!
— ESWA 🇪🇺
✍️ Application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6LU9fDPsatst3XRj8DIEBCkI0O8GOKP2R4mu2j4LmoL5NuQ/viewform
#SexWork #SWPD #SWPD2026 #SexWorkerPride #ESWA #Europe #SNACC #SexWorkers #Artist #Illustrators #Photographers #Painters #Filmmakers #Screenwriters #Writers #Journalists #Authors #Poets #Copywriters #Performers #Actors #Dancers #Choreographers #Designers #Bloggers #ContentCreators #Musicians #DJs #Composers #Art #Culture
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> 14th September 2019 marked the first Sex Worker Pride, created to celebrate sex workers’ self-determination and the achievements of the sex worker rights movement. Many sex worker groups marked the day with events and online actions. Happy Sex Worker Pride to you all!!
> On Sex Worker Pride, NSWP joined GNP+ and ICW in announcing its full support for HIV2020, given the IAS decision to host the 2020 International AIDS Conference (AIDS2020) in a the USA where there are legal travel restrictions for sex workers- for the second time in a decade. https://www.nswp.org/news/community-led-networks-are-organising-alternative-international-aids-conference-event-heres-why
> This year Red Umbrella Fund is celebrating being a part of a movement that is self-led: sex worker-led. We love to see what the movement is doing. Join us on our other platforms to follow along. We will reshare as many of them as we can! Happy Sex Worker Pride to you all!!
> This month we will launch a campaign #ProudToBeSexWorkerLed - we will raffle off a care package to supporters.Join our Supporter Newsletter by making a donation (of any size!) and opt in. On 17 Dec we will choose a winner from our Supporter Newletter subscribers.
— Red Umbrella Fund 🗺️
#SexWork #SWPD #SWPD2026 #SexWorkerPride #RUF #RedUmbrellaFund
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A lot of the discussion about sexbots is about the users and manufacturers. But what do sex workers think about the tech?
This study asked them, and the answers are interesting. There is concern, but also many thoughts on authenticity.Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-025-01146-z
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CW: :tardis: English Introduction ( :boost_requested: Please Boost) cw: eye contact
Hi, I'm Melo, a thirty-something years old white queer disabled trans girl, this account will be dedicated to sex work
i'm really into overalls, fishnet, soft lightings and my own butt, so you'll see a lot of those in my sets 😏
I currently live in south of France with one of the best humans on earth and two of the best cats.
I do electronics and programming as a hobby, and also some drawing and painting which i'm really bad at but appreciate doing.
i'm your average geek girl that loves video and board games, scifi TV-shows and electronics.
:meow_game_controller:
celeste :mario_8bit:, hades :neofox_devil:, mario kart :mariokart_peach:, zelda :meow_hero_glow:, pokemon :charmander_yay:..
:meow_popcorn:
drWho :tardis:, Twilight zone :blobcat_oh_no:, The Owl House :blobhaj_witch:..
:ablobcat_dj:
techno, punk, rap, pop..
here we are against every cage, supremacy, exploitation !
we want (with many other things) the abolition of gender, capitalism, racism, jail, ableism, speciesism, sanism...
i'll try to always cw correctly my content, tell me if i fail, i also always do alt text, feel free to criticize it.
#introductions #introduction #sexWork #sexWorker #presentation #transwoman #trans #transNsfw #nsfw #tGirl -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117149781622837997
So, “expert” panel on sex work made of cis white accommodated men whose only knowledge about sex work is from the times they hired a whore..? (And which they'll all deny, so nominally: none whatsoever)
And TALKING WITH SEX WORKERS themselves or their associations (such as SWASH) is not even CONSIDERED..?
Great to know that an “expert panel” is not required to have two working neurons between all its members. 😮💨🤦♀️
For real, they actually have the galls to claim something like…
> Panel members also stressed the importance of providing sex workers with protection and support tailored to their respective circumstances, as needed.
… once more, while not even looking for sex worker input… 🙄 “tailored to their circumstances” the hell it is…
… and yet to STOP MAKING THEM CRIMINALS is judged unacceptable, for what's basically no reason whatsoever:
> However, a majority of members called for maintaining the [anti-prostitution] provisions, noting that scrapping them could send the wrong message
Sure, let's also prohibit giving food or money to the unhoused because not doing so could send the wrong message that vagrancy is tolerated. Or let's forbid giving people mental health support, least somebody assumed lunacy is tolerated. And let's of course sanction sex education, heavens forbid somebody could think that an ectopic pregnancy might require an abortion!
I seriously have a hard time believing these people have though twice (or once) the nonsense they're sprouting. 🤦♀️
What's more, they're pushing at the same time towards actively making their situation worse:
> the panel agreed to increase the upper limit on the fines, according to the draft report.
“protection” and “support” s'yeah. For their own wallets if anything; for sex workers' actual safety, that's not even lip service.
Wish instead of taking their judgements out of their arses, they took their head out first. 😮💨
For real, is it asking so much to simply LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when discussing laws about sex work..?
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Extra:
> Many members, meanwhile, took a cautious stance about expanding the definition of prostitution to include anal intercourse, arguing that public authorities should be careful about intervening in sexual activity, which is highly personal.
But if it's vaginal it's completely fine for authorities to intervene and ban it, right..?
What a bag of 💩.
And the draft itself is even worse… 😩
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117149781622837997
So, “expert” panel on sex work made of cis white accommodated men whose only knowledge about sex work is from the times they hired a whore..? (And which they'll all deny, so nominally: none whatsoever)
And TALKING WITH SEX WORKERS themselves or their associations (such as SWASH) is not even CONSIDERED..?
Great to know that an “expert panel” is not required to have two working neurons between all its members. 😮💨🤦♀️
For real, they actually have the galls to claim something like…
> Panel members also stressed the importance of providing sex workers with protection and support tailored to their respective circumstances, as needed.
… once more, while not even looking for sex worker input… 🙄 “tailored to their circumstances” the hell it is…
… and yet to STOP MAKING THEM CRIMINALS is judged unacceptable, for what's basically no reason whatsoever:
> However, a majority of members called for maintaining the [anti-prostitution] provisions, noting that scrapping them could send the wrong message
Sure, let's also prohibit giving food or money to the unhoused because not doing so could send the wrong message that vagrancy is tolerated. Or let's forbid giving people mental health support, least somebody assumed lunacy is tolerated. And let's of course sanction sex education, heavens forbid somebody could think that an ectopic pregnancy might require an abortion!
I seriously have a hard time believing these people have though twice (or once) the nonsense they're sprouting. 🤦♀️
What's more, they're pushing at the same time towards actively making their situation worse:
> the panel agreed to increase the upper limit on the fines, according to the draft report.
“protection” and “support” s'yeah. For their own wallets if anything; for sex workers' actual safety, that's not even lip service.
Wish instead of taking their judgements out of their arses, they took their head out first. 😮💨
For real, is it asking so much to simply LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when discussing laws about sex work..?
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Extra:
> Many members, meanwhile, took a cautious stance about expanding the definition of prostitution to include anal intercourse, arguing that public authorities should be careful about intervening in sexual activity, which is highly personal.
But if it's vaginal it's completely fine for authorities to intervene and ban it, right..?
What a bag of 💩.
And the draft itself is even worse… 😩
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117149781622837997
So, “expert” panel on sex work made of cis white accommodated men whose only knowledge about sex work is from the times they hired a whore..? (And which they'll all deny, so nominally: none whatsoever)
And TALKING WITH SEX WORKERS themselves or their associations (such as SWASH) is not even CONSIDERED..?
Great to know that an “expert panel” is not required to have two working neurons between all its members. 😮💨🤦♀️
For real, they actually have the galls to claim something like…
> Panel members also stressed the importance of providing sex workers with protection and support tailored to their respective circumstances, as needed.
… once more, while not even looking for sex worker input… 🙄 “tailored to their circumstances” the hell it is…
… and yet to STOP MAKING THEM CRIMINALS is judged unacceptable, for what's basically no reason whatsoever:
> However, a majority of members called for maintaining the [anti-prostitution] provisions, noting that scrapping them could send the wrong message
Sure, let's also prohibit giving food or money to the unhoused because not doing so could send the wrong message that vagrancy is tolerated. Or let's forbid giving people mental health support, least somebody assumed lunacy is tolerated. And let's of course sanction sex education, heavens forbid somebody could think that an ectopic pregnancy might require an abortion!
I seriously have a hard time believing these people have though twice (or once) the nonsense they're sprouting. 🤦♀️
What's more, they're pushing at the same time towards actively making their situation worse:
> the panel agreed to increase the upper limit on the fines, according to the draft report.
“protection” and “support” s'yeah. For their own wallets if anything; for sex workers' actual safety, that's not even lip service.
Wish instead of taking their judgements out of their arses, they took their head out first. 😮💨
For real, is it asking so much to simply LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when discussing laws about sex work..?
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Extra:
> Many members, meanwhile, took a cautious stance about expanding the definition of prostitution to include anal intercourse, arguing that public authorities should be careful about intervening in sexual activity, which is highly personal.
But if it's vaginal it's completely fine for authorities to intervene and ban it, right..?
What a bag of 💩.
And the draft itself is even worse… 😩
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117149781622837997
So, “expert” panel on sex work made of cis white accommodated men whose only knowledge about sex work is from the times they hired a whore..? (And which they'll all deny, so nominally: none whatsoever)
And TALKING WITH SEX WORKERS themselves or their associations (such as SWASH) is not even CONSIDERED..?
Great to know that an “expert panel” is not required to have two working neurons between all its members. 😮💨🤦♀️
For real, they actually have the galls to claim something like…
> Panel members also stressed the importance of providing sex workers with protection and support tailored to their respective circumstances, as needed.
… once more, while not even looking for sex worker input… 🙄 “tailored to their circumstances” the hell it is…
… and yet to STOP MAKING THEM CRIMINALS is judged unacceptable, for what's basically no reason whatsoever:
> However, a majority of members called for maintaining the [anti-prostitution] provisions, noting that scrapping them could send the wrong message
Sure, let's also prohibit giving food or money to the unhoused because not doing so could send the wrong message that vagrancy is tolerated. Or let's forbid giving people mental health support, least somebody assumed lunacy is tolerated. And let's of course sanction sex education, heavens forbid somebody could think that an ectopic pregnancy might require an abortion!
I seriously have a hard time believing these people have though twice (or once) the nonsense they're sprouting. 🤦♀️
What's more, they're pushing at the same time towards actively making their situation worse:
> the panel agreed to increase the upper limit on the fines, according to the draft report.
“protection” and “support” s'yeah. For their own wallets if anything; for sex workers' actual safety, that's not even lip service.
Wish instead of taking their judgements out of their arses, they took their head out first. 😮💨
For real, is it asking so much to simply LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when discussing laws about sex work..?
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Extra:
> Many members, meanwhile, took a cautious stance about expanding the definition of prostitution to include anal intercourse, arguing that public authorities should be careful about intervening in sexual activity, which is highly personal.
But if it's vaginal it's completely fine for authorities to intervene and ban it, right..?
What a bag of 💩.
And the draft itself is even worse… 😩
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117149781622837997
So, “expert” panel on sex work made of cis white accommodated men whose only knowledge about sex work is from the times they hired a whore..? (And which they'll all deny, so nominally: none whatsoever)
And TALKING WITH SEX WORKERS themselves or their associations (such as SWASH) is not even CONSIDERED..?
Great to know that an “expert panel” is not required to have two working neurons between all its members. 😮💨🤦♀️
For real, they actually have the galls to claim something like…
> Panel members also stressed the importance of providing sex workers with protection and support tailored to their respective circumstances, as needed.
… once more, while not even looking for sex worker input… 🙄 “tailored to their circumstances” the hell it is…
… and yet to STOP MAKING THEM CRIMINALS is judged unacceptable, for what's basically no reason whatsoever:
> However, a majority of members called for maintaining the [anti-prostitution] provisions, noting that scrapping them could send the wrong message
Sure, let's also prohibit giving food or money to the unhoused because not doing so could send the wrong message that vagrancy is tolerated. Or let's forbid giving people mental health support, least somebody assumed lunacy is tolerated. And let's of course sanction sex education, heavens forbid somebody could think that an ectopic pregnancy might require an abortion!
I seriously have a hard time believing these people have though twice (or once) the nonsense they're sprouting. 🤦♀️
What's more, they're pushing at the same time towards actively making their situation worse:
> the panel agreed to increase the upper limit on the fines, according to the draft report.
“protection” and “support” s'yeah. For their own wallets if anything; for sex workers' actual safety, that's not even lip service.
Wish instead of taking their judgements out of their arses, they took their head out first. 😮💨
For real, is it asking so much to simply LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when discussing laws about sex work..?
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Extra:
> Many members, meanwhile, took a cautious stance about expanding the definition of prostitution to include anal intercourse, arguing that public authorities should be careful about intervening in sexual activity, which is highly personal.
But if it's vaginal it's completely fine for authorities to intervene and ban it, right..?
What a bag of 💩.
And the draft itself is even worse… 😩
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CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/-
Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]-
PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
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CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/-
Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]-
PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
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CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/-
Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]-
PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
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CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/-
Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]-
PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
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CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/-
Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]-
PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117131968640614439
In case one wants something more official-sounding than [the quoted minirant] — here's SIN's* statement.
* SIN is South Australia's peer-led sex worker network.
#SexWork #SINSA #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia #Zonification #Discrimination #DecrimNow
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117131968640614439
In case one wants something more official-sounding than [the quoted minirant] — here's SIN's* statement.
* SIN is South Australia's peer-led sex worker network.
#SexWork #SINSA #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia #Zonification #Discrimination #DecrimNow
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117131968640614439
In case one wants something more official-sounding than [the quoted minirant] — here's SIN's* statement.
* SIN is South Australia's peer-led sex worker network.
#SexWork #SINSA #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia #Zonification #Discrimination #DecrimNow
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117131968640614439
In case one wants something more official-sounding than [the quoted minirant] — here's SIN's* statement.
* SIN is South Australia's peer-led sex worker network.
#SexWork #SINSA #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia #Zonification #Discrimination #DecrimNow
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117131968640614439
In case one wants something more official-sounding than [the quoted minirant] — here's SIN's* statement.
* SIN is South Australia's peer-led sex worker network.
#SexWork #SINSA #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia #Zonification #Discrimination #DecrimNow
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«Not Your Mama's Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Softer Side of Criminalization»
> What was once openly punitive is now framed as diversion, exit, or support. People are told they aren’t being punished - they’re being helped. But the help comes with conditions, and those conditions begin with arrest.
> The police still initiate the process. The courts still control the outcome.
> The assumption driving these systems is not subtle. It is the belief that people in the sex trade cannot be trusted to define their own needs, that safety must be coerced, and support only works when backed by punishment. Once this assumption is embedded in policy, autonomy is no longer possible.
> What disappears in these systems is not just flexibility, but real choice. Services are not offered freely. Under arrest-based “support” models, assistance is no longer something a person can opt into or out of; it becomes something they must earn through compliance.
> Genuine equality would treat sex work like every other form of labor affected by risk, stigma, and exploitation. It would mean access to services without arrest, healthcare without surveillance, job training without coercion, and the right to stay, leave, or transition on one’s own terms.
> Buyer criminalization and mandated exit programs do not offer equality. They offer control with better branding.
— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸
💯
#SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Criminalization #Decrim #DecrimNow
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«Not Your Mama's Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Softer Side of Criminalization»
> What was once openly punitive is now framed as diversion, exit, or support. People are told they aren’t being punished - they’re being helped. But the help comes with conditions, and those conditions begin with arrest.
> The police still initiate the process. The courts still control the outcome.
> The assumption driving these systems is not subtle. It is the belief that people in the sex trade cannot be trusted to define their own needs, that safety must be coerced, and support only works when backed by punishment. Once this assumption is embedded in policy, autonomy is no longer possible.
> What disappears in these systems is not just flexibility, but real choice. Services are not offered freely. Under arrest-based “support” models, assistance is no longer something a person can opt into or out of; it becomes something they must earn through compliance.
> Genuine equality would treat sex work like every other form of labor affected by risk, stigma, and exploitation. It would mean access to services without arrest, healthcare without surveillance, job training without coercion, and the right to stay, leave, or transition on one’s own terms.
> Buyer criminalization and mandated exit programs do not offer equality. They offer control with better branding.
— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸
💯
#SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Criminalization #Decrim #DecrimNow
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«Not Your Mama's Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Softer Side of Criminalization»
> What was once openly punitive is now framed as diversion, exit, or support. People are told they aren’t being punished - they’re being helped. But the help comes with conditions, and those conditions begin with arrest.
> The police still initiate the process. The courts still control the outcome.
> The assumption driving these systems is not subtle. It is the belief that people in the sex trade cannot be trusted to define their own needs, that safety must be coerced, and support only works when backed by punishment. Once this assumption is embedded in policy, autonomy is no longer possible.
> What disappears in these systems is not just flexibility, but real choice. Services are not offered freely. Under arrest-based “support” models, assistance is no longer something a person can opt into or out of; it becomes something they must earn through compliance.
> Genuine equality would treat sex work like every other form of labor affected by risk, stigma, and exploitation. It would mean access to services without arrest, healthcare without surveillance, job training without coercion, and the right to stay, leave, or transition on one’s own terms.
> Buyer criminalization and mandated exit programs do not offer equality. They offer control with better branding.
— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸
💯
#SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Criminalization #Decrim #DecrimNow
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«Not Your Mama's Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Softer Side of Criminalization»
> What was once openly punitive is now framed as diversion, exit, or support. People are told they aren’t being punished - they’re being helped. But the help comes with conditions, and those conditions begin with arrest.
> The police still initiate the process. The courts still control the outcome.
> The assumption driving these systems is not subtle. It is the belief that people in the sex trade cannot be trusted to define their own needs, that safety must be coerced, and support only works when backed by punishment. Once this assumption is embedded in policy, autonomy is no longer possible.
> What disappears in these systems is not just flexibility, but real choice. Services are not offered freely. Under arrest-based “support” models, assistance is no longer something a person can opt into or out of; it becomes something they must earn through compliance.
> Genuine equality would treat sex work like every other form of labor affected by risk, stigma, and exploitation. It would mean access to services without arrest, healthcare without surveillance, job training without coercion, and the right to stay, leave, or transition on one’s own terms.
> Buyer criminalization and mandated exit programs do not offer equality. They offer control with better branding.
— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸
💯
#SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Criminalization #Decrim #DecrimNow
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«Not Your Mama's Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Softer Side of Criminalization»
> What was once openly punitive is now framed as diversion, exit, or support. People are told they aren’t being punished - they’re being helped. But the help comes with conditions, and those conditions begin with arrest.
> The police still initiate the process. The courts still control the outcome.
> The assumption driving these systems is not subtle. It is the belief that people in the sex trade cannot be trusted to define their own needs, that safety must be coerced, and support only works when backed by punishment. Once this assumption is embedded in policy, autonomy is no longer possible.
> What disappears in these systems is not just flexibility, but real choice. Services are not offered freely. Under arrest-based “support” models, assistance is no longer something a person can opt into or out of; it becomes something they must earn through compliance.
> Genuine equality would treat sex work like every other form of labor affected by risk, stigma, and exploitation. It would mean access to services without arrest, healthcare without surveillance, job training without coercion, and the right to stay, leave, or transition on one’s own terms.
> Buyer criminalization and mandated exit programs do not offer equality. They offer control with better branding.
— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸
💯
#SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Criminalization #Decrim #DecrimNow
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National Ugly Mugs is looking for sex worker artists and writers~
Interested? Contact:
📧 [email protected]👠📝🎨🇬🇧🇮🇪
> Are you a writer or visual artist with lived experience of the adult industry? Do you have a piece you want to submit to Under the Red Umbrella zine?
> Please get in touch with us and tell us a bit about your work, we would love to feature (and pay!) you. All are welcome! 🌟
#NUM #SexWork #ArtistCallOut #DecrimNow #UK #Ireland #NationalUglyMugs
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National Ugly Mugs is looking for sex worker artists and writers~
Interested? Contact:
📧 [email protected]👠📝🎨🇬🇧🇮🇪
> Are you a writer or visual artist with lived experience of the adult industry? Do you have a piece you want to submit to Under the Red Umbrella zine?
> Please get in touch with us and tell us a bit about your work, we would love to feature (and pay!) you. All are welcome! 🌟
#NUM #SexWork #ArtistCallOut #DecrimNow #UK #Ireland #NationalUglyMugs
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National Ugly Mugs is looking for sex worker artists and writers~
Interested? Contact:
📧 [email protected]👠📝🎨🇬🇧🇮🇪
> Are you a writer or visual artist with lived experience of the adult industry? Do you have a piece you want to submit to Under the Red Umbrella zine?
> Please get in touch with us and tell us a bit about your work, we would love to feature (and pay!) you. All are welcome! 🌟
#NUM #SexWork #ArtistCallOut #DecrimNow #UK #Ireland #NationalUglyMugs
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National Ugly Mugs is looking for sex worker artists and writers~
Interested? Contact:
📧 [email protected]👠📝🎨🇬🇧🇮🇪
> Are you a writer or visual artist with lived experience of the adult industry? Do you have a piece you want to submit to Under the Red Umbrella zine?
> Please get in touch with us and tell us a bit about your work, we would love to feature (and pay!) you. All are welcome! 🌟
#NUM #SexWork #ArtistCallOut #DecrimNow #UK #Ireland #NationalUglyMugs
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National Ugly Mugs is looking for sex worker artists and writers~
Interested? Contact:
📧 [email protected]👠📝🎨🇬🇧🇮🇪
> Are you a writer or visual artist with lived experience of the adult industry? Do you have a piece you want to submit to Under the Red Umbrella zine?
> Please get in touch with us and tell us a bit about your work, we would love to feature (and pay!) you. All are welcome! 🌟
#NUM #SexWork #ArtistCallOut #DecrimNow #UK #Ireland #NationalUglyMugs
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Damn; did I really forget to share this..?
«Call to action: Endorse the statement on joint concern regarding the proposed amendment to Article 487 in Lithuania»
📄 Full statement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JWTrul7yKYIJzP5zbrwmsUCqnQyEr1lS/view
🖋️ Signatures: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mST_pdQGPlxicKDEp73pc2J4EmPmCUB-nLiCoHfAsWY/view
> SWAN and the Association “Soma Teisės” are collecting organizational and individual endorsements in response to the proposed amendment to Article 487 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Lithuania, which would significantly increase fines for the paid use of sexual services while keeping sex workers punishable.
> We are concerned that the proposal does not provide real protection for sex workers or people in vulnerable situations. Instead, it risks increasing stigma, policing, and unsafe working conditions, while failing to introduce concrete measures such as access to health care, legal aid, housing support, safe reporting mechanisms, social protection, or protection from violence and exploitation.
Punishment is not protection!
#SexWork #SomaTeisės #Lithuania #SWAN #DecrimNow #Signatures
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Damn; did I really forget to share this..?
«Call to action: Endorse the statement on joint concern regarding the proposed amendment to Article 487 in Lithuania»
📄 Full statement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JWTrul7yKYIJzP5zbrwmsUCqnQyEr1lS/view
🖋️ Signatures: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mST_pdQGPlxicKDEp73pc2J4EmPmCUB-nLiCoHfAsWY/view
> SWAN and the Association “Soma Teisės” are collecting organizational and individual endorsements in response to the proposed amendment to Article 487 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Lithuania, which would significantly increase fines for the paid use of sexual services while keeping sex workers punishable.
> We are concerned that the proposal does not provide real protection for sex workers or people in vulnerable situations. Instead, it risks increasing stigma, policing, and unsafe working conditions, while failing to introduce concrete measures such as access to health care, legal aid, housing support, safe reporting mechanisms, social protection, or protection from violence and exploitation.
Punishment is not protection!
#SexWork #SomaTeisės #Lithuania #SWAN #DecrimNow #Signatures
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> SWAN's office is temporarily closed during the FIFA World Cup due to a heavy police presence and surveillance in the downtown core, and the increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation of im/migrant sex workers.
🇨🇦👠📰 https://swanvancouver.ca/office-closed/
Sigh. When the “““safety””” measures to “““combat trafficking””” and “““protect women””” lead to organizations ACTUALLY providing safe and effective support to precarious, marginalized (and even up to actually trafficked) women HAVING TO CLOSE… 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Clearly something ain't working right.
Sure isn't for the lack of warnings however. “Maybe” it's actually working just as intended after all… 😮💨Does anyone seriously believe half a word of the official pitches, anyway..? They keep getting more and more shameful by the day.
#DecrimNow, dangit!
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> SWAN's office is temporarily closed during the FIFA World Cup due to a heavy police presence and surveillance in the downtown core, and the increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation of im/migrant sex workers.
🇨🇦👠📰 https://swanvancouver.ca/office-closed/
Sigh. When the “““safety””” measures to “““combat trafficking””” and “““protect women””” lead to organizations ACTUALLY providing safe and effective support to precarious, marginalized (and even up to actually trafficked) women HAVING TO CLOSE… 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Clearly something ain't working right.
Sure isn't for the lack of warnings however. “Maybe” it's actually working just as intended after all… 😮💨Does anyone seriously believe half a word of the official pitches, anyway..? They keep getting more and more shameful by the day.
#DecrimNow, dangit!
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> SWAN's office is temporarily closed during the FIFA World Cup due to a heavy police presence and surveillance in the downtown core, and the increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation of im/migrant sex workers.
🇨🇦👠📰 https://swanvancouver.ca/office-closed/
Sigh. When the “““safety””” measures to “““combat trafficking””” and “““protect women””” lead to organizations ACTUALLY providing safe and effective support to precarious, marginalized (and even up to actually trafficked) women HAVING TO CLOSE… 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Clearly something ain't working right.
Sure isn't for the lack of warnings however. “Maybe” it's actually working just as intended after all… 😮💨Does anyone seriously believe half a word of the official pitches, anyway..? They keep getting more and more shameful by the day.
#DecrimNow, dangit!
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> SWAN's office is temporarily closed during the FIFA World Cup due to a heavy police presence and surveillance in the downtown core, and the increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation of im/migrant sex workers.
🇨🇦👠📰 https://swanvancouver.ca/office-closed/
Sigh. When the “““safety””” measures to “““combat trafficking””” and “““protect women””” lead to organizations ACTUALLY providing safe and effective support to precarious, marginalized (and even up to actually trafficked) women HAVING TO CLOSE… 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Clearly something ain't working right.
Sure isn't for the lack of warnings however. “Maybe” it's actually working just as intended after all… 😮💨Does anyone seriously believe half a word of the official pitches, anyway..? They keep getting more and more shameful by the day.
#DecrimNow, dangit!
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> SWAN's office is temporarily closed during the FIFA World Cup due to a heavy police presence and surveillance in the downtown core, and the increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation of im/migrant sex workers.
🇨🇦👠📰 https://swanvancouver.ca/office-closed/
Sigh. When the “““safety””” measures to “““combat trafficking””” and “““protect women””” lead to organizations ACTUALLY providing safe and effective support to precarious, marginalized (and even up to actually trafficked) women HAVING TO CLOSE… 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Clearly something ain't working right.
Sure isn't for the lack of warnings however. “Maybe” it's actually working just as intended after all… 😮💨Does anyone seriously believe half a word of the official pitches, anyway..? They keep getting more and more shameful by the day.
#DecrimNow, dangit!
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#nsfw #sw #sexwork #sexworkiswork #decrimnow Decriminalized sex work is safer than marriage.
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📕 «Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology»
👤 Editor: Jack Parker
🗓️ September 2024
🆔 ISBN: 978-17-38495-54-2
🌐 https://workingguys.carrd.co
🛒 Paperback: https://mxjackparker.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-paperback-of-working-guys-a-transmasculine-sex-worker-anthology
🛒 Ebook: https://jackparker.gumroad.com/l/workingguys> While we are slowly seeing more accounts about the experiences of sex workers being shared, there are large gaps in the representation.
> Working Guys is a collection of essays, personal narratives and interviews about the lives of transmasculine sex workers, in our own words. Joyful, traumatic, or somewhere in between, this book preserves nuance and highlights a range of experiences. From selling sex under a female persona to taking advantage of the rise in popularity of trans men in porn, the pieces within provide a snapshot of moments in various transmasculine sex workers' lives.
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🏳️⚧️ We're still pretty close to Trans Day of Visibility.
☂️ And it's “Sex Work Book Friday” or something [yes, I've made that up, but I intend to keep it going].
🌟 So, this book is a PERFECT match. 💖❤️🔥Trans people don't get their voices heard often enough.
That usually goes double for trans men.
Sex workers have as much or worse troubles themselves.So it readily raises the question… What happens with transmasculine sex workers..?
“Wait, is there such a thing.?!”
Oh, yes there is!
Unsurprisingly though, they're on the deep end of the “ignored” spectrum, as their mere existence tends to make EVERY take on sex work from EVERY side shake pretty badly…
So yeah, one doesn't heard much about them.I'm not gonna spoil you the fun. ^~
The book is exactly what is says on the tin — and its value ought to be more than self-evident.
Plus, it's really just 5£ (.epub), and waaay better than any beer you might buy instead. ;P#SWBooks #SexWork #Anthology #Trans #TransMen #TransMasc #Book #Books #Bookstodon #September2024
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Report launch: «Sex Workers Navigating Gendered Poverty»
🗓 Monday 30th March
💻 Online 🕓 13:00–14:30 UTC
✍️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decrim-now-report-launch-sex-workers-navigating-gendered-poverty-tickets-1983265489467> Next Monday 30th March, 2-3.30pm, we’ll be hosting an online event to discuss the findings of our autumn 2025 research report on why people go into sex work and remain in it, and what they’d like the government to do to support them.
> We’ll be joined for a panel discussion by colleagues from the English Collective of Prostitutes, National Ugly Mugs, BASIS Yorkshire and Amnesty International UK. We’re looking forward to discussing the current situation for sex workers’ rights in the UK, as well as how the cost of living crisis could be contributing to driving more people, especially women, into sex work.
— 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/decrimnow.bsky.social/post/3mhsr5uoqfk2h
❤️🔥🤩❤️🔥
#SexWork #DecrimNow #UK #Precarity #Poverty #ECP #NUM #BASIS #AmnestyInternational #Online #2026W14
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Report launch: «Sex Workers Navigating Gendered Poverty»
🗓 Monday 30th March
💻 Online 🕓 13:00–14:30 UTC
✍️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decrim-now-report-launch-sex-workers-navigating-gendered-poverty-tickets-1983265489467> Next Monday 30th March, 2-3.30pm, we’ll be hosting an online event to discuss the findings of our autumn 2025 research report on why people go into sex work and remain in it, and what they’d like the government to do to support them.
> We’ll be joined for a panel discussion by colleagues from the English Collective of Prostitutes, National Ugly Mugs, BASIS Yorkshire and Amnesty International UK. We’re looking forward to discussing the current situation for sex workers’ rights in the UK, as well as how the cost of living crisis could be contributing to driving more people, especially women, into sex work.
— 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/decrimnow.bsky.social/post/3mhsr5uoqfk2h
❤️🔥🤩❤️🔥
#SexWork #DecrimNow #UK #Precarity #Poverty #ECP #NUM #BASIS #AmnestyInternational #Online #2026W14
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Report launch: «Sex Workers Navigating Gendered Poverty»
🗓 Monday 30th March
💻 Online 🕓 13:00–14:30 UTC
✍️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decrim-now-report-launch-sex-workers-navigating-gendered-poverty-tickets-1983265489467> Next Monday 30th March, 2-3.30pm, we’ll be hosting an online event to discuss the findings of our autumn 2025 research report on why people go into sex work and remain in it, and what they’d like the government to do to support them.
> We’ll be joined for a panel discussion by colleagues from the English Collective of Prostitutes, National Ugly Mugs, BASIS Yorkshire and Amnesty International UK. We’re looking forward to discussing the current situation for sex workers’ rights in the UK, as well as how the cost of living crisis could be contributing to driving more people, especially women, into sex work.
— 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/decrimnow.bsky.social/post/3mhsr5uoqfk2h
❤️🔥🤩❤️🔥
#SexWork #DecrimNow #UK #Precarity #Poverty #ECP #NUM #BASIS #AmnestyInternational #Online #2026W14
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Report launch: «Sex Workers Navigating Gendered Poverty»
🗓 Monday 30th March
💻 Online 🕓 13:00–14:30 UTC
✍️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decrim-now-report-launch-sex-workers-navigating-gendered-poverty-tickets-1983265489467> Next Monday 30th March, 2-3.30pm, we’ll be hosting an online event to discuss the findings of our autumn 2025 research report on why people go into sex work and remain in it, and what they’d like the government to do to support them.
> We’ll be joined for a panel discussion by colleagues from the English Collective of Prostitutes, National Ugly Mugs, BASIS Yorkshire and Amnesty International UK. We’re looking forward to discussing the current situation for sex workers’ rights in the UK, as well as how the cost of living crisis could be contributing to driving more people, especially women, into sex work.
— 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/decrimnow.bsky.social/post/3mhsr5uoqfk2h
❤️🔥🤩❤️🔥
#SexWork #DecrimNow #UK #Precarity #Poverty #ECP #NUM #BASIS #AmnestyInternational #Online #2026W14
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Report launch: «Sex Workers Navigating Gendered Poverty»
🗓 Monday 30th March
💻 Online 🕓 13:00–14:30 UTC
✍️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decrim-now-report-launch-sex-workers-navigating-gendered-poverty-tickets-1983265489467> Next Monday 30th March, 2-3.30pm, we’ll be hosting an online event to discuss the findings of our autumn 2025 research report on why people go into sex work and remain in it, and what they’d like the government to do to support them.
> We’ll be joined for a panel discussion by colleagues from the English Collective of Prostitutes, National Ugly Mugs, BASIS Yorkshire and Amnesty International UK. We’re looking forward to discussing the current situation for sex workers’ rights in the UK, as well as how the cost of living crisis could be contributing to driving more people, especially women, into sex work.
— 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/decrimnow.bsky.social/post/3mhsr5uoqfk2h
❤️🔥🤩❤️🔥
#SexWork #DecrimNow #UK #Precarity #Poverty #ECP #NUM #BASIS #AmnestyInternational #Online #2026W14
