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Do you know the Decolonial Sex Worker Justice Empowerment Project (🇺🇸 USA, CT)?
Sharing their re-introduction~
https://bsky.app/profile/dswjeproject.bsky.social/post/3mtsnx7lcus2a
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Do you know the Decolonial Sex Worker Justice Empowerment Project (🇺🇸 USA, CT)?
Sharing their re-introduction~
https://bsky.app/profile/dswjeproject.bsky.social/post/3mtsnx7lcus2a
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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) 🇬🇧
-
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) 🇬🇧
-
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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You get a lot of notifications.
How do you know if you're actually special to someone, or if they just interact a lot with everyone?
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You get a lot of notifications.
How do you know if you're actually special to someone, or if they just interact a lot with everyone?
... We'll show you. 😉 -
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
https://badrrfilmfree.blogspot.com/p/watch-full-video-tap-picture.html -
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
https://badrrfilmfree.blogspot.com/p/watch-full-video-tap-picture.html -
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
https://badrrfilmfree.blogspot.com/p/watch-full-video-tap-picture.html -
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
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#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
https://badrrfilmfree.blogspot.com/p/watch-full-video-tap-picture.html -
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
-
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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Wenn #RTL ausgewogener und besser informiert berichtet als #DieAnstalt, dann läuft was schief im #ÖRR.
Vergleiche:
Dagegen beim #ZDF:
Dann braucht man sich über #AliceWeidel auch nicht mehr zu wundern 🤢
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Wenn #RTL ausgewogener und besser informiert berichtet als #DieAnstalt, dann läuft was schief im #ÖRR.
Vergleiche:
Dagegen beim #ZDF:
Dann braucht man sich über #AliceWeidel auch nicht mehr zu wundern 🤢
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RE: https://todon.nl/@SWdigitaal/117126571023673618
Short version: what the title says (don't police sex work without including sex workers)
-
Less short (+ comments) version: moral panics about trafficking are once more used to call for surveillance of sex workers.
[The (my) comments:]
Despite the fact that such measures have never once worked, that they over and over have shown themselves to be harmful both for sex workers and for trafficking victims, that traffickers and exploiters laugh at them because they actually take attention away from them (and onto sex workers), that such surveillance really is a core part of stigma, that…
And yeah, without even thinking about consulting those affected and with actual knowledge about the relevant issues. 🤦♀️
One would think that at this point in history it ought to be blatantly obvious that "More surveillance! Moar!!1!" rhetorics only ever benefit hostile agents¹ and directly harm everyone else, including and specially those claimed to be “protected” by it…
But of course, since it's on sex workers no one will care about any harms. Once again. Then act surprised when it's expanded for everybody else as well. 😮💨
(¹ Tbh maybe it's well about time to add "governments" to the "hostile agent" list, but that's a discussion for another time… even if an overdue one.)
It's particularly nonsensical when they're next to a country which did implement a much weaker form of registration and surveillance than what they're discussing now, and it failed horribly. As expected and warned. :/
And of course also exclusive to sex work. Whenever trafficking cases are uncovered in other sectors, nothing of this sort is ever brought up… 🙄
(And thanks, because it wouldn't help there either. But the division makes pretty clear that what this really is, is just another attempt to control sex workers.)-
Somewhat longer version… and less ranty… that's the article. ;3
Go read it!
Yes, this one is worth it. ^^ -
RE: https://todon.nl/@SWdigitaal/117126571023673618
Short version: what the title says (don't police sex work without including sex workers)
-
Less short (+ comments) version: moral panics about trafficking are once more used to call for surveillance of sex workers.
[The (my) comments:]
Despite the fact that such measures have never once worked, that they over and over have shown themselves to be harmful both for sex workers and for trafficking victims, that traffickers and exploiters laugh at them because they actually take attention away from them (and onto sex workers), that such surveillance really is a core part of stigma, that…
And yeah, without even thinking about consulting those affected and with actual knowledge about the relevant issues. 🤦♀️
One would think that at this point in history it ought to be blatantly obvious that "More surveillance! Moar!!1!" rhetorics only ever benefit hostile agents¹ and directly harm everyone else, including and specially those claimed to be “protected” by it…
But of course, since it's on sex workers no one will care about any harms. Once again. Then act surprised when it's expanded for everybody else as well. 😮💨
(¹ Tbh maybe it's well about time to add "governments" to the "hostile agent" list, but that's a discussion for another time… even if an overdue one.)
It's particularly nonsensical when they're next to a country which did implement a much weaker form of registration and surveillance than what they're discussing now, and it failed horribly. As expected and warned. :/
And of course also exclusive to sex work. Whenever trafficking cases are uncovered in other sectors, nothing of this sort is ever brought up… 🙄
(And thanks, because it wouldn't help there either. But the division makes pretty clear that what this really is, is just another attempt to control sex workers.)-
Somewhat longer version… and less ranty… that's the article. ;3
Go read it!
Yes, this one is worth it. ^^ -
RE: https://todon.nl/@SWdigitaal/117126571023673618
Short version: what the title says (don't police sex work without including sex workers)
-
Less short (+ comments) version: moral panics about trafficking are once more used to call for surveillance of sex workers.
[The (my) comments:]
Despite the fact that such measures have never once worked, that they over and over have shown themselves to be harmful both for sex workers and for trafficking victims, that traffickers and exploiters laugh at them because they actually take attention away from them (and onto sex workers), that such surveillance really is a core part of stigma, that…
And yeah, without even thinking about consulting those affected and with actual knowledge about the relevant issues. 🤦♀️
One would think that at this point in history it ought to be blatantly obvious that "More surveillance! Moar!!1!" rhetorics only ever benefit hostile agents¹ and directly harm everyone else, including and specially those claimed to be “protected” by it…
But of course, since it's on sex workers no one will care about any harms. Once again. Then act surprised when it's expanded for everybody else as well. 😮💨
(¹ Tbh maybe it's well about time to add "governments" to the "hostile agent" list, but that's a discussion for another time… even if an overdue one.)
It's particularly nonsensical when they're next to a country which did implement a much weaker form of registration and surveillance than what they're discussing now, and it failed horribly. As expected and warned. :/
And of course also exclusive to sex work. Whenever trafficking cases are uncovered in other sectors, nothing of this sort is ever brought up… 🙄
(And thanks, because it wouldn't help there either. But the division makes pretty clear that what this really is, is just another attempt to control sex workers.)-
Somewhat longer version… and less ranty… that's the article. ;3
Go read it!
Yes, this one is worth it. ^^ -
RE: https://todon.nl/@SWdigitaal/117126571023673618
Short version: what the title says (don't police sex work without including sex workers)
-
Less short (+ comments) version: moral panics about trafficking are once more used to call for surveillance of sex workers.
[The (my) comments:]
Despite the fact that such measures have never once worked, that they over and over have shown themselves to be harmful both for sex workers and for trafficking victims, that traffickers and exploiters laugh at them because they actually take attention away from them (and onto sex workers), that such surveillance really is a core part of stigma, that…
And yeah, without even thinking about consulting those affected and with actual knowledge about the relevant issues. 🤦♀️
One would think that at this point in history it ought to be blatantly obvious that "More surveillance! Moar!!1!" rhetorics only ever benefit hostile agents¹ and directly harm everyone else, including and specially those claimed to be “protected” by it…
But of course, since it's on sex workers no one will care about any harms. Once again. Then act surprised when it's expanded for everybody else as well. 😮💨
(¹ Tbh maybe it's well about time to add "governments" to the "hostile agent" list, but that's a discussion for another time… even if an overdue one.)
It's particularly nonsensical when they're next to a country which did implement a much weaker form of registration and surveillance than what they're discussing now, and it failed horribly. As expected and warned. :/
And of course also exclusive to sex work. Whenever trafficking cases are uncovered in other sectors, nothing of this sort is ever brought up… 🙄
(And thanks, because it wouldn't help there either. But the division makes pretty clear that what this really is, is just another attempt to control sex workers.)-
Somewhat longer version… and less ranty… that's the article. ;3
Go read it!
Yes, this one is worth it. ^^ -
«Scarlet Alliance's National Forum 2026»
🗓 17–19 November 2026
📍 Adelaide {details later} 🇦🇺
➕💻 Online attendance possible
✍️ Registration: https://form.jotform.com/Scarlet_Alliance/national-forum-registration
🎯 Sex workers only! 👠> It's time to register for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum! It's open and free to all sex workers and it's a fantastic way to connect with peers and find out about the issues that are important to us.
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TL;DR: South Australia pushes forward sex work zonification.
Beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. No way this bites anyone's arse, nope. Certainly not the workers'. All completely fine. It's not like measures of this sort have probed themselves constantly harmful ('cept for the business getting a free monopoly), not at all.
😮💨-
> Existing venues in the exclusion zones will not be impacted by the new rules
Gee, I wonder who might actually be profiting from this change. Utter mystery. No way one could guess.
The fact that historically zonification has almost always been pushed for and enforced by existing brothels to ensure monopoly (and free exploitation) is a complete coincidence, nothing whatsoever to do with this.
🤡
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> Mr Champion said these new changes would protect certain areas of the CBD from "what might be collectively known as strip joints and sex shops".
The fuck is this ****..?
Yeah, sure, protect people's delicate sensibilities from seeing a dildo or a nipple if they “accidentally” wander into a shop clearly labelled "SEX THINGS HERE" in neon letters, least they be traumatized for life…Much better the still completely allowed liquor, tobacco or betting joints, no doubt. 🙄
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> "These should be the places people want to live and visit and frequent and we want them to have a particular civic character, a strong civic character."
> "As more and more people move into the city, we want to give them certainty that the areas that they're moving into align with their expectation and continue to in the future."
In other words, “we find sex workers icky and want them away”. Goddamn these- 🤬
-
> "No-one's making moral judgements about it, you know we live in a free society, and people are free to make their own choices."
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
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«Scarlet Alliance's National Forum 2026»
🗓 17–19 November 2026
📍 Adelaide {details later} 🇦🇺
➕💻 Online attendance possible
✍️ Registration: https://form.jotform.com/Scarlet_Alliance/national-forum-registration
🎯 Sex workers only! 👠> It's time to register for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum! It's open and free to all sex workers and it's a fantastic way to connect with peers and find out about the issues that are important to us.
-
TL;DR: South Australia pushes forward sex work zonification.
Beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. No way this bites anyone's arse, nope. Certainly not the workers'. All completely fine. It's not like measures of this sort have probed themselves constantly harmful ('cept for the business getting a free monopoly), not at all.
😮💨-
> Existing venues in the exclusion zones will not be impacted by the new rules
Gee, I wonder who might actually be profiting from this change. Utter mystery. No way one could guess.
The fact that historically zonification has almost always been pushed for and enforced by existing brothels to ensure monopoly (and free exploitation) is a complete coincidence, nothing whatsoever to do with this.
🤡
-
> Mr Champion said these new changes would protect certain areas of the CBD from "what might be collectively known as strip joints and sex shops".
The fuck is this ****..?
Yeah, sure, protect people's delicate sensibilities from seeing a dildo or a nipple if they “accidentally” wander into a shop clearly labelled "SEX THINGS HERE" in neon letters, least they be traumatized for life…Much better the still completely allowed liquor, tobacco or betting joints, no doubt. 🙄
-
> "These should be the places people want to live and visit and frequent and we want them to have a particular civic character, a strong civic character."
> "As more and more people move into the city, we want to give them certainty that the areas that they're moving into align with their expectation and continue to in the future."
In other words, “we find sex workers icky and want them away”. Goddamn these- 🤬
-
> "No-one's making moral judgements about it, you know we live in a free society, and people are free to make their own choices."
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
-
TL;DR: South Australia pushes forward sex work zonification.
Beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. No way this bites anyone's arse, nope. Certainly not the workers'. All completely fine. It's not like measures of this sort have probed themselves constantly harmful ('cept for the business getting a free monopoly), not at all.
😮💨-
> Existing venues in the exclusion zones will not be impacted by the new rules
Gee, I wonder who might actually be profiting from this change. Utter mystery. No way one could guess.
The fact that historically zonification has almost always been pushed for and enforced by existing brothels to ensure monopoly (and free exploitation) is a complete coincidence, nothing whatsoever to do with this.
🤡
-
> Mr Champion said these new changes would protect certain areas of the CBD from "what might be collectively known as strip joints and sex shops".
The fuck is this ****..?
Yeah, sure, protect people's delicate sensibilities from seeing a dildo or a nipple if they “accidentally” wander into a shop clearly labelled "SEX THINGS HERE" in neon letters, least they be traumatized for life…Much better the still completely allowed liquor, tobacco or betting joints, no doubt. 🙄
-
> "These should be the places people want to live and visit and frequent and we want them to have a particular civic character, a strong civic character."
> "As more and more people move into the city, we want to give them certainty that the areas that they're moving into align with their expectation and continue to in the future."
In other words, “we find sex workers icky and want them away”. Goddamn these- 🤬
-
> "No-one's making moral judgements about it, you know we live in a free society, and people are free to make their own choices."
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
-
«Scarlet Alliance's National Forum 2026»
🗓 17–19 November 2026
📍 Adelaide {details later} 🇦🇺
➕💻 Online attendance possible
✍️ Registration: https://form.jotform.com/Scarlet_Alliance/national-forum-registration
🎯 Sex workers only! 👠> It's time to register for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum! It's open and free to all sex workers and it's a fantastic way to connect with peers and find out about the issues that are important to us.
-
«Scarlet Alliance's National Forum 2026»
🗓 17–19 November 2026
📍 Adelaide {details later} 🇦🇺
➕💻 Online attendance possible
✍️ Registration: https://form.jotform.com/Scarlet_Alliance/national-forum-registration
🎯 Sex workers only! 👠> It's time to register for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum! It's open and free to all sex workers and it's a fantastic way to connect with peers and find out about the issues that are important to us.
-
TL;DR: South Australia pushes forward sex work zonification.
Beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. No way this bites anyone's arse, nope. Certainly not the workers'. All completely fine. It's not like measures of this sort have probed themselves constantly harmful ('cept for the business getting a free monopoly), not at all.
😮💨-
> Existing venues in the exclusion zones will not be impacted by the new rules
Gee, I wonder who might actually be profiting from this change. Utter mystery. No way one could guess.
The fact that historically zonification has almost always been pushed for and enforced by existing brothels to ensure monopoly (and free exploitation) is a complete coincidence, nothing whatsoever to do with this.
🤡
-
> Mr Champion said these new changes would protect certain areas of the CBD from "what might be collectively known as strip joints and sex shops".
The fuck is this ****..?
Yeah, sure, protect people's delicate sensibilities from seeing a dildo or a nipple if they “accidentally” wander into a shop clearly labelled "SEX THINGS HERE" in neon letters, least they be traumatized for life…Much better the still completely allowed liquor, tobacco or betting joints, no doubt. 🙄
-
> "These should be the places people want to live and visit and frequent and we want them to have a particular civic character, a strong civic character."
> "As more and more people move into the city, we want to give them certainty that the areas that they're moving into align with their expectation and continue to in the future."
In other words, “we find sex workers icky and want them away”. Goddamn these- 🤬
-
> "No-one's making moral judgements about it, you know we live in a free society, and people are free to make their own choices."
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
-
«Scarlet Alliance's National Forum 2026»
🗓 17–19 November 2026
📍 Adelaide {details later} 🇦🇺
➕💻 Online attendance possible
✍️ Registration: https://form.jotform.com/Scarlet_Alliance/national-forum-registration
🎯 Sex workers only! 👠> It's time to register for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum! It's open and free to all sex workers and it's a fantastic way to connect with peers and find out about the issues that are important to us.
-
TL;DR: South Australia pushes forward sex work zonification.
Beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. No way this bites anyone's arse, nope. Certainly not the workers'. All completely fine. It's not like measures of this sort have probed themselves constantly harmful ('cept for the business getting a free monopoly), not at all.
😮💨-
> Existing venues in the exclusion zones will not be impacted by the new rules
Gee, I wonder who might actually be profiting from this change. Utter mystery. No way one could guess.
The fact that historically zonification has almost always been pushed for and enforced by existing brothels to ensure monopoly (and free exploitation) is a complete coincidence, nothing whatsoever to do with this.
🤡
-
> Mr Champion said these new changes would protect certain areas of the CBD from "what might be collectively known as strip joints and sex shops".
The fuck is this ****..?
Yeah, sure, protect people's delicate sensibilities from seeing a dildo or a nipple if they “accidentally” wander into a shop clearly labelled "SEX THINGS HERE" in neon letters, least they be traumatized for life…Much better the still completely allowed liquor, tobacco or betting joints, no doubt. 🙄
-
> "These should be the places people want to live and visit and frequent and we want them to have a particular civic character, a strong civic character."
> "As more and more people move into the city, we want to give them certainty that the areas that they're moving into align with their expectation and continue to in the future."
In other words, “we find sex workers icky and want them away”. Goddamn these- 🤬
-
> "No-one's making moral judgements about it, you know we live in a free society, and people are free to make their own choices."
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
-
#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
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«Hard Labour»
🗓️ 21st – 23rd August 2026
🏙️ Glasgow 🏴
📍 Transmission Gallery
(28 King Street)
✍️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/hard-labour-4856533
ℹ️ All information: https://arika.org.uk/hard-labour/> All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!
> Featuring workshops, talks and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work, how it affects us and how we resist it.
> Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. We’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.
> Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of our long history of sex worker resistance, the flame of our current struggles to the warmth of our future dreams.
> Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a welcome to make art.
> Partnering with Arika and Transmission our weekend of events invites you into a glimpse of our imagined futures, creating time in the now where we can truly exist.
‣ Programme:
🗓️ Friday 21st
• «Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion»
🕑 14:00–17:00 👥 NUM
• «Drinks and Nibbles»
🕔 17:00–18:30
• «How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution»
🕡 18:30–19:45
👤 Chaoying Rao 👤 Madi Awadalla🗓 Saturday 22nd
• «Sex Worker Breakfast»
🕥 10:30–12:30
🎯 Sex workers only (obviously)
• «Tell Me About It»
🕜 14:30–17:30
👥 The Human Library
• «Queer Sex Worker Shorts»
🕗 20:00–21:30
👥 Carnal Productions🗓 Sunday 22nd
• «Coffee, Croissants and Massage»
🕚 11:00–12:00
👥 Five Rivers Massage
• «Stripper Life Drawing»
🕛 12:00–14:00
👥 East London Stripper Collective
• «Resistance Renewed: Art / Sex / Work / Activism»
🕜 14:30–16:30
👤 Chaoying Rao
• «Badgemaking Workshop»
🕞 15:30–17:30
👤 Hank Ahmad “Green Bananas”RE: https://rss-parrot.net/u/nationaluglymugs.org/status/1787112208003556814
#SexWork #Scotland4Decrim #Glasgow #Scotland #UK #NationalUglyMugs #NUMbrellaLane #EastLondonStripperCollective #SWEvents #History #2026W34
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«Hard Labour»
🗓️ 21st – 23rd August 2026
🏙️ Glasgow 🏴
📍 Transmission Gallery
(28 King Street)
✍️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/hard-labour-4856533
ℹ️ All information: https://arika.org.uk/hard-labour/> All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!
> Featuring workshops, talks and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work, how it affects us and how we resist it.
> Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. We’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.
> Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of our long history of sex worker resistance, the flame of our current struggles to the warmth of our future dreams.
> Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a welcome to make art.
> Partnering with Arika and Transmission our weekend of events invites you into a glimpse of our imagined futures, creating time in the now where we can truly exist.
‣ Programme:
🗓️ Friday 21st
• «Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion»
🕑 14:00–17:00 👥 NUM
• «Drinks and Nibbles»
🕔 17:00–18:30
• «How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution»
🕡 18:30–19:45
👤 Chaoying Rao 👤 Madi Awadalla🗓 Saturday 22nd
• «Sex Worker Breakfast»
🕥 10:30–12:30
🎯 Sex workers only (obviously)
• «Tell Me About It»
🕜 14:30–17:30
👥 The Human Library
• «Queer Sex Worker Shorts»
🕗 20:00–21:30
👥 Carnal Productions🗓 Sunday 22nd
• «Coffee, Croissants and Massage»
🕚 11:00–12:00
👥 Five Rivers Massage
• «Stripper Life Drawing»
🕛 12:00–14:00
👥 East London Stripper Collective
• «Resistance Renewed: Art / Sex / Work / Activism»
🕜 14:30–16:30
👤 Chaoying Rao
• «Badgemaking Workshop»
🕞 15:30–17:30
👤 Hank Ahmad “Green Bananas”RE: https://rss-parrot.net/u/nationaluglymugs.org/status/1787112208003556814
#SexWork #Scotland4Decrim #Glasgow #Scotland #UK #NationalUglyMugs #NUMbrellaLane #EastLondonStripperCollective #SWEvents #History #2026W34
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«Hard Labour»
🗓️ 21st – 23rd August 2026
🏙️ Glasgow 🏴
📍 Transmission Gallery
(28 King Street)
✍️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/hard-labour-4856533
ℹ️ All information: https://arika.org.uk/hard-labour/> All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!
> Featuring workshops, talks and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work, how it affects us and how we resist it.
> Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. We’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.
> Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of our long history of sex worker resistance, the flame of our current struggles to the warmth of our future dreams.
> Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a welcome to make art.
> Partnering with Arika and Transmission our weekend of events invites you into a glimpse of our imagined futures, creating time in the now where we can truly exist.
‣ Programme:
🗓️ Friday 21st
• «Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion»
🕑 14:00–17:00 👥 NUM
• «Drinks and Nibbles»
🕔 17:00–18:30
• «How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution»
🕡 18:30–19:45
👤 Chaoying Rao 👤 Madi Awadalla🗓 Saturday 22nd
• «Sex Worker Breakfast»
🕥 10:30–12:30
🎯 Sex workers only (obviously)
• «Tell Me About It»
🕜 14:30–17:30
👥 The Human Library
• «Queer Sex Worker Shorts»
🕗 20:00–21:30
👥 Carnal Productions🗓 Sunday 22nd
• «Coffee, Croissants and Massage»
🕚 11:00–12:00
👥 Five Rivers Massage
• «Stripper Life Drawing»
🕛 12:00–14:00
👥 East London Stripper Collective
• «Resistance Renewed: Art / Sex / Work / Activism»
🕜 14:30–16:30
👤 Chaoying Rao
• «Badgemaking Workshop»
🕞 15:30–17:30
👤 Hank Ahmad “Green Bananas”RE: https://rss-parrot.net/u/nationaluglymugs.org/status/1787112208003556814
#SexWork #Scotland4Decrim #Glasgow #Scotland #UK #NationalUglyMugs #NUMbrellaLane #EastLondonStripperCollective #SWEvents #History #2026W34
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«Hard Labour»
🗓️ 21st – 23rd August 2026
🏙️ Glasgow 🏴
📍 Transmission Gallery
(28 King Street)
✍️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/hard-labour-4856533
ℹ️ All information: https://arika.org.uk/hard-labour/> All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!
> Featuring workshops, talks and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work, how it affects us and how we resist it.
> Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. We’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.
> Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of our long history of sex worker resistance, the flame of our current struggles to the warmth of our future dreams.
> Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a welcome to make art.
> Partnering with Arika and Transmission our weekend of events invites you into a glimpse of our imagined futures, creating time in the now where we can truly exist.
‣ Programme:
🗓️ Friday 21st
• «Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion»
🕑 14:00–17:00 👥 NUM
• «Drinks and Nibbles»
🕔 17:00–18:30
• «How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution»
🕡 18:30–19:45
👤 Chaoying Rao 👤 Madi Awadalla🗓 Saturday 22nd
• «Sex Worker Breakfast»
🕥 10:30–12:30
🎯 Sex workers only (obviously)
• «Tell Me About It»
🕜 14:30–17:30
👥 The Human Library
• «Queer Sex Worker Shorts»
🕗 20:00–21:30
👥 Carnal Productions🗓 Sunday 22nd
• «Coffee, Croissants and Massage»
🕚 11:00–12:00
👥 Five Rivers Massage
• «Stripper Life Drawing»
🕛 12:00–14:00
👥 East London Stripper Collective
• «Resistance Renewed: Art / Sex / Work / Activism»
🕜 14:30–16:30
👤 Chaoying Rao
• «Badgemaking Workshop»
🕞 15:30–17:30
👤 Hank Ahmad “Green Bananas”RE: https://rss-parrot.net/u/nationaluglymugs.org/status/1787112208003556814
#SexWork #Scotland4Decrim #Glasgow #Scotland #UK #NationalUglyMugs #NUMbrellaLane #EastLondonStripperCollective #SWEvents #History #2026W34
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«Hard Labour»
🗓️ 21st – 23rd August 2026
🏙️ Glasgow 🏴
📍 Transmission Gallery
(28 King Street)
✍️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/hard-labour-4856533
ℹ️ All information: https://arika.org.uk/hard-labour/> All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!
> Featuring workshops, talks and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work, how it affects us and how we resist it.
> Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. We’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.
> Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of our long history of sex worker resistance, the flame of our current struggles to the warmth of our future dreams.
> Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a welcome to make art.
> Partnering with Arika and Transmission our weekend of events invites you into a glimpse of our imagined futures, creating time in the now where we can truly exist.
‣ Programme:
🗓️ Friday 21st
• «Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion»
🕑 14:00–17:00 👥 NUM
• «Drinks and Nibbles»
🕔 17:00–18:30
• «How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution»
🕡 18:30–19:45
👤 Chaoying Rao 👤 Madi Awadalla🗓 Saturday 22nd
• «Sex Worker Breakfast»
🕥 10:30–12:30
🎯 Sex workers only (obviously)
• «Tell Me About It»
🕜 14:30–17:30
👥 The Human Library
• «Queer Sex Worker Shorts»
🕗 20:00–21:30
👥 Carnal Productions🗓 Sunday 22nd
• «Coffee, Croissants and Massage»
🕚 11:00–12:00
👥 Five Rivers Massage
• «Stripper Life Drawing»
🕛 12:00–14:00
👥 East London Stripper Collective
• «Resistance Renewed: Art / Sex / Work / Activism»
🕜 14:30–16:30
👤 Chaoying Rao
• «Badgemaking Workshop»
🕞 15:30–17:30
👤 Hank Ahmad “Green Bananas”RE: https://rss-parrot.net/u/nationaluglymugs.org/status/1787112208003556814
#SexWork #Scotland4Decrim #Glasgow #Scotland #UK #NationalUglyMugs #NUMbrellaLane #EastLondonStripperCollective #SWEvents #History #2026W34
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The background is done! Well, at least for now. I'll probably spend some time refining the details later, but our programmer has to start adding the assets soon so our new built will be ready for gamescom.
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The background is done! Well, at least for now. I'll probably spend some time refining the details later, but our programmer has to start adding the assets soon so our new built will be ready for gamescom.
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The background is done! Well, at least for now. I'll probably spend some time refining the details later, but our programmer has to start adding the assets soon so our new built will be ready for gamescom.
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The background is done! Well, at least for now. I'll probably spend some time refining the details later, but our programmer has to start adding the assets soon so our new built will be ready for gamescom.
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The background is done! Well, at least for now. I'll probably spend some time refining the details later, but our programmer has to start adding the assets soon so our new built will be ready for gamescom.
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New exclusion zones for adult entertainment venues in Adelaide’s CBD
Planning rules restricting where new adult entertainment venues and shops can operate in Adelaide’s CBD and North Adelaide…
#Australia #Adelaide #AdelaideCityCouncil #adultentertainment #CityofAdelaide #governmentregulation #massageparlours #sexshops #sexwork #stripclub
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New exclusion zones for adult entertainment venues in Adelaide's CBD
By Sharne WakefieldNew adult entertainment services including sex shops will be banned from operating in prominent locations across the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, but existing venues will be able to remain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/exclusion-zones-for-new-adult-businesses/107058354
#BusinessandIndustryRegulation #LocalGovernment #SexWork #SharneWakefield
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New exclusion zones for adult entertainment venues in Adelaide's CBD
By Sharne WakefieldNew adult entertainment services including sex shops will be banned from operating in prominent locations across the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, but existing venues will be able to remain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/exclusion-zones-for-new-adult-businesses/107058354
#BusinessandIndustryRegulation #LocalGovernment #SexWork #SharneWakefield
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New exclusion zones for adult entertainment venues in Adelaide's CBD
By Sharne WakefieldNew adult entertainment services including sex shops will be banned from operating in prominent locations across the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, but existing venues will be able to remain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/exclusion-zones-for-new-adult-businesses/107058354
#BusinessandIndustryRegulation #LocalGovernment #SexWork #SharneWakefield
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New exclusion zones for adult entertainment venues in Adelaide's CBD
By Sharne WakefieldNew adult entertainment services including sex shops will be banned from operating in prominent locations across the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, but existing venues will be able to remain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/exclusion-zones-for-new-adult-businesses/107058354
#BusinessandIndustryRegulation #LocalGovernment #SexWork #SharneWakefield
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New exclusion zones for adult entertainment venues in Adelaide's CBD
By Sharne WakefieldNew adult entertainment services including sex shops will be banned from operating in prominent locations across the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, but existing venues will be able to remain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/exclusion-zones-for-new-adult-businesses/107058354
#BusinessandIndustryRegulation #LocalGovernment #SexWork #SharneWakefield
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Inside the ‘whorearchy’ dividing women sex workers
