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Yenn dc ☂️ @[email protected] · 2026-08-05 · 18:00 UTC

«Not Your Mama's Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Softer Side of Criminalization»

https://www.swopbehindbars.org/post/not-your-mama-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.

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Yenn dc ☂️ @[email protected] · 2026-07-12 · 18:00 UTC

«Stop Raids, Save Lives: Sex Workers Demand Safety During World Cup 2026»
Coalition Statement on the Impacts of Policing of Sex Workers at the FIFA World Cup.

https://www.newmoonnetwork.org/news/fifa-2026

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