SWOP Behind Bars Advocacy from the Margins

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is one of those people. She has spent decades surviving systems that were never designed to allow Black trans women to live safely - much less to lead movements, shape politic...

30 Jun 14min

The internet has changed sex work in ways no one could have imagined a generation ago. It has created more independence, more control over screening, and more ways to build safer work. But it has also...

29 Jun 9min

For decades, feminists, sex workers, trafficking survivors, LGBTQ advocates, prison reformers, harm reductionists, and anti-violence organizations have often found themselves on opposite sides of poli...

26 Jun 4min

There is a moment many marginalized people eventually experience inside progressive spaces when they realize the inclusion was always conditional. The rainbow flags were real. The slogans were real. T...

26 Jun 12min

This is one of the least examined dynamics inside both anti-trafficking spaces and mainstream institutional feminism: the deep, largely unspoken investment in what might be called the "perfect survivo...

19 Jun 12min

For decades, Vaid helped shape LGBTQ political strategy in the United States in ways that went considerably deeper than policy positions or campaign tactics. Her leadership at organizations, including...

17 Jun 15min

So this weekend, Donald Trump celebrated turning 80 by throwing himself a UFC fight card on the lawn of the White House. Not metaphorically. Literally. A 5,000-seat temporary arena, complete with an o...

15 Jun 6min

There is a particular kind of progressive politics that loves queer people right up until queer survival becomes inconvenient. You can see it everywhere once you recognize the pattern. Organizations c...

12 Jun 11min