SWOP Behind Bars Advocacy from the Margins

For more than two decades, December 17 has stood as a beacon of remembrance and resistance - the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. It began in 2003 in San Francisco, when sex work...

17 Dec 20252min

Imagine a world where safety is not conditional, where dignity is not negotiable, and where justice does not come with caveats. A world where sex work is recognized as work - where our labor is respec...

16 Dec 20253min

December 17 is a day of remembrance—but it has always been more than mourning. Each year, as we gather under the red umbrella, we hold two truths at once: the depth of our grief and the strength of ou...

15 Dec 20253min

If we want to end violence against sex workers, we need to start following the money. For decades, billions in public and private funding have flowed into systems that cause more harm - police raids, ...

14 Dec 20253min

Solidarity is not abstract - it’s something you practice. For sex workers, real allyship means moving beyond hashtags and sympathy into consistent, tangible action. It means showing up, speaking up, a...

13 Dec 20253min

Say the name Jezebel, and most people immediately picture the ultimate bad girl of the Bible - the woman so scandalous she got her own eternal insult. She’s the gold standard of "don’t be that girl". ...

12 Dec 20254min

When we talk about ending violence against sex workers, one of the most powerful tools we have isn’t another round of policing or another set of restrictive laws-it’s decriminalization. Because the ev...

12 Dec 20255min

Art has always been one of the fiercest weapons of survival for sex workers. When our histories are erased, art rewrites them. When the world refuses to see us, art makes us visible. When grief threat...

11 Dec 20255min