SWOP-USA
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SWOP-USA reached out to say “We are currently revising our resource list to reflect sex work positive resources! I would recommend referring folks to contact us directly for updated resources in their area.”
More on SWOP-USA below
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Ally Resources
How to be An Ally to Sex Workers adapted from SWOP Chicago
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex
December 17th for Allies Toolkit by Reframe Health & Justice
Police Violence
Policing Sex Work by INCITE!
Hands Up: A Systematized Review of Policing Sex Workers in the U.S. by Fabian Luis Fernandez
Trafficking
The State Department Requests Input… Sex Workers Respond by Reframe Health and Justice & Community
Sex Workers Organising for Change: Self-representation, community mobilisation, and working conditions by Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women
Human Trafficking and Sex Workers’ Rights by Freedom Network USA
Why Ashton Kutcher’s Tear Are Everything that are Wrong with the Anti-Trafficking Movement by Laura LeMoon
White Supremacy
White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
White Feminism, White Supremacy, White Sex Workers by Jupiter Fitzgerald
Prison Industrial Complex
Working Toward Abolition by Prison Culture
Trans & LGBTQ Experience
Meaningful Work: Transgender Experiences in the Sex Trade
The Homophobia and Transphobia Experienced by LGBT Sex Workers by NSWP
Sex Work is an LGBTQ Issue by Reframe Health and Justice
Capitalism
Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work by Juno Mac & Molly Smith
Safety & Security
Molly House Project was founded in October of 2019. We focus on building community among sex workers who identify as masculine-of-center* — including bois, butches, and men (trans and cis) — by addressing structural, cultural, and interpersonal barriers to wellness and safety. Each month we host a virtual chat for MOC workers on a range of topics.
Arrest Safety Planning by SWOP-USA
Tips for Women (By Women) on How to Stay Safe On and Offline by Dashlane
The Empowering Internet Safety Guide for Women by vpnMentor
Know Your Rights
Know Your Rights Manual for the Sex Worker Community: Criminal Law by National Lawyers Guild
Know Your Rights – Keeping Sex Workers Safer During the Super Bowl (video) by Unicorn Riot & SWOP Minneapolis
Policy
Policy on State Obligations to Respect, Protect, and Fulfill the Human Rights of Sex Workers by Amnesty International
Sex Work and the Law: Understanding Legal Frameworks and the Struggle for Sex Work Law Reforms by NSWP
Racial Justice
Black and Brown Sex Workers Keep Getting Pushed to the Margins by Suprihmbé
Why White Allyship Isn’t Enough via Broadly with Feminista Jones
From Margin to Center: Sex Work Decriminalization is a Racial Justice Issue by Jasmine Sankofa
SESTA/FOSTA
Impacts of SESTA on US Sex Worker’s Vulnerability To Infectious Disease
COMMUNITY SUPPORT LINE
877-776-2004
The Community Support Line is one of our most essential resources, and is operated in collaboration between SWOP-USA and SWOP Behind Bars. Current this support line is operated by tireless volunteers who are trained in rape counseling and crisis intervention. To truly make this longstanding and sustainable we need to expand the capacity of the Community Support Line, consider donating directly to that project here.
Self-Care
Self Care for Sex Workers (video) by SWOP-USA
♥︎ Organizations SWAP USA Love ♥︎
Collective Action for Safe Spaces
Survivors Against SESTA (not active)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Finding a sex worker-affirmative therapist by SWOP-USA
Healing in Action Zine by Young Women’s Empowerment Project
Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.
On the national level, SWOP helps build stronger communities and a stronger movement through technical assistance, funding, and direct support and advocacy. On a local level, our chapters address structural, cultural, and interpersonal violence individuals in the sex trade face by working to change attitudes, change policies, and create alternative community-led systems of support.
SWOP was founded in 2003 in the Bay Area, with it’s first major action being the coordination of International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a global vigil that continues to be a cornerstone of SWOP’s awareness-raising work. Since it’s founding, hundreds of individual activists have engaged in local SWOP chapters and national projects geared towards educating the public and policy-makers on the direct and institutional harms committed against sex workers and their communities.
SWOP promotes decriminalization as the best means of decreasing harm and promoting agency amongst people in the sex trade. SWOP adopts the principles and practices of nonviolent action in order to reduce violence and achieve dignity and rights for sex workers. SWOP is committed to the respect, safety, and autonomy of all sex workers, and seeks to amplify the voices of those who are often left out of discourse around the issues we address colletively as a social justice movement.
“Our Mission Statement; Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national grassroots social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education, community building, and advocacy.
SWOP is committed to the safety, autonomy, and human rights of people in the sex trade, and stands in solidarity with the many social justice movements intersectional to our own, including but not limited to Black Lives Matter, disability rights, drug and immigration reform, gender equality and the LGBTQ movement, and the rights of the working class. ”