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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight we went out to support the striking workers at Encore casino! Casino workers and sex workers both face the stigma of working in a “vice” industry. Sex workers often work at casinos, and we appreciate the hard work of all the staff. Encore, pay your workers a fair wage!

Three white woman holding protest signs in front of a green manicured lawn and a tall ornate light up sign reading Encore. The signs say “Sex workers support casino workers,” “Boston sex workers support Encore workers,” and “Sex workers stand in solidarity with Encore workers.”

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Protect Trans Futures @protectransfutures.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It was an honor to march with y'all we'll see you next time :)

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yesterday we held the first ever S-x Worker Pride March in Boston. S-x workers are your neighbors, your community members, and your colleagues, and we are proud of who we are! ☂️

A group of about 50 people standing with banners and red umbrellas in front of a brick building with a red awning reading “Jacque’s” and a gay pride flag. The banners, from left to right, read “Save Our Selves,” “Protect Trans Futures,” “Whores Started Pride: Decriminalize Sex Work Now, BSWAC,” and “Sex Worker Pride Boston.”

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We're so excited for our upcoming Sex Worker Pride Party this Sunday 9/13 from 5-9pm, in Dorchester!

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Willow @devotedcanvas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What a beautiful evening to be out and about before going to see Working Girls and support the @bostonswac.bsky.social.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 08/09/2026

HEY BOSTON Sept 14 is Sex Worker Pride Day! This will be the first march celebrating the day in Boston!

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We’ll be participating in the first ever Sex Worker Pride March in Boston on Monday, 9/14, organized by Red Light District. Come march with us! We’ll be meeting at 5pm, marching through the former Combat Zone, and ending with an afterparty at Jacque’s Cabaret. actionnetwork.org/events/bosto...

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Boston Sex Worker Pride March

Join the Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective to participate in the first ever Sex Worker Pride March in Boston on Monday, September 14. This march is being organized by Red Light Disco, and BSWAC...

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@bostonswac.bsky.social and @somervilletheatre.bsky.social are proud to present Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls (1986) on September 7th! Come join us for a talkback with some of our members! Purchase tickets here: somervilletheatre.com/production/working-girls

Working Girls. A Lizzie Borden film. Film talkback with Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective. Monday, September 7, 2026. 7:30 pm. Somerville Theatre. 50% of Sales Tickets go to BSWAC

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Finally, a platform is giving creators on it equity in the company. Co-founder @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social is donating her ownership stake to create an equity pool for creators. "All workers, but especially s*x workers, should have ownership in the companies they help build."

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thank you @clrhenrysantana.bsky.social for inviting us to your Pride event and being open to listen to s-x workers about our needs. We are so honored to receive this resolution recognizing our work! 😭🌈🩷

A black person in a pink shirt reading Ask Me About Sex Worker Labor Rights, a black man in a blue suit, and a white woman in a white embroidered shirt holding a certificate, in front of a Pride themed background

A certificate reading:

2076-00
CITY COUNCIL
Official Resolution
presented by
Councilor At-Large Henry Santana in recognition of
Boston Sex Workers & Allies Collective
Be It Resolved that the Boston City Council
extends its congratulations and best wishes for continued success; and Be It Further Resolved that
Councilor Santana deeply respects and appreciates your enduring and transformative work in addressing the vital needs of Boston's LGBTQIAS+ community through your crucial advocacy for increased legal, labor, and social protections for sex workers;
Your ongoing efforts extend far beyond immediate relief, continuously driving the systemic and legislative change necessary to dismantle stigma, combat criminalization, and cultivate a safer, more secure, and profoundly inclusive environment for all LGBQIAS+ individuals across our city; and
Councilor Santana encourages you to continue to hold him and the Boston City Council accountable to stand alongside you in this work, and to take real, impactful action for our LGBTQIA2S+ community; and
Be It Further Resolved that this Resolution
be duly signed by the President of the City Council and attested to, and a copy thereof transmitted by the Clerk of the City of Boston.
HOS
By:
Lilyahalt Bream
resident of the City Council
Attest:
Quey Granta
Clerk of the City of Boston
Offered hy: _
Henry a. Santana
Bute: Wehosday, June 10,2024

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

One of our unhoused members is looking for support - can you help?

mutual aid request!*
Black queer femme needs support with phone bill!
Can 4 people d*nate $50?
Z*lle: 484-547-5377
V*nmo: @ TheStellaBee

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Every year, the cheers we hear at Pride get a little bit louder. We dream for a day when none of us has to wear a paper bag over our head to protect our identity, when none of our members fear marching because they could be recognized as a sex worker. Thanks for enabling us to be ourselves.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Massachusetts residents: take 2 mins to tell the House Ways & Means Committee to protect sex workers this Pride! 🌈☂️ We’re asking them to pass 2 bills to create a commission to study decriminalizing sex work and to eliminate the crime of common night walking. bit.ly/sexworkpridema

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Support a study commission and safe reporting for sex workers

The Massachusetts House Ways & Means Committee is considering a bill that would create a commission to study decriminalizing sex work in Massachusetts, H4610: An Act to Study the Decriminalization of ...

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We’ll be at Dyke March and Pride today and tomorrow - come chat with us at our table! 💕🌈

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Happy #TransDayofVisibility! We honor the trans sex workers who have been at the forefront of the battle for trans rights, racial equality, decriminalization, and social justice as a whole. We also ask for support for our community member Frankie, who is recovering from gender affirming surgery.

Black and white photos of Trans women of various races over a trans flag background with the words HONORING
TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY
and the trans s3x workers who have paved the way.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 30/03/2026

HEY MASSACHUSETTS!! This is the other call to action from @bostonswac.bsky.social! Details at the link in the OP.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 30/03/2026

HEY MASSACHUSETTS!! Do you know about the sex worker led activist group @bostonswac.bsky.social? Now you do! We're pushing for full decriminalization of sex work in MA and they current step is getting a bill pushed through to the MA House for a vote! Support here: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

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Support a committee to study decriminalizing sex work in Massachusetts

A bill that would create a committee to study decriminalizing sex work in Massachusetts, H4610: An Act to Study the Decriminalization of Sex Work, just passed out of the House Judiciary Committee! It'...

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Join us tomorrow night at The Comedy Studio in Harvard Square for @kaytlinbailey.bsky.social’s one woman show. The Oldest Profession is a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a s*x worker's perspective. Tickets here - SWs DM us for a discount! www.thecomedystudio.com/events/the-o...

Flyer reading The OLDEST PROFESSON
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY
KAYTLIN BAILEY
THURSDAY MAR 26 8 PM

With a photo of a woman and several photos of sex workers in history

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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm excited to be in Boston/Cambridge tomorrow for this screening of @sexworkfilm.bsky.social.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Join us tomorrow night from 5:30-9:30 for a screening of the new documentary film, S-x Work: It’s Just a Job, at the Central Square Theater with special guest speaker @alexvitale.bsky.social In collaboration with The Black Response, Transition House, & Impact Boston.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Here are 5 actions you can take to support Massachusetts sex workers for International Sex Workers’ Rights Day! ✨

A red and pink graphic with cutout newspaper, a lipstick print, and an eye, reading:

5 Actions to take in Massachusetts for
International S-x
Workers Rights Day

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

One of our members is asking for some support - they are an amazing activist who advocates for better policies for homeless people in Boston, please share!

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Please follow Caty, an amazing sex workers rights organizer with Whose Corner Is It Anyway in Western Mass, here and at her new Facebook account! Facebook deleted her old account due to censorship.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Mayor Wu’s administration @mayorwu.boston.gov is trying to ban street outreach at Mass & Cass, targeting the very people who help street based sex workers and drug users stay alive. This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.

CURRENT BUENS
Wu axes street outreach on Mass/cass.
Endorses fines and stay-away orders.

Tensions at Mass. and Cass spark debate over how to help people struggling with substance abuse
Aid workers say stronger enforcement undermines efforts to help people on the streets, but the city says its approach is working.
By Chris Serres Globe Staff, Updated December 30, 2025, 6:00 a.m. |
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A photo of two women hugging

On Dec 30th, the Boston Globe dropped a story surrounding mounting hostility towards street outreach workers by law enforcement.

Mayor Michelle Wu and admin are increasingly pushing enforcement over harm reduction. Civilian outreach groups distributing winter clothing, food, Narcan and hygiene supplies report being Yelled at, followed by police, and ordered to leave while doing lifesaving street outreach.

TL;DR: THERE IS BLOOD ON WU'S HANDS.
• Boston is fining and banning street outreach
• Shelters are full during a freezing, wet winter
• Harm reduction is being pushed out by force
This does not create safety.
It cuts off Narcan, HIV-Prevention, warmth, food and trusted care from sex workers and people who use drugs.
When shelters are full, when outreach is criminalized, when survival is punished,
People die

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Today we hold space for grief, rage, love and resistance. Violence against sex workers doesn’t need to be inevitable. That’s why we fight for more. More dignity, more rights, more autonomy. For a safer tomorrow.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

One of our members, a neurodivergent trans woman facing multiple barriers in the workplace, is currently unhoused and looking for support to stay in a motel until she can find more stable housing. If you can help, her Cash App is $AvaB1400. She is also looking for jobs to apply to. Thank you! 💖

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🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

#savespeech #stopKOSA ATTENTION! The House of Energy and Commerce has pushed a package of(now 18) "child safety" bills to a subcommittee markup. This means the bills will be likely voted on to go to a FULL committee markup, which sends it out to the House. Call the Committee. Tell them to vote NO

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Just found this starter pack of Boston sex workers! ❤️

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Consider this your formal invitation. Join BSWAC for an evening dedicated to mutual care, safety and justice. Open to all. December 17th. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/inter...

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Prepping for street outreach for street-based sex workers in Boston. Runs monthly on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Interested in donating supplies? Check out our Amazon wishlist here: www.amazon.com/registries/g... #GivingTuesday

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

World AIDS Day is a reminder that s-x workers have always been leaders in HIV prevention and advocacy. May all those we’ve lost be what propels us forward.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Our bill to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts is being heard at the State House next Tuesday, 11/25 at 10am! We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!

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Jessica Van Meir @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Supporting the Epstein survivors is important, but please don’t support World Without Exploitation. They advocate for policies that are really harmful to sex workers, like the Nordic Model, which puts sex workers at greater risk of violence and poverty by criminalizing their clients.

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Vivian Darkbloom @vivdarkbloom.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It’s getting wild out there! If you’re a Mass. based provider or community member that needs help, message me. If you’d like to support my mutual aid efforts, see the pic!

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Sex workers in MA losing SNAP benefits - apply here for some help!

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aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social · 28/10/2025

i donated $18! can anyone match me?

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We have a member who is currently unhoused and looking for job interview clothes, size 2XL. Let us know if you have anything to donate, or know of jobs she can apply to! She’s looking for a job in food service, grocery store, retail etc.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We had the best time tabling at Fist Boston on Monday! I’m told that someone passed out because of how sexy our asses were 🍑

Six women of various races and heights wearing dresses, bikinis, or fetish gear, standing behind a table which reads BSWAC in the front and contains multiple flyers and buttons.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This weekend, we reached ~25 people with our street outreach at Mass & Cass, giving out feminine products, condoms & lube, water, snacks, underwear, socks, and makeup. It was harder to find people this week, as the police have been cracking down lately and pushing people into hiding.

Three people smiling behind a table in an alleyway full of supplies, with two boxes of clothes in front and two pairs of sneakers.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We testified at Cambridge city counsel to educate on the needs of sex workers in the city, emphasizing decriminalization so that workers can seek help without fear of arrest when they are victims of a crime. When sex workers are safer, we are all safer. 💞 www.cambridgeday.com/2025/06/24/d...

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Our first street outreach day at Mass & Cass was a success! We saw ~25 people and gave out: - 48 water bottles - 46 chip bags - ~50 condoms - 25 makeup pieces - ~10 outfits Have something you’d like to donate for our next outreach day? Let us know! ❤️

Two young white women standing in front of a brick building, one wearing sunglasses, the other throwing a peace sign and duck lips in a pink t-shirt that says Decriminalize Sex Work Now! BSWAC

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Boston Dyke March @handle.invalid · 19/06/2025

These photos aren’t from our event, but we love having BSWAC at the Dyke March!

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Join us tomorrow night at Central Square Theater for a post-show talk about Mrs. Warren’s Profession, a play about a former sex worker turned madam whose adult daughter confronts her about her work. 100 years after Bernard Shaw wrote this play, the issues it tackles remain just as relevant.

A play poster reading Mrs. Warren’s Profession, May 29-June 22, 2025, by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Eric Tucker, Bedlum. There’s a photo of a woman in a headscarf and sunglasses smiling with cash between her teeth.

A purple flyer with the text:

06/19
Feminism, Labor, and Generational Perspectives on Sex Work
Thursday, June 19 - 9:45 PM
featuring:
Linda C.
McClain
Robert Kent
Professor of Law and co-director of the BU
Program on
Reproductive Justice at Boston University
School of Law

Gowri Vijayakumar
Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We had an amazing time marching and tabling at Boston Pride and Dyke March this weekend! 🌈 We honored the mothers of our movement, Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P. Johnson, two trans sex workers who played key roles in the Stonewall riot that started Pride. We were moved to tears by all the cheers ❤️☂️

A group of 5 people holding red umbrellas in a march and a pink banner reading “Whores Started Pride. Decriminalize Sex Work Now! BSWAC Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective”

Two white women in pink shirts reading “Decriminalize Sex Workers Now! BSWAC” standing under a white tent behind a table with a hot pink table cloth and several flyers, and in front of a cardboard sign reading Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This week was International Whore’s Day! ☂️ In honor of all the sex workers who’ve fought for their rights, we’re asking you to write to your Massachusetts legislators to ask them to co-sponsor these bills for sex workers’ safety. Go to bit.ly/SupportMASexWorkers 💕

HAPPY (late)
INTERNATIONAL WHORE'S DAY!
Support MA sex workers by writing to your legislators!
BSWAC

We are currently trying to pass these bills to promote SW safety in Massachusetts:
H1980 - An Act to Promote the Health and Safety of People in the Sex Trade
H2467 - An Act to Study the Decriminalization of Sex Work
H1747 - An Act Relative to Safe Reporting
H2634 - An Act Relative to Sexual Assault by an
Officer
Go to the link below to send a letter to your legislator!
bit.ly/SupportMASexWorkers
BSWAC

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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

my comments in support of @bostonswac.bsky.social and sex work decriminalization from today’s Cambridge City Council committee meeting

My name is Siobhan, I live in Cambridge and I'm a member of Cambridge DSA. I'm here to speak in support of sex work decriminalization. I'm here in a personal capacity and not on behalf of my employer, but I want to tell you what I do for work, so that you understand why this issue is so important to me.
I provide free legal services to working-class
LGBTQ people. I help with discrimination in employment, housing, and other public places.
Unfortunately, employment discrimination against LGBTQ people persists and is especially pervasive against transgender job-seekers. This exacerbates housing insecurity and homelessness caused by familial rejection that is still all too widespread. It's no wonder, then, that many trans people look beyond legal employment avenues.
Cambridge says it "will take active steps to ensure that transgender and gender diverse individuals have access to healthcare, housing, education, and employment without fear of discrimination." These are lofty goals, though, and we are far from achieving them in Cambridge or anywhere else in this country. Compared to cis people, trans people still earn much less money, are much more likely to be unemployed, and are much more likely to experience homelessness.

With that backdrop, it's no surprise that many trans people are involved in sex work. People need homes, they need food, they need healthcare, and sex work provides a way to meet those needs.
Criminalizing sex workers or their clients doesn't fix that. It doesn't meet anyone's basic needs, or make our city any safer. It just forces more conflict between vulnerable people and a criminal legal system that exacerbates these issues. Court costs and legal fees make financial woes worse, and arrest or incarceration can lead to unspeakable violence, especially against trans women.
Criminalization also casts a shadow over every encounter between sex workers and clients-when sex work is forced into a black market, it makes it even tougher to address problem clients.
Trans women, and all sex workers, deserve better than jails, fines, and abusive cops. They're telling you the stakes here. Listen to them.

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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Transition House, a domestic violence shelter in Cambridge, is seeking input from the community in response to the Cambridge brothel case. We are concerned by the one-sided framing of the questions, and hope sex workers will be listened to. Share your input here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

LISTENING SESSION
TRANSITION HOUSE
In response to the recent Cambridge brothel case, Transition House is launching a community listening session series to gather essential input on how our city can address commercial sex exploitation.
We are asking our community what accountability looks like through a restorative justice framework-focusing on healing harm, addressing root causes, and creating systemic change.
These sessions will explore concrete actions the City Council can take to support individuals currently being sexually exploited in Cambridge while considering impactful prevention strategies.
Please fill out this 5 question survey and share it with your network:
English: https://bit.ly/thouselisten
Español: https://bit.ly/thouseescuchar
Tiếng Việt: https://bit.ly/thousenghe
Português: https:// bit.ly/4ms1GRk

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