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The Sex Workers Outreach Project for New York City. Email: swopnyc @protonmail.com

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Folk-Punk against facial recognition banfacialrecognition.com/venues
banfacialrecognition.com
Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events
Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
an important piece documenting how corrections officers at Cook County Jail in Chicago responded to a cell fire by sealing prisoners into a cell with a “cell fogger“ of pepper spray, leaving Martinez Duncan dead on Nov. 25, 2025 southsideweekly.com/sixteen-minu...
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Sixteen Minutes in a Burning Cell
What we know about Martinez Duncan’s death in Cook County Jail
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New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance @njrua.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
No Matter who wins the World Cup, sex workers are criminalized. We resist this unnecessary and cruel practice. Learn more here www.bestpracticespolicy.org/2026/07/19/r...
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Resisting Criminalization during FIFA World Cup 2026 | bestpracticespolicy.org
Fighting for the human rights of people in the sex trades
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
(written by @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social )
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This really sums up why we need internet anonymity.
So who, exactly is anonymity for?

It's for the teenage girl who lost her mother when she was young, just got her period for the first time, and is to embarrassed to meet with a school nurse. 

It's for the 45-year-old who hasn't drunk in years but is realizing that he's struggling with his sobriety and needs to talk privately about it.  

It's for a woman coming to terms with the fact her boyfriend is abusive and figuring out how to get away from him without his knowledge. 

It's for a Chinese immigrant who wants to speak about human rights abuses he witnessed at home without his family in Beijing paying the price for his words or repression following him abroad. 

It's for a factory worker looking for resources about how to report unsafe conditions without losing his job. 

It's for a college freshman who needs to talk about being gay without fearing his family will learn of it before he's ready to tell them. 

It's for a grandmother who just received a breast cancer diagnosis and wants to discreetly discuss her anxiety about a mastectomy,

It's for a priest dealing with depression  who doesn't know how to manage his feelings of emptiness amidst his duties to his parish. 

It's for anyone who has ever experienced a fear, thought, idea or emotion that need to express but aren't ready to share with colleagues, family, friends, or acquaintances or authority figures.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The idea of “harmful speech” is nothing more than a pretext to government censorship. They started, of course, with pornography, then quickly moved into political dissent. Now they’re casting entire platforms and formats as dangerous — as if ideas were weapons or drugs.
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SWOP NYC @swopnyc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Number One: Cops shouldn't have a "list" of sex workers. Number Two: Cops shouldn't be allowed to solicit sex workers.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Sex workers have been asking this question for 20 years.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026
I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.
newrepublic.com
The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency
A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Every inch forward is a victory.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
If you can still be surveilled by police, evicted, deported, or cut off from your support networks, then you aren't safer. #NordicModel
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SWR Data @swr-data.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
We didn't get into this in the actual post, but it's worth mentioning the five platforms LGBTQ+ creators view most positively: 1. @sextpanther.bsky.social (+74%) 2. @realloyalfans.bsky.social (+69%) 3. @fansly.com (+68%) 4. @clips4sale.com (56%) 5. @justfor.fans (+56%)
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Heads up for next week: the House will be debating and voting on HR 7757, the KIDS Act, which contains a revised version of KOSA. What's more terrifying is this bill is listed in the batch of bills to be brought up on Monday, which means the GOP doesn't expect much opposition to it passing.
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The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about p...
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The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow) @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
(4/4) - Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera initiated the Riots. - Both were trans, racialized women (Marsha was Black, and Sylvia was Latina). - And both were street-based sex workers. There would be no Stonewall without them or the sex workers that came both before and after them.
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The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow) @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/226526... #StoneWallDay
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Sex Workers Unite by Melinda Chateauvert | Penguin Random House Canada
A provocative history which reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years, building a movement that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality...
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SWOP NYC @swopnyc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The commenter's opinion is wrong even from an evangelical Christian standpoint. If whoring is wrong, then what is killing?
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SWOP NYC @swopnyc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It's attitudes like this YouTube commenter which allowed the Gilgo Beach Killer to do what he did to sex workers. Not only is it bad humanity, it's bad theology.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Goddess bless Annie Sprinkle
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Alison Boden @alisonboden.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Antonia Crane: "Sex workers — like me — get arrested because cops and politicians have something to prove. It’s Election Day, it’s the World Cup, it’s whatever. We are not dirt to sweep up when they clean up the streets ." thelalocal.org/neighborhood...
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Why the World Cup has sex workers worried
Law enforcement agencies are planning one of the largest security operations in LA history, but for sex workers, more policing means more fear, more abuse, more trauma and poverty.
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SWAN Vancouver @swan-vancouver.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“If movements insist that only publicly self-identified community members can shape strategy, they risk sidelining those who cannot safely be out.” - SWAN Program Manager Kelly Go
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Absolutely repulsive, devoid of any understanding of history and/or the vulnerability this kind of tech could make for patrons.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This Sunday: Father’s Day and Juneteenth event at Delaney Hall. Free. Them. All.
A red flyer reading: LABOR EYES ON ICE
Join unions and community members as we honor families separated on Fathers' Day and the legacy of Juneteenth. We stand in solidarity with the hunger and labor strikers inside Delaney Hall.
FREE THEM ALL!!
10 AM - 12 PM SUNDAY, JUNE 21
451 DOREMUS AVE
RSVP here
Everyone is welcome
NEWA CBRAN
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 16/06/2026
This legislation is another example of the U.S.'s cruel commitment to expanding the carceral system. If the U.S. wants to end homelessness, it should invest in housing, not criminalization.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Faith-based censorship group NCOSE declaring that sexual consent is "uniquely sensitive" and warrants "a particularly high standard of freedom and autonomy." Which they then use to argue that women should be denied the freedom and autonomy to consent to sex work. www.dillywire.com/2026/06/arch...
In contexts like these, most people recognize that coercing sexual consent through financial necessity - or even financial opportunity
— is exploitative and abusive. There's a good reason for this. It's because sexual consent is a uniquely sensitive type of consent, which must be given completely freely. Generally speaking, it is not wrong to pay someone to do a job that they may not really desire.
But sexual consent warrants a particularly high standard of freedom and autonomy. As such, it is wrong to use money (or any other means) to pressure someone into accepting sexual situations that they do not authentically desire.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/06/2026
the people trying to ban young people from the internet are just telling them that they’ve given up on the internet. “I’m going to stay on a shit internet but you can’t” is not a trust and safety fostering policy, it’s surrendering your own agency and pretending it’s helping
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Cop given slap on wrist after confessing to rape and sexual harassment" There FIFY.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The co-chair of the Indiana Protection for Abused and Trafficked Humans Law Enforcement Task Force spent 4 months getting taxpayer-funded penis massages and no one batted an eye reason.com/2026/06/01/i...
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Indiana police misplace more than $30,000 seized in massage parlor prostitution raids
The raids took place after a detective with the state Protection for Abused and Trafficked Humans Law Enforcement Task Force got four penis massages.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Your reminder that Pennsylvania, Florida & Indiana will actually spend taxpayer funds to DEFEND cops who rape sex workers, referring to the rapes as "prostitution investigations". Indiana even had a cop on payroll who'd testify as an "expert defense witness" (even on loan to PA and FL).
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A pogrom against immigrants = "people who want their country back" Mass protests against police brutality = violent terrorist riots
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/06/2026
Q: On the World Cup, at least one referee from Somali and one Iraqi team staff member were denied entry at US airports in recent days, and dozens of fans have been denied-- MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We're not gonna allow people that are perceived to have criminal ties to come into this country
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
News: A Manhattan magistrate judge has determined Brad Lander is NOT GUILTY of obstructing elevators and an elevator lobby at 26 Federal Plaza while demanding access to ICE detention cells last summer
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
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Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New from me: A defense lawyer wrongly arrested for drug smuggling into Rikers because of a false positive on a notoriously unreliable field test has filed a federal false arrest and defamation lawsuit against the city, the correction officers union and its prez. www.nydailynews.com/2026/06/11/n...
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NYC lawyer wrongfully arrested for contraband drugs defamed by Rikers Island union: lawsuit
Correction officers and their union head made a public show of arresting Bernardo Caceres, 31, last June — calling him a “drug peddling attorney.”
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his armsArticle screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Punisher sticker we've needed all along
You're not The Punisher
You're a white supremacist who didn't read the comics
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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · 09/06/2026
As we anticipate a social media ban to be proposed by the Canadian government tomorrow, it's worth noting in the Charter of Rights: "everyone" includes young people and "media of communication" includes social media.
Fundamental freedoms

2 Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: …

(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The people of Albania have been protesting the Trump family for 11 days straight because Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner want to build a $2 billion luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive coast site. Solidarity with the people of Albania standing up to billionaire greed. 🇦🇱 🎥 @olsimeraj on IG
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PIC Amsterdam @picamsterdam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Dyke March Amsterdam vindt plaats op 27 juni. Let op: mooi te combineren met het Wallen Festival dat ook dat hele weekend overdag plaats vindt. We delen binnenkort het programma in het 🎉 dykemarch-amsterdam.neocities.org
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Dyke March Amsterdam
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10/06/2026
You know before we pasteurized milk we just died. We let babies die. So yes, you are correct. We don't need to pasteurize milk if you're ok with mass death. Also, almost every single food you eat whether animal or plant is the result of human modification.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026
THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Quite possibly the funniest, yet sweetest, thing I've read this year.
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National Ugly Mugs @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#CarersWeek2026 Carers may enter #sxwork as a way of supporting their family, to work flexibly around busy schedules, and for financial stability. Many of our members are carers for someone in their life 💌
Text reads, "Carers Week 8th June - 14th June. In the UK, roughly 9% of people (around 5.7 million) are unpaid carers*
Carers often go unseen, but they act as a pillar for their networks. At National Ugly Mugs, we stand for adequate support and recognition for carers across the UK.
*Source: *Carers Worldwide (2024) - https://carersworldwide.org/"
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rax 🏳️‍🌈 she/அவள்/elle @raxsha.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
For my latest for Mashable: what sex worker activists all around the world are doing to fight for everyone's digital rights Thank you @decrimnow.bsky.social @eswa-network.bsky.social @scarletalliance.bsky.social, SWU UK, United Brothel Workers in Nevada, and others 💕 mashable.com/life/adult-w...
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How adult workers are fighting for everyone's online privacy
From Sheri's Ranch in Nevada to Australia, adult workers are fighting for online safety.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/06/2026
“NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin [said] that the administration is weighing how to expand access to such services for minors, but must strike a balance between providing care to trans youth and avoiding federal backlash.” What is the point of this city in this state in this crisis
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
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ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from custody
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
IC cofounder Mariame Kaba & abolitionist organizer/educator Neta Bomani will explore how they engaged archival records to illuminate moments from the life of freedom fighter & revolutionary Joan Bird. 📍 NYC
 🗓️ Saturday, July 11 
🕰️ 4pm 
➡️ Register: bit.ly/FragmentedEncounters
Fragmented Encounters: Reconstructing Black Women’s Lives from the Archive ft. Mariame Kaba Searching for Joan Bird July 11 • NYC
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