We fight for decriminalization, and not partial criminalization, because we recognize police violence as part of the problem & we see the ways that laws criminalizing “third parties” are used to criminalize peer safety strategies. #DecrimNow #DecrimNowDC 🎨: Diary of an Angry Black Pute 😈🇯🇲

"Partial decriminalization is not a viable option because it is founed on the belief that sex workers are women. Sex workers are nonbinary, men, queer folks. Sex workers are not binary so stop with the binaries" #decrimnow @theAfroLegalise

They have been "trying" to fix the way DC interact with sex workers and LGBTQ for decades. The entire situation criminalizing sex work pits MPD against sex workers. Period. #decrimnow We can't wait any longer.

a sex worker led, 20 year review of the so called 'equality model' actually showed that it increased stigma for sex workers, especially immigrant women. #DecrimNow.

SEX WORKERS SELL SERVICES NOT THEIR BODIES. Construction workers contract for services not their bodies. Massage therapists contract for services, not their bodies -- all use their bodies for labor. ASLO, K2 was around WAY BEFORE pot decrim. #myths #decrimnow

Oh, well..."MPD’s Human Trafficking Unit doesn’t make many human trafficking arrests. But officers do expose their penises to sex workers and have them undress."ow.ly/6oig30pJLdC

President of the National Organization for Woman now testifying in favor of letting men throw women in cages for having sex 😓 #decrimnow #decrimdc

US OAJ is testifying about trafficking victims. and how hard it is to prosecute, and absolutely nothing about what this bill is about. #DecrimNowDC

US AOJ "Ending demand is critical in ending sex trafficking" I"m pretty sure ending violence, coercion and exploitation would work as well. #DecrimNowDC

US AO says that the low level prostitution busts lead to larger trafficking cases. So we have to keep arresting everyone, or else we can't address trafficking. Seems.....legit?? #decrimnowdc

If nothing else, CM Allen is grilling them over the sentencing numbers. At midnight. #decrimnowdc

Aaaaaand. It's done. 14.5 hours. Great job. Thank you #decrimnowdc

Packed room in War on Women/War on Drugs: Power, Bodies, and Autonomy session at Drug Policy Alliance’s #Reform19 conference. How can we elevate awareness that the war on drugs is a continuation of the war on women? The National Council, HIPS, Lynn Paltrow, Kate

Cecilia Gentili Tamika HIPS DECRIMNOW DC Collective Action for Safe Spaces @thejessicaraven Yin Q Red Canary Song Kink Out "Sex workers were one of the first communities to create platforms for communication and commerce on the internet... our current government policies have now taken away these spaces... this puts sex workers and victims of trafficking at risk" --Yin Q #hackinghustling

"We need to learn to resist intersectionally" -- Andrea Ritchie, War on Women/War on Drugs: Power, Bodies, and Autonomy session at Drug Policy Alliance’s #Reform19 conference.

"You can't actually be anti violence against women and NOT be in support of sex work #decriminalization -- @KateDadamo War on Women/War on Drugs: Power, Bodies, and Autonomy session at Drug Policy Alliance’s #Reform19 conference.

"There are over 400 syringe exchanges in the US, but only about 10 harm reduction drop in centers for sex workers" -- Justice Rivera Drug Policy Alliance’s #Reform19

"You need to be putting your foot down on (bad) sex work policies as you would on sex work policies" Tamika from HIPS #reform19