Today, the National Center for Transgender Equality's Mara Keisling testified in support of DC's #DecrimNow bill! Sex workers deserve #HousingNotHandcuffs! This bill will make sure sex workers have the resources they need to thrive, not just survive.

.HIPS cyndeeclay is on the mic for DECRIMNOW DC Shake it up!!! #DecrimNow #DecrimDCNow @BYP_100

Folks from the amazing HIPS now testifying about how Nordic Model/End Demand — which has such a bad reputation prohibitionists are now trying to rename it the “Equality Model”— continues to use law enforcement in ways that are unhelpful & push sex workers underground #DecrimDC

.HIPS folx up on the panel taking about #DecrimDC. Also on #SewaneeHunt to advocate for criminalization. Gotta get the popcorn DECRIMNOW DC #decrimdcnow

Swanee Hunt, who PAYS POLICE TO ARREST SEX WORKERS, has the audacity to tell sex worker next to her that they all want the same thing #decrimdc #decrimnow

1 in 5 sex workers in DC have been approached by police asking them for sex. Criminalization keeps folks vulnerable to police & other forms of violence. #DecrimNow #DecrimNowDC

amazing how many anti-decrim folks have based arguments around outright false portrayals of those they’re opposing....Their rhetoric doesn’t work when up against real people & real communities. It doesn’t work when they’re talking TO, not ABOUT, sex workers #DecrimNow #DecrimDC

So there’s this DC group that purports to support decrim and sexual freedom... and none of them showed up to testify today for #DecrimNow. When they ask you for money (& they will) remember it was @BYP_100 HIPS Collective Action for Safe Spaces and blkwomenshealth who did this work DECRIMNOW DC

I’m doing a thing tonight, ICYMI. #historyteachesustoresist #votingisnttheonlything #TheResistance #MLKDay #MLKDay2020 Trevor Noah The Daily Show comedycentral Beacon Press

A good story ... too bad @TimGinty doesn’t recognize human trafficking when he writes about it: Migrant workers in Thailand are organizing to combat exploitation by the country's fishing industry globalvoices.org/2020/02/25/mig…

From #Stonewall to #SlutWalk, sex workers have been at the vanguard of #socialjustice movements such as gay liberation, #womensrights, #reproductivejustice, and prison abolition. Melinda Chateauvert uncovers this underrepresented movement. #WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/2JLITB4

.Alex Press, YMTM: Strippers STARTED the campaign to reclassify workers as workers not as independent contractors beginning in Calif in 1997! I #Sexworkers’ victories est’d legal precedent for Uber et al #sexworkersunite @comebystjames jacobinmag jacobinmag.com/2020/08/stripp…

Still true. Still not recognized by historians or by activist historians.

“Sex workers are fighters & they’ve been fighting against the police & predators for a long time. They also tell stories about building community & organizing protests about individual acts of resistance.”—Melinda Chateauvert #Pride #FightThePower buff.ly/2JLITB4

I don’t know but is The Guardian / Matta Busby pulling a slick FU to IRC - International Rescue Committee and s e x trafkg awareness month propaganda by calling out Miliband’s #WhiteSupremacy? Course #sexworkerrights folx have always known the agenda of those #pearlclutchers 🙀

That time when Melinda Chateauvert @liz_edman Ginny Gilder Laura A Jacobs LCSWR Kelly Jennings Martin Moran Andrea Ritchie also @dreanyc123.bsky.social @KayJWhitlock & others reflected on the 50th anniversary of the #StonewallRiots. Today we honor the power of queer #resistance. #DefundThePolice buff.ly/2NkRXzV

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