Sex Workers

Resources for sex workers; the stigma associated needs to be abolished. Sex work is work.

DECRIMNOW
Decriminalisation increases sex workers’ power in their interactions with clients, managers, police and landlords. (UK-based)

Harm Reduction & Decriminalization of Sex Work and Drug Use Factsheet by Positive Women’s Network and National Harm Reduction Coalition
Sex work is an umbrella term which includes any type of labor where a sexual service is provided in return for a benefit. Thus, sex work can include prostitution (direct sexual services), as well as other activities like dancing, webcam work, making adult films, and phone sex. Sex work refers to a consensual transaction between adults and should not be mistaken for sex trafficking, which may involve violence, threats, deception, or other forms of coercion and exploitation.

HIPS
HIPS promotes the health, rights, and dignity of individuals and communities impacted by sexual exchange and/or drug use due to choice, coercion, or circumstance. HIPS provides compassionate harm reduction services, advocacy, and community engagement that is respectful, non-judgmental, and affirms and honors individual power and agency. 

Meaningful Work: Transgender Experiences in the Sex Trade

National Harm Reduction Coalition: Sex Work
Sex work is an issue central to the Harm Reduction movement. The National Harm Reduction Coalition is committed to creating real space and resources for sex workers and highlighting the important intersection in our work. We’re the first to say that we haven’t been doing enough to support the sex work community. Until then, we’re sharing the resources we do have and using this space to curate and uplift other organizations and groups doing a great job at showing up for people who engage in sex work.

National Sex Worker Bail Fund
SWOP Behind Bars (SBB) is a national grassroots social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers, victims of trafficking, and their communities.

Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP) Resource Center
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.

The Sex Workers Project
The Sex Workers Project provides client-centered legal and social services to individuals who engage in sex work, regardless of whether they do so by choice, circumstance, or coercion.

SWOP Behind Bars
SWOP Behind Bars (SBB) is a national grassroots social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers, victims of trafficking, and their communities.

Third Wave Fund & Sex Worker Giving Circle
The SWGC was created because sex workers are best positioned to confront and transform the oppressive conditions of their own lives. However, movements led by sex workers and people with experience in the sex trade are critically under-resourced despite increasing political attacks. The SWGC is a giving circle made up of individuals with current or past experience in the sex trade. 

What this Male Sex Worker Wants You to Know by Now This News
RJ Thompson is a lawyer and an escort — and he wants to dispel the myth that all sex workers are ‘victims.’

Whose Corner Is It Anyway?
Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and organizing group led by stimulant and opioid using low-income, survival, or street-based sex workers, founded in 2017.