Caty is the co-editor of Tits and Sass (titsandsass.com), a long-running media site by and for sex workers. Her writing has appeared in The Forward, AlterNet, Vice, Refinery29, the Raw Story, make/shift magazine and HTMLGiant. She is a small-town activist with history working in drug users’ union, harm reduction, low-income rights and mad movement campaigns. Currently, she raises funds (https://www.gofundme.com/w-ma-street-worker-leader-stipends) for a harm reduction task force run by injection-drug-using survival sex workers.
I remember the day Backpage went down this year: April 6. I’d been working at a feverish pace, lining up…