Tag: sex work
Sex Workers Are “Trafficking Victims” Until Cops Don’t Want Them to Be
I started sex work in my early teens. Older boys in the foster care ...
What Options Does the Sex Offender Registry Leave Us, If Not Sex Work?
They say that time is money, but if that’s true then mine doesn’t seem ...
HIV Rights Advance for Cops, Ahead of the Sex Workers They Criminalize
On March 23, the city of Nashville settled a federal discrimination lawsuit over barring ...
Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Continuum of Consent
Circumstantial sex workers often do sex work for a period of time to get ...
The Right to Consensual Sex—and Condoms—in Prison
Greg* has been incarcerated in Tennessee for about 18 months. He’s been on a ...
Tennessee’s HIV Sex Offender Law Discourages Testing, Not Transmission
In the mid-’90s at Washington State Penitentiary, a corrections officer (CO) and I had ...
Re-Queering Harm Reduction Means Reclaiming Its Grassroots Spirit
When the harm reduction movement emerged, survival was front of mind: Policymakers were leaving drug ...
FDA Blood Donor Ban Ends for Gay Men, While Staying in Place for Others
On August 7, the Red Cross implemented a new blood donor eligibility assessment that ...
Sex Workers Got No Pardons. Decriminalization Is Overdue.
On October 8, President Biden pardoned thousands of people convicted of simple marijuana possession. ...
Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout Reflects Deprioritization of Sex Workers
The monkeypox epidemic isn’t going anywhere, especially for street-based sex workers. NPR reports that ...
