Tag: sex work
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 ...
CA Bill to Decriminalize “Loitering” Spotlights Cops-Turned-Politicians
A 2019 explainer from CalMatters on the difficulties of police reform in Sacramento explained ...
Baltimore Study Boosts Movements to Decriminalize Drugs and Sex Work
Replication is of paramount importance, in the sciences, in determining whether an earlier research ...
Sex Workers No Longer Criminalized for Simply Living With HIV in Nevada
In Nevada, sex workers living with HIV have been uniquely targeted by the state, ...
Federal Watchdog: FOSTA Isn’t Even Useful for Law Enforcement
From the get-go, sex worker activists knew nothing good would come from FOSTA, a ...
