SEX TRAFFICKING – Dec 17th 2020 is the 17th International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers

NYC’s Sex Work Exhibition Officially Pops Off

on March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 By mgd777

The week-long event will culminate in a town hall with prominent New York politician State Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Bushwick, Cypress Hills, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York) and progressive Tiffany Cabán discussing sex industry reform legislation in New York State.  The Stop Violence in the Sex Trade Act, a package of bills that support the full decriminalization of the entire sex industry not just workers or victims, was first introduced in New York in 2019 by Salazar. It has yet to be passed into law. - Ariama Long TIME

Michelle Rothe’s Murder – Sex Trafficking in Alaska

on March 9, 2019March 16, 2019 By mgd777

While you are listening, please remember that there are currently 11 unsolved murder, missing person, and suspicious death cases of sex workers in Anchorage. You can read more about that in this investigative post on the UnsilencedAK blog. 

December 17th Is About Those Lost To Murder or Suicide

on December 17, 2016April 16, 2017 By mgd777

Coming Out Under The Red Umbrella

on November 6, 2016December 28, 2016 By mgd777

© 2015 M. Dante at The Adult Education Discussion at Philadelphia's Erotic Literary Salon: ADULT SEX EDUCATION DISCUSSION ON SEX WORK AND SEX TRAFFICKING IN ALASKA: Under federal criminal law, sex trafficking must involve force, fraud, coercion, or minors. Alaska’s 2012 sex trafficking law redefines many things related to prostitution as sex trafficking. Things [...]

December 17: Dec 17th 2020 is the 17th International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers

Articles On Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020

In solidarity: What Transgender Day of Remembrance Means in 2020 | Time Magazine Remember the 34 Trans People Murdered in 2020 on Transgender Day Of Remembrance | Elle Magazine

11/20: Trans Day Of Remembrance

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2020

Every five years the United Nations reviews the human rights record of the United States in its totality in a process called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Sex workers and trans people have been able to use this process to bring attention to human rights abuses. Join Penelope Saunders (BPPP), Monica Jones (the Outlaw Project), NJRUA, the Black Sex Worker Collective, and Cris Sardina (Desiree Alliance) to learn about what recommendations our communities would like to see made by the international community when the US is held accountable by the United Nations

UN Trust Fund To End Violence Against Women, Deadline 4 Nov 2020

Call For Proposals: The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women is accepting applications for its 24th grant cycle (2020). Civil society organizations are invited to submit grant proposals for a minimum of US$50,000 up to a maximum of US$1 million for a period of three years.  

Artist hopes life-sized portrait of dead sex worker will haunt the police | News24

Clinton Osbourn created a life-sized portrait of activist and sex worker Robyn Matsumi, who died in police custody