Last week, a stunning report was released pointing to new polling data that 52% of voters support decriminalization of both buyers and sellers of sexual services. The issue now is garnering support akin to other progressive topics such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

Mayo Pete provides more evidence that he's not going to be on the cutting edge of support for sex workers when he cancels a fundraiser at a gay nightclub in Providence, RI after finding out the club had a pole.

For the last ten years, January has been declared "Human Trafficking Awareness Month." To try and crack into news cycles dedicated to this – which are regularly dominated by police press releases and bizarre community art events – the website Open Democracy is doing a series of pieces...

This last year has been nothing short of a sea change in sex workers' rights in the United States. The decades of building community, and developing our shared language and framework has foregrounded an unprecedented level of attention on the subject of sex workers' lives.

On December 17, some members of Congress marked the day with a landmark bill, asking the Department of Health and Human Services to look into the impact of sex workers' health and safety when they lose access to online platform.

This week marks the 16th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and communities across the globe are taking Tuesday to honor those we have lost this year, and highlight the ways that sex workers are vulnerable to violence...

In the biggest sex work news of the last two weeks, Rep. Ayanna Pressley called for full decriminalization of sex work in a resolution titled, The People's Justice Guarantee. Resolutions are pieces of non-binding legislation which express a sentiment on an issue. This resolution also calls for...

On Friday, sex workers came together to present Hacking/Hustling, a day-long conference that explored tech, trafficking, SESTA/FOSTA and social change and it's worth spending as long as it takes to go through what was shared...

The largest story from the last two weeks was the DC City Council's hearing on decriminalization of the sex trade after years of work from the Sex Workers Action Coalition. But the day became a who’s who of anti-sex work groups sharing misinformation and fear mongering.

On October 10, nine of the presidential candidates participated in a town hall focused on LGBTQ+ issues, hosted by LGBTQ organization Human Rights Campaign. Sanders fumbled (yet again) Klobuchar stayed her course, and Warren gently opened a door to decriminalization conversation.

Sex Workers Have Their Own Heroes: Only adding to the canon of amazing sex worker representations which we've seen this year, Tina Horn and DC Comics released "SFSX," a comic book featuring a freedom-fighting sex worker.

The movie is based on a true story recounted by Roselyn Keo, Wu's character, which has been disputed by Lopez's character, the real-life Samantha Foxx/Barbash, who plans to write her own version of events. But none the less, the film is already getting early Oscar buzz.

Last week an explosive article from Elizabeth Nolan Brown detailed the extent to which the government know the claims about Backpage were political myths. Prediction: Sen. Kamala Harris, who tried to prosecute the CEOs as California Attorney's General, will not comment.

Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren released their platforms on criminal legal reform, and while both included general reforms which would impact the lives of people who trade sex, neither mentioned sex work, either in terms of decriminalization or FOSTA/SESTA.

This week Bernie Sanders released his platform on criminal legal reform. Absent was any mention of sex work or decriminalization. Activist and DecrimNY member Jessica Raven shares some thoughts on the lack of consideration for people who trade sex in the platform.

This year's Operation Cross Country sting took the entire month of July. While the FBI announced that, because of the disparate numbers of arrests versus identification of victims they were "reconsidering" the program, they simply re-branded as Operation Independence Day, with the same results.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has weighed in on the subject of sex work decrim: "During her visit to the Elmhurst Greenmarket, [she] spoke with the Queens Eagle: “I think it’s something that I think should happen, but we have to be very careful about it,” she said about decriminalizing sex work.

The Queens, NY District Attorney race continues to trudge on between pro-decrim, former public defender Tiffany Caban and pro-real estate development candidate Melinda Katz. The results of the election were close enough to trigger a recount, which wrapped up with Katz in the lead by 60

Joe Biden continued his trend of being unsurprising by saying he doesn't support the decriminalization of sex work. Also this week, Business Insider did a great wrap up on the massive failure that is SESTA-FOSTA, including how much it has not curbed trafficking.

This week Jeffrey Epstein, a politically connected billionaire, was arrested on charges of trafficking of minors for sex. Because they were underage, the court doesn't need to prove that anyone was coerced or forced. Allegations include rape with physical force, but those aren't in the charges.

SB233 in California mirrors a similar policy already passed in San Francisco and a brand new law in Washington state. Interested in getting something like this in your city? Alix Lutnick, a brilliant researcher and author, wrote about the process of getting the policy through in San Francisco.

This last weekend was the wrap up of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, with weekend-long celebrations in cities from San Francisco to Montgomery, Alabama to New York. The story of sex work has always been an important part of the story of LGBTQ liberation, and a recent poll found...

Add TeenVogue to the list of amazing publications talking decrim! And in a reminder that decrim is clearly the right thing to support, Don Jr. has come out against the article. In response, we should all definitely come out against his new beard.

In 2017 Layleen had been arrested on soliciting charges by an undercover. In New York, everyone facing prostitution charges goes through the "Human Trafficking Intervention Courts," and are supposed to be diverted to services - but not without the threat of punishment hanging over you...