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.