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Louisiana – thanks to the incredible work of Women with a Vision – has become the third jurisdiction to introduce decriminalization legislation in the United States with HB 366.

In the still-cold months of every year, as state legislatures start to stir again, many lawmakers across the country are about to pop their heads out into the air, look around to see if we'll have 3 more months of whorephobia. Fort Wayne decides swingers clubs and strip clubs are crucial problem.

In 1980 the Rhode Island General Assembly changed prostitution laws in an attempt to make them more specific. In the process, they created a legislative loophole that lasted almost 30 years outlawing street prostitution but essentially making indoor prostitution legal.

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...

For Sex Workers, (who are often highly criminalized) facial recognition could have detrimental and devastating effects to our abilities to make a living and provide for ourselves and our families. In many ways, we are already having to make a lot of these decisions around privacy and safety.

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...