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...

Today, the NYC-based coalition DecrimNY will introduce the most comprehensive decriminalization bill in history into a state legislature. The bill would strike laws which criminalize selling, buying and promoting from NY penal code. While the coalition doesn't anticipate a vote this session...