COYOTE Blog
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International Sex Worker Rights Day 2022
International Sex Worker Rights Day History: This day’s history goes back to 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a festival despite efforts from prohibitionist groups who tried to prevent it taking place by pressuring the government to revoke their permit. The event was organized by Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a Calcutta…
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Recent Prostitution Raids Demonstrate how Anti-Prostitution Rhetoric Harms Victims
On June 17th Cranston Police and the Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE, carried out coordinated raids on six Asian Spas. A recent episode of The Blue Campaign featured an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent and a representative from the National Human Trafficking Hotline explaining how the Human Trafficking Hotline assists ICE. Clips…
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REST IN POWER MARGO ST. JAMES
With profound sadness, COYOTE announces the death of the most storied among our founders, Margo St. James, the founder of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), the organization that was the germinating force of the movement for sex workers’ rights, died on January 12th, 2021 at age 83. She had been in hospice for…
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What Are Your COVID Rules?
If you can’t stay locked down forever, what should you do? Again, I want to specify that in this essay I am saying *What I will do and what I think is wise. You will obviously, have to make your own choices and take your own actions. The basic question to ask yourself is this…
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COYOTE RI Stands in Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
COYOTE RI fully supports #BlackLivesMatter protestors and all other anti-racism activists who have taken to the streets across the country after the tragic murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, Tony McDade, and countless other members of the black community. We stand with the families and all other victims of structural…
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Coyote RI 2020 Policy Agenda
This Policy Agenda promotes a rights-based approach, whereby consenting adults in the sex industry are neither perpetrators in need of punishment nor victims in need of rescue, but rather individuals with rights who are free to make their own choices about their bodies and sexual behavior guaranteed all human rights and civil liberties,…