COYOTE Media Mentions
2023
Rhode Island can do better than this Senate bill that excludes Asian Spa workers
2023
“International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers” Virtual Memorial #Dec17th
New report details dark side of RI’s criminalization of sex work
COYOTE RI: Support immunity for sex workers reporting crimes
Reimagining the Political Future of Sex Work: An Interview with Bella Robinson
2022
COYOTE 2022 Images – Collage Paper
Four Years Under FOSTA/SESTA Survey
Sex Worker Group Files Amicus Brief Urging DC Circuit Court to Overturn Harmful Sex Trafficking Law?
Rhode Island Policy, Legislation & Media
- Is it time to legalize prostitution in RI?
- Rhode Island Senators Consider Two Paths To Decriminalizing Prostitution
- Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on S2233, S2617 & S2713
- RI’s Bella Robinson fights to legalize prostitution, her profession at age 57
Rhode Island rallies in response to leaked Super Court abortion decision 5/3/22
2021
COYOTE RI’s Sex Worker Story Telling Series Podcasts
Carceral ‘Care’ in Rhode Island’s Anti-Trafficking Industry
Recent prostitution raids demonstrate how anti-prostitution rhetoric harms victims
Sex workers fight for Study Commission to examine criminalization of sex work in Rhode Island
R.I. sex workers seek legislative change
Rhode Island community members turn to mutual aid, direct outreach during the pandemic
COYOTERI’s chapter “Organizing Under Criminalization: Policing and Sex Worker Rights in Rhode Island” has been published in “Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston”
2020
Lecture at Rutgers Dec 14th, 2020
Open Letter to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
COYOTE RI Stands in Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
The fight to decriminalize sex work- May 2020
No Safety Net For RI Sex Workers In Pandemic
Sex workers are stressed, anxious and depressed amid COVID-19 pandemic
Celebrating International Sex Workers Rights Day at the Dark Lady with Coyote RI
Sex Workers Enter The National Landscape As Presidential Candidates Consider Sex Work-Study
2019
Coyote RI 2019 Fact Sheet –Coyote RI At A Glance
The History of Sex Work Law in Rhode Island
NERC Amnesty Decrim Policy 2019 presentation
FROM DECRIM TO RECRIM- Ten years of recriminalized indoor sex work in Rhode Island
10 Years After Re-Criminalization, slideshow
Sex Work Is a Hot and Messy 2020 Political Issue
Critics of criminal prostitution laws urge changes at R.I. House hearing
The New Virtual Crackdown on Sex Workers’ Rights: Perspectives from the United States
Bella Robinson – COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) Talks #Decrim #SexWorkIsRealWork–
COYOTE-RI Interviews Scott Cunningham- Baylor University-
How Many Sex Trafficking Headlines are Bogus? Lots of them!
No, on RI S0096: Adult Entertainment Performance Tax 02/18/2019
Does entering prostitution mean you have seven years to live?
Robert Kraft, Meet Bella Robinson!
Bella Robinson – Executive Director COYOTE RI – Decriminalizing sex work. Interview with the Matt Allen radio show
Global Implications Of FOSTA, By Meghan Peterson (3rd place winner of Slixa’s essay contest)