International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers- 10 Years of Organizing Under Criminalization In 2003, renowned sexologist, educator, and former sex worker Annie Sprinkle organized the first “International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers.” Today we mourn for the 48 sex workers who were lost to violence in 2019 and we renew our …
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International Sex Workers’ Rights 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 from taking place by pressuring the government to revoke their permit. Sex worker groups across the world have subsequently celebrated the day as International …
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Let’s unpack this headline Robert Kraft’s Prostitution Arrest Isn’t Just A Tabloid Scandal — Especially For The Women There is no evidence that the women were trafficked, or lured in with the promise of other jobs. Let’s not forget when the K girls were arrested in Seattle, the cops said these women just don’t understand …
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UPDATE JULY 13, 2020 Judge Allows Professors’ Libel Case Against Ex-Students to Go Forward Updated September 2020. The smoking gun. The following 2 legal briefs prove that the 2 women made up all the accusations against the John Jay College professors so they could try to discredit their research that was published in …
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Let’s take a closer look at how the media covered this story. 7 NY police officers have been arrested for running 8 NY brothels. They used women from Central America and yet the media doesn’t mention the word trafficking. This shows how much prosecutors and the police control the narrative in the media, because …
COYOTE August 2018 Newsletter Happy August! We’ve had a busy month planning new campaigns and partnering with other community organizations in Rhode Island, nationally, and globally. In this newsletter, we’ll talk about COYOTE-RI’s work both nationally and in the community, research findings and a report back on sex worker-led actions from #AIDS2018 in Amsterdam, as …
Did Congress really think that Sex Workers were gonna just lay down? I have always said that sex workers are some of the most resilient people I know. Last week Bella Robinson, executive director of Coyote RI (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) attended a historical US sex worker Summit in LA. It was awesome. Coyote RI was …
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Coyote RI surveyed 63 RI sex workers from 2014-2016, and 24% of them reported being robbed, raped or assaulted by the police
BORDER COACHING –for Canadian & USA/International models traveling to/from the United States I travel a decent amount, and the more you travel alone, the more they are likely to question you at the border. I heard a few models were turned away at the US border last year when trying to attend XBIZ Miami from …