Sex Trade Support
- Lysistrata has an emergency fund for people in the sex trade. The emergency fund aims to help people not have to make decisions out of desperation that may make them more vulnerable.
- Stroll is a Portland-based project by and for people in the sex trade. Stroll runs a sex worker support group, an art and film fest, puts on talent shows and field days, and has a zine project.
- St. James Infirmary is a peer based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers and their families. SJI provides primary care, STI testing and care, support groups, leadership groups, needle exchange, trainings, counseling and more and SJI also advocates about political issues impacting sex workers and their families.
- SWOP Behind Bars provides re-entry support for sex workers coming out of prison, connects imprisoned sex workers with pen-pals, sends newsletters into prisons, advocates against criminalization of people in the sex trade, and more.
- Young Women’s Empowerment Project was an organization supporting young women in the sex trade that closed, but that created many useful resources you can still find, such as this report on their work and this report. Find more about their work here.
- Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and organizing group led by stimulant and opioid using low-income, survival, or street-based sex workers.
- Red Canary supports grassroots organizing of migrant sex workers, focused on Chinese community massage parlor workers in New York City. Below is a video they made about their organizing after a worker was killed during a police raid of a parlor.
- SWAID Vegas is a sex worker led organization that provides mutual aid support for sex workers in Vegas (and beyond when possible). It is a sister organization of the Sex Worker’s Alliance of Nevada (SWAN).