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WEBINAR – DEMYSTIFYING SEX WORK Jan 27th, 2023

Posted on December 30, 2022 at 7:23 pm by / 0
This class is intended for educators, social workers, and mental/health care providers, but is useful for any person who wants to understand sex work and how to prevent exploitation of Sex Workers, and to reduce harm and discrimination among many peoples. I’m honored to be teaching for ISEE and providing tools to earn AASECT CEs.  *REGISTER… Read More
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Blog, Education, sex work, Updates

8 Reasons Why Supporting Sex Workers is Important

Posted on January 31, 2022 at 2:42 am by / 0
Originally featured on MomotaroApotheca.com   Supporting sex workers doesn’t mean you have to become one or become a client. It means having literacy of the reasons why our culture continues to shame, punish, or pathologize those who do engage consensually.   Want to combat human exploitation? Support full decriminalization of prostitution related laws, so that… Read More
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decrim, Education, Oregon, prostitution, Updates

Live Web Panel – Johns Hopkins University + Woodhull Freedom Foundation

Posted on December 1, 2021 at 8:00 pm by / 0
Click Here to Register to Attend the Live Panel – December 3, 2021 – our own OSWC co-chair Biana Beebe is moderating, In collaboration with Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the Oregon Sex Workers’ Committee (OSWC) is honoured to be hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights to discuss the impact of sex… Read More
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Community Activism, Updates

Donate via ActBlue – Oregon Sex Workers Committee

Posted on June 20, 2021 at 9:55 pm by / 0
These funds shall be used to help facilitate and promote the first ever Human Rights Commission for Sex Workers in Oregon!  We have an immediate fundraising goal of $35,000 by July 10th (as of 6.1 we have raised $7,500).  The Oregon Sex Workers Committee is comprised of exclusively Sex Workers. Our goal is the decriminalization… Read More
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Community Activism, HB3088, Updates

Legislative – Informational Hearing on Repealing Prostitution-related offenses – June 3rd, 2021

Posted on May 30, 2021 at 1:16 am by / 0
Our committee was granted a surprise hearing in this legislative session, five of our members spoke for twenty minutes in total about why legislators should repeal crimes of prostitution, commercial sexual solicitation and promoting prostitution. Our other speakers are: Alex Andrews, International Human Rights Advocate, Executive Director SWOP(Sex Worker Outreach Project) Behind Bars, Former BOD… Read More
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Education, Updates

The Wrong Fight: How New Sex Trafficking Laws are Threatening Sex Education and Therapy – Webinar

Posted on May 20, 2020 at 12:00 am by / 0
The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) bills were passed in April 2018 and were purported to be an attempt to decrease sex trafficking. But it didn’t. Learn why. This one-hour webinar is available for purchase on InstituteforSexuality.com     Did you know that your ability to provide… Read More
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I’m a Sex Worker Asking the 9th Circuit Court to Decriminalize Prostitution

Posted on October 23, 2017 at 12:00 am by / 0
For the first time in thirteen years, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is revisiting the legality of full service sex work. The case is ESPLERP vs Gascón, in which three sex workers, one client, and the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project are challenging the state ban on prostitution. I urge… Read More