Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP): Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago is a Black-led, grassroots organization dedicated to providing direct aid and advocacy for anyone working in the sex industry. SWOP Chicago members are current and former sex workers and sex trafficking survivors working together to promote the autonomy and rights of people in the industry. [Website] [IG]
Support Ho(s)e Collective: The Support Ho(s)e Collective is a small Leftist formation of sex workers (current and former) and trusted co-conspirators. They build a radical community for all sex workers through political education and public agitation and coordinate the Justice for Alisha Walker Defense Campaign. The collective provides resource-based support for grassroots organizing, including lessons learned on building popular defense campaigns for criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, sex worker-centered political education syllabi, planning protests and demonstrations, holding space for in/formal knowledge sharing sessions, and tool-kits on Media and Health/Wellness from sex working perspectives. [Website]
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