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The Flags of Pride
June is Pride Month, when the world’s LGBTQIA+ communities come together and celebrate the freedom to be themselves. Pride gatherings are...
Swop Behind Bars
Jun 2, 20238 min read
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Sigma and Stereotypes - Media Portrayal of PLWHIV
Media outlets often use extreme or exaggerated cases that are sensationalized, stigmatizing, and inaccurate that, as one collaborator...
Lydia Babcock
May 26, 20236 min read
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Legacy of Love
In Loving Memory of Carol Leigh, 1951-2022 On Saturday, May 20the, 2023, the world of sex workers joined together to celebrate the life...
Hunter Leight
May 26, 20232 min read
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Disney Does DeSantis
Florida has always been a little wacky in its policies and legislation but there has never been such a public and vitreous spat between...
Swop Behind Bars
May 22, 20235 min read
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The Clinic to Prison Pipeline
Society demonstrates the ways in which public identity and the politics of disgust are internalized and externalized through criminal...
Lydia Babcock
May 12, 202316 min read
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Fight For Nikki
Anyways, Niki has had a terrible turn of luck. A few weeks ago, Niki noticed tingling in her toes. Eventually, she started having a hard...
Swop Behind Bars
May 6, 20232 min read
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Oh Feminism, Where Art Thou?
From the Editor: On April 6th, 2018, Backpage was seized by the Federal Government of the United States and millions of sex workers...
Swop Behind Bars
Apr 23, 20234 min read
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Solutions for Defeating Performative DEI
With the expansion of DEI efforts and commitments from both for profit and non-profit organizations and corporations, we have seen a...
Swop Behind Bars
Mar 26, 20237 min read
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The Best of Intentions
“Community engagement” is a buzzword that is technically defined as a way of working that recognizes and values community members as...
Swop Behind Bars
Mar 18, 20236 min read
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The Internet that Porn Built
Many folks don’t remember the time before the internet… but if you bring up the sound of dialup AOL Messenger at a party, you will not...
Swop Behind Bars
Mar 8, 20235 min read
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Guide to Hiring Sex Workers and Survivors
Strategies on hiring that will benefit your company! Traditional employment - or as we say in sex work language - “vanilla” or “straight”...
Swop Behind Bars
Mar 2, 20236 min read
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Facts We All Need to Know About the Intersections of Race and Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration is a highly complex issue that has deep, historical roots. Paired with considerations around racial inequity, it...
Swop Behind Bars
Feb 27, 20234 min read
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Super Bowl Hangover
Every year, a remarkable thing happens: Like clockwork, as the Super Bowl approaches, anti-trafficking organizations trot out the same...
Swop Behind Bars
Feb 19, 20235 min read
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8 Tips for Achieving Work/Life Balance
Balancing work, and life has special challenges. The buzzword for the past couple of years have been “self care”, and everyone...
Swop Behind Bars
Jan 27, 20235 min read
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Trauma
What is Trauma? Trauma is defined by FHE Health as the result of an event that is particularly jarring for someone, whether it’s...
Swop Behind Bars
Jan 21, 20233 min read
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See How They Run
A recent article in the Orlando Sun Sentinel in Florida exposed something that literally everyone has always known is going on, but no...
Swop Behind Bars
Dec 13, 20228 min read
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Ad Nauseum
As December 17th approaches and sex workers around the world mourn the loss of our fall comrades, we would like to, once again, reiterate...
Swop Behind Bars
Dec 8, 20223 min read
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Laborious Choices
The Narrative and the Truth The coronavirus pandemic changed so much about the way we work — the momentum behind remote work, shortened...
Swop Behind Bars
Nov 19, 20225 min read
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Tell It To The Judge
The Extraordinary Power of the Judicial System Judges in criminal cases wield extraordinary power and in many cases, hold a great deal of...
Swop Behind Bars
Sep 13, 20229 min read
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10 Questions to ask a Human Trafficking Organization...
Before You send them your money! Human Trafficking is a “hot topic” in the social justice arena, and you’d have to have been living under...
Swop Behind Bars
Aug 24, 202210 min read
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