We can’t stress enough how crucial it is to find your people in this moment. Whether that looks like organizing your building, block or workplace, connecting with friends and family to make strategic plans about y’all’s future well-being, and/or finding an political formation to link up with…we know we’ll only survive this onslaught together. Sex Workers know and practice this all the time, learn from us: get organized, find safer methods of communication that work for you and yours, have a plan(s), and stay ready.
On this note, we love this recent Movement Memos episode, “We Live in Fearful Times. Our Safety Comes Through Preparing Together.”, from our comrade, Kelly Hayes and their guest, Che Johnson-Long. Listen to and/or read it here.
Our comrade Red recently spoke with anarchist author and movement historian, Peter Gelderloos, for his latest piece at Truthout, “Trump’s Censorship Campaign Draws on Decades of Infrastructure Built by Big Tech” to discuss legacies of criminalization, censorship and sex worker led resistance.
Collective-wide Updates!
- Texas, New Mexico, Chicago & Beyond! Ángel needs your support! The Free All Dykes crew recently shared this update: On April 25th, a little over two weeks ago, Ángel, a trans undocumented immigrant and political prisoner in ICE custody, was transferred without warning from Prarieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas to Otero Processing Camp in New Mexico. In the process, hir few possessions (and commissary/phone funds) were “lost” by the staff at Prarieland. This includes medical necessities — namely, hir binders. She needs funds to replace hir lost possessions and binder — and for commissary, phone calls, electronic messaging, shipping costs, and a small suitcase filled with toiletries & clothes for when she lands to Chile. American prisons are extortionate institutions, and ICE concentration camps are no exception. Most of the women inside the centers don’t have anyone on the outside who can add to their commissary, and they rely on people who are willing to redistribute the resources they have access to — your donations have helped feed & comforted dozens of detained women in addition to Ángel.
- Austin, Tx & Beyond! Our comrade Kaia is still gathering stories, secrets, memories and oral histories. Have something you need to share with another SWer? Want to get something off your chest or vent? Just need a kind ear to hold space for you? Holy Heaux is a memoir project dreamt up and led by one of our ATX comrades, and will serve as a memory project for sex workers to talk or write about anything they desire. There will be options to share in written form or audio– all submissions can be anonymous, or under any preferred name. For more details, and to submit content, visit this link.
- Ohio! Our Comrade LiRose has opened a dancer’s and spicy workers boutique in Akron! You can shop for work and performance apparel now at Intoxicating Rose located at 49 N Case Ave! Shop local and support sex worker owned small businesses! Check out the above video of her recent inventory!
- Chicago, IL!
- Looking to get involved in the struggle to support sex workers and criminalized survivors in Illinois? Check out DecrimIL!
- Want to snag our latest zines and meet our crew? We’ll be tabling again at this year’s Chicago Zine Fest on Saturday, July 19, 2025, 11 am to 4 pm
at the Harold Washington Library Center’s Winter Garden, 9th Floor! Zine fests are how we primarily raise our no-strings-attached mutual aid funds, buy our lit! - Chicago Community Jail Support needs more volunteers! Please visit tinyurl.com/chicommunityjailsupport to get plugged in with the team!
- Our collective’s International Whores Day community gathering and picnic, will be held on Monday, June 2nd from 4:30pm – 7pm in Palmer Square Park in Chicago. All SWers and our chosen family are welcome to attend. Please bring a dish or drink to share. We’ll bring picnic blankets, some staple proteins, and paper goods. We’ll also have free harm reduction supplies / resources available, and copies of our zines. Join us to rest, reset, rage, and feast!
