Our hearts remain with our siblings at home and abroad who are fighting for a better world—and for their very lives. It feels impossibly hard to find moments of connection, to carry on with the daily tasks and events of organizing, let alone to keep seeking joy… and yet, we need each other more than ever.
We need sex workers, criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, and all our comrades in struggle to know how deeply we are needed here on this earth. And not “needed” in that hollow, use-based way (like so many of us have learned in the capitalist hellscape of both work and, unfortunately, some movement spaces), where our value is tied solely to our output—but truly needed just as we are: alive, messy, loving, and trying our best.
We’re still here, and we’re with you in struggle. Keep loving, keep fighting.
Austin, Tx: We’ll be tabling at this year’s Austin Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday, March 21st from Noon to 6PM at 103 North Loop (Barrett’s Too). For more details on the talks and workshops, visit this link. We’re looking to connect with other Central Texas anarchist sex workers–if you feel comfy connecting in this way, please stop by and say, “Howdy!”
We’ll also be tabling at Gender Unbound’s 2026 Trans Day of Visibility Picnic and Art Market on March 28th from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM at Grassroots Leadership (7910 Cameron Road)!
We’ll have our full line of zines, books, homebrew, and harm reduction supplies! Help us replenish our mutual aid funds! The more zines we sell, the more money we can move to our sex working community members in need.
Chicago, IL & Virtual: One of our comrades is planning a series of community calls to support sex workers and our co-conspirators who are struggling with processing / coping in the wake of the “Epstein Files” atrocities, and news surrounding them.
Please stay tuned for a call schedule announcement and registration details.
You’re not alone.
NYC: We are so thrilled to announce that we got into Black Zine Fair, y’all!!! Black members of Support Ho(s)e will be tabling on May 9th at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, NY alongside two of our trusted collaborators Sula Found & Bodies Too Bare! We’ll have our full range of zines, books we’ve contributed to, harm reduction supplies and merch! We hope you come through and support this powerful and gorgeous event, and all of the Black zinesters tabling! Remember, some of the titles we distro are also down for trades!!!
Next month, on April 28th, we’ll be attending a virtual 10 YEAR celebration of a comrade org we’ve been so grateful to partner, build and learn with over the years. Please join us in celebrating our wins and holding space to also grieve our losses.
From our beloved comrade, MK, in Survived & Punished:
In 2016, we co-founded Survived and Punished (S&P), a national formation that includes survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts, scholars, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. S&P organizes to de-criminalize efforts to survive domestic and sexual violence, support and free criminalized survivors, and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations. S&P has affiliates in New York, Chicago, and California. It was co-founded by organizers from the Stand With Nan-Hui defense campaign, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Love & Protect (then known as Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander), and the national Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign.
Our work is rooted in the fact that racialized aspects of gender violence and gendered aspects of mass criminalization have generally been overlooked. We believe that carcerality is a strategy that does not attend to the root causes of violence or other social problems. Rather, it simply disposes of those individuals that represent these problems. This is in large part why we reject criminalization.
It’s been 10 years since we launched Survived and Punished and in that time we have helped to free people from prison/jail, supported currently incarcerated survivors, and changed the narrative about criminalized survival.
Join us virtually on April 28th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm ET to celebrate our collective accomplishments and to mourn our losses. Register here: https://survivedpunished10years.eventbrite.com