The 2026 Austin, Tx Anarchist Bookfair was a sweaty and joyful time to connect with comrades around the Central Texas area and local Austinites alike. Many thanks to the organizers from @monkeywrenchatx and @autonomyaustin and all of the tabling comrades—it was such a great crew! The comrades from the DFW Support Committee were there, Space City Anarchists, our local IWW chapter, and some Reproductive Justice zinesters too! Big love as well to @barrettstoo for being great hosts and taking amazing care of us! 🖤 While SxHx didn’t hit our mutual aid fundraising goal for this event, we met dozens of people and got to share about our work and zines and connect with fellow organizers around abortion and hormone access, distributed harm reduction supplies, talked safety strategies while working, and defense campaign support/building!
A lot of people asked us how to get involved, THANK YOU! While we’re still a closed collective (meaning not actively recruiting at this time), there are absolutely ways to support our work, and the movement to destigmatize and decriminalize the sex trades.
Here are a few action moves we suggest:
- Start a reading group with your chosen family and/or co-workers. We recommend to begin sustainably, and be gentle and flexible with each other. Pick a time every other month, read a chapter or an article or watch something together for starters, involve food or drink, and schedule time for both discussion and gossip. You can use our SW Syllabus as a jumping off point, but there’s so much more that’s been published/created since we did those initial readings! Check out (and order from) Red Emma’s list of Sex Work titles!
- Get involved with Harm Reduction organizations. Where’s there solid harm reduction work being done/offered, you can bet sex workers are involved. Nothing says you care like carrying Naloxone/Narcan, drug testing strips, condoms AND knowing how to use them all. Whether clean needle exchange programs, building safer sniffing kits, or learning how to reverse an overdose gets you excited, you’ll be sure to get plugged into decrim and destigmatization work locally. Check out the N.I.C.E. Project, the Texas Harm Reduction Alliance, and the Trans Resistance Project ATX.
- Support our ongoing fundraising efforts. Right now, we’re engaged in a number of grassroots fundraising efforts to support our comrades and co-conspirators. By giving and/or sharing these campaigns, you’re helping us directly reach new communities with our radical whore agenda! If supporting sex working/trading parents and care-givers is your thing, check out our t-shirt drive. A few of our comrades have to pay heavy restitution fees even after doing time in federal prison. You can help them out here. Just want to make sure our crew has what they need? See our “donate” page.
- Support our fellow comrade workers like Massage Parlor workers, Street Vendors, and other criminalized economy trades by showing up when demonstrations are called, defending workers both politically and socially, shutting down racist and classist rhetoric about these workers, and obviously…be a good patron! Read up on the linked orgs that are fighting alongside workers for rights, workplace protections, destigmatization, and an end to police intimidation!
- Hire us, tip us, and pay for your porn. No really…we quite literally need our clientele’s $$$ to exist in this capitalist hellscape. Whether you’re going to the club, signing up for a fan subscription, picking us up, or scheduling a date, be cool, be respectful, be about giving us money!
Chicago, IL & Virtual:
As we mentioned in our last blog post, one of our comrades, Kaia, is launching a peer support group along with other trusted collaborators. They are planning a series of community Jitsi 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. (Jitsi is an end-to-end encrypted video call platform that is free to use.)
The first call will be on Wednesday, April 1st at 6 PM CT.
You must register for the call here, before Wednesday.
Remember dear one, you are not alone.
Where can you find us tabling next?
We’ll be tabling at Gender Unbound’s 2026 Trans Day of Visibility Picnic and Art Market on Saturday, 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 ‘mones, 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. We also heard that their latest Pink Pages directory will be ready for distro! You don’t want to miss out on getting a physical copy of all things TRANS locally!
