Category Archives: Events

TOMORROW!!  Join us at Noon @ Chicago’s Water Tower Place for SlutWalk Chicago 2018 to learn about Alisha Walker’s case, how to show up for (incarcerated) sex workers and be vocal/bold in fighting whorephobia and Whore stigma! Look for our big banners!

Tuesday, July 24th @ 12 pm – 1 pm Central Hashtags: #NotLoiteringJustLiving #RahmVeto #LetUsSurvive Background: On June 27th, 2018 Chicago alderpeople voted in an amendment to the Municipal Code 8-4-016 which will create the offense of  “prostitution-related loitering,” defined as “remaining in any one place under circumstances that would warrant a reasonable person to believeContinue reading “#NotLoiteringJustLiving Twitter Power Hour & Town Hall!”

https://www.facebook.com/events/621510764887826/ CHICAGO! We’ll be repping Alisha and the Support Ho(s)e collective at this year’s Slutwalk Chicago 2018! We’ll have zines for commissary donations and banners that need holding! Look for the Justice for Alisha Walker banner and red umbrellas!

A huge thank you to the Chicago Community Bond Fund for inviting the Support Ho(s)e collective and our comrades to lead a teach-in (shout out to our co-presenter LL!) on the intersections of sex worker advocacy and money bail/prison abolition. We covered the basics of Sex Work 101, expanded on current dangerous criminalizing legislation andContinue reading “Chicago Community Bond Fund”

Much love and support to our accomplices in the struggle for collective liberation!  From A Tribe Called Cxnt:  “We are really excited to announce that a portion of the proceeds from the marketplace is going to Justice for Alisha Walker. We know how crucial it is to support sex workers under this current administration and everyContinue reading “A Tribe Called Cunt”

TODAY begins the #SayHerName 2018 Week of Action coordinated by BYP 100! Check out https://byp100.lpages.co/sayhername2018/ for how to get involved and where to find local actions! 

On Sunday June 10th we led a “Sex Work 101″ talk for Survived & Punished NYC! We discussed intentional, accurate, nuanced language and how to support criminalized survivors who have also traded or sold sex. Survived & Punished comrades asked thoughtful and excellent questions, made us feel supported, and we collectively brainstormed ways to become active inContinue reading “Sex Work 101”

Yesterday, International Whores Day, was truly incredible. An action some of us had only dreamed of for years, brought about in a time of rage of necessary resilience in opposition to SESTA/FOSTA, criminalization and police. The organizing, and planning was daunting, even for those of us who were experienced at street protests. We had almostContinue reading “Stop the War on the Whores”

Going to International Whores Day NYC direct action on June 2nd? Come make your posters, shirts, and whatever else you dream up on May 30th! Some supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. Click through the image for event details! 

May 22nd: Join us for an evening of conversation, community, and figure drawing at House or Darker at Lot 45 in BK. We are raising $ for Lysistrata, a SW mutual care fund and making images to signal boost and sell for International Whore’s Day. Red from Support Ho(s)e will be leading a conversation “The Whore Gazes Back,”Continue reading “Fundraiser for Lysistrata”

Our comrade Erica, reading a poem that Alisha wrote for her mama Sherri on Saturday, May 12th, at the Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration  5th annual Vigil for Incarcerated Mothers. Many formerly incarcerated mothers and their loved ones shared their stories, and participants uplifted and honored mothers who have been separated from their children byContinue reading “Alisha’s Poem Reading”

https://www.facebook.com/events/1880122642032641/ Join L&SS at our May General Meeting! We’ll be discussing May Day, the NYC-DSA convention, and sex worker organizing. Speakers will include Melissa Gira Grant, senior reporter at Fair Punishment and author of Playing the Whore, and Red, a community organizer with the Support Ho(s)e collective, Survived & Punished NYC and Survivors Against SESTA.Continue reading “L&SS General Meeting: Organizing Sex Workers”

Join Moms United and co-sponsoring orgs for our 5th annual Mother’s Day vigil and toiletry drive outside Cook County Jail, on the green, directly across from the main visitor’s gate. The median on which we hold the vigil is accessible insofar as there is no incline or stairs, but the ground can be difficult toContinue reading “5th Annual Mother’s Day Vigil”

Tonight! Join our NYC comrades in Brooklyn for a much needed fundraiser for Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective Fund! We’ll also be talking about our organizing efforts for International Whores Day on June 2nd! 

One of our collective members will be presenting a poem Alisha wrote for her mama Sherri at this year’s Incarcerated Mother’s Day! This will be our third year talking about our work to free our comrade, and the complexities of care-giving and sex working! You’ll recognize the piece being read as a part of LeLe’sContinue reading “Incarcerated Mother’s Day”

June 2nd, International Whores Day (also known as Día Internacional de las Putxs, PutaDei, International Sex Workers Day, Día Internacional de la Trabajadorx Sexual) is a day to gather sex working people, their co-conspirators, accomplices, loved ones and communities together in protest to demand an immediate cessation of police and state violence, the end ofContinue reading “International Whores’ Day 2018”

We were so excited to table at Survived & Punished’s Mass Commutations Convening “Free Them All” in NY this past weekend at Barnard! Got to connect with comrades who are doing crucial grassroots defense campaign work and building toward mass commutation efforts in California and New York. We spoke with folx about dangerous new criminalizing anti-sexContinue reading “Survived & Punished’s Mass Commutations Convening “Free Them All” in NY”

Hey y’all! Join us tomorrow at Survived & Punished’s NYC “Free Them All: A Mass Commutations Convening” to support and learn about the work of getting folx free! We’ll be tabling with literature, zines, petitions, and new comics for sale supporting our comrade, Alisha Walker. 

FEMINIST ZINE FEST NYC ROUND UP! Sunday a jammed packed day! There were hundreds of amazing feminist babes who came out in droves to swap and share and snag zines from dozens of amazing zinesters at this year’s NYC Feminist Zine Fest! Eternal love and thanks to @jonastygram1 for always letting Support Ho(s)e table crash, @grl_trbl for the great companyContinue reading “NYC Feminist Zinefest”

Sex workers, survivors, accomplices and academic community supporters rallied and distributed ACCURATE information about sex work and decriminalization to debunk “Rescue Industry” myths last week!  Here’s some of our community flyering outside of DePaul’s College of Law which was hosting an anti-sex worker event entitled “Why Legalizing Prostitution Promotes Sex Trafficking” on March 22nd.  Security repeatedlyContinue reading “Shots from the action at DePaul!”

A flyer for tomorrow’s CHICAGO action!  Sex Workers & Survivors United!  Join sex workers, survivors, accomplices and community supporters as we rally and distribute ACCURATE information about sex work and decriminalization and debunk “Rescue Industry” myths! We are rallying outside of DePaul’s College of Law because they are hosting an anti-sex worker event entitled “WhyContinue reading “Sex Work Is Work”

Thanks Hunter College for such a great event! Joint presentation from Red, an organizer with Support Ho(s)e and Liz from The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center for “Common Time” at Hunter College’s School of Social Work. We got to share a sex worker centered toolkit Support Ho(s)e published last year for HealthContinue reading “Sex Work & Social Work Disrupting Institutional Violence”

Join sex workers, survivors, accomplices and community supporters as we rally and distribute ACCURATE information about sex work and decriminalization and debunk “Rescue Industry” myths! We are rallying outside of DePaul’s College of Law because they are hosting an anti-sex worker event entitled “Why Legalizing Prostitution Promotes Sex Trafficking.” More details about this terrible eventContinue reading “Sex Workers & Survivors United Against “Rescue Industry” Narratives”

So much love to the NYC Shut It Down crew who held their most recent #PeoplesMonday in honor of Yang Song! The images and videos of their march through Flushing, Queens were so powerful. Thank you for lifting up sex working people, demanding decriminalization of our labor and calling for an end to police terrorContinue reading “#PeoplesMonday”

TONIGHT! NYC/Queens!  Join us as we take to the streets with NYC Shut It Down: The Grand Central Crew #blacklivesmatter in memory of our fallen fellow worker Yang Song!  We demand and end to police raids, we demand full decriminalization of all sex work now! Cops out of massage parlors! Join us at tonight’s People’s Monday at 7 PMContinue reading “NYC Shut It Down: The Grand Central Crew”

For our rights, for our community, for radical care. Join NYC sex workers, service providers and trusted accomplices to celebrate this International Sex Workers’ Rights Day for an afternoon of organizing, knowledge sharing and resource provision. Lunch, metro cards and childcare provided. Location: Urban Justice Center, 40 Rector St. 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM RSVPContinue reading “International Sex Workers’ Rights Day”

https://teamup.com/ksohpqfbt3imk5w357 This calendar is an attempt to centralize all SW specific events in one spot for NYC and all the Burroughs. Please reach out if you want an event added!

Thank you to all who came out to support Ceyenne!! The judge’s ruling was an Adjourned for Consideration of Dismissal in the next 6 months. We will keep folx posted about how to continue to support Ceyenne. This was good news, even if she has to wait for the dismissal. It’s a break from theContinue reading “Justice for Ceyenne”

Tomorrow we’re meeting with International Women’s Strike US/ Paro Internacional de Mujeres EUANYC organizers to hopefully have more sex working people represented in their strike efforts! Thursday in NYC we’ll be at the Community Gathering & Court Support for Ceyenne! Thursday in Chicago we’ll be at Building Towards Freedom: Invisible No More w/ Andrea Ritchie, LaSaia Wade, &Continue reading “Updates!”

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RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1183516328417662/ Andrea Ritchie will lead a teach-in based on her latest book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, a timely examination of how women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing individual stories in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violenceContinue reading “Join Love & Protect for a conversation with Andrea Ritchie, LaSaia Wade, and Eisha Love!”

https://www.facebook.com/events/2064160603609036/ We are helping to coordinate and build this community action to support our sister and community leader Ceyenne Doroshow! Please come through if you are NY based!  On the night of December 18th, one of our community leaders, elders and advocates, Ceyenne was attacked by a long time abuser and had to defend herself.Continue reading “Community Gathering & Court Support for Ceyenne!”

We’ve got a lot of events we’re involved with in both Chicago & NYC/Brooklyn coming up and wanted to centralize our calendar here: Launch meeting of Survived & Punished NY chapter: December 10th 1-4pm  Survived & Punished Webinar: Year End Updates & Discussion: Online, December 14th 7pm Emergency Rally for our Fallen Comrade Yang Song: Queens,Continue reading “Upcoming Events”

Amazing turn out at our holiday card writing party for incarcerated sex workers! In total about 20 people joined us to send cards to over 50 of over incarcerated fam. Many thanks to @bluestockings for space and @swopbehindbars for contact names/addresses!  This holiday season, send cards to incarcerated sex workers! Show folx inside some love, and let them knowContinue reading “Holiday Card Writing Party”

***THIS EVENT IS IN NYC*** Join the NYC contigent of Support Ho(s)e and accomplices for an afternoon of holiday card writing/making for our incarcerated sex worker family. December 1st, meet at Bluestockings Books at 2PM-4PM and please feel free to bring card making supplies if you’re feeling creative! We’ll be sending letters and cards of love toContinue reading “Holiday Cards”

Thanks to all who held space out in the cold with us! #rightsnotrescue #fuckwhorephobia #sexworkiswork

Join sex workers and allies outside of the ‘Harms of Pornography’ conference, to voice resistance to the idea that sex work is inherently damaging, and that it promotes/motivates misogyny, and to provide more nuanced perspectives to those who wish to engage with us. The conference headliners are notoriously sex-shaming (particularly of BDSM/kink) and sex work-negative,Continue reading “Harms of Pornography”

Hey y’all! We’re gonna host a Twitter Power Hour on Sunday, October 1st from 1-2pm EST for Alisha! Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/supporthosechi to participate by retweeting, liking or tweeting your own content! Here are some sample Tweets for you to use, edit or inspire your own responses! ****** #AlishaWalker is being punished for surviving anContinue reading “HO POWER HOUR”

Hey y’all! One of our organizers, Sophie, will be speaking at this event! Sophie Bee is a writer, speaker, activist, and queer trans woman. She is an organizer with Support Ho(s)e, a radical collective of sex workers, clients, and trusted accomplices building community in Chicago. Support Ho(s)e also runs the Justice For Alisha Walker campaign (https://www.facebook.com/StandWithAlisha/)Continue reading “The Girl Talk: Gender Is A Drag Edition at The Hideout”

One of our organizers spoke at #SlutWalkChi about Alisha’s case and the need to center sex working people in anti-victim blaming, anti-slut shaming movements. During this event, one of our comrades was assaulted and arrested by the CPD, here’s a fundraiser supporting them: https://fundrazr.com/51GvGe You can also preorder a sticker in support of Lee here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/538648986/preorder-free-lee-stickerContinue reading “SlutWalk Chicago”

Very excited to be tabling at ZINEmercado – the Logan Square Independent Zine Fest! We’ll have zines and more merch benefiting our friend and collective member, Alisha Walker! See y’all Sunday!

We are excited to announce this roundtable discussion on July 16, 2017 with Red Schulte and the Support Ho(s)e organization to learn about their efforts to build a radical community for sex workers in Chicago, calling for the decriminalization of prostitution and demanding that sex workers, along with ALL workers, are guaranteed a full rangeContinue reading “COMFORT SOCIETY: THE POLITICS OF SEX WORK”

We will be facilitating this discussion, come thru!

This day, back in 1975, over 100 sex workers occupied the St. Nizier church in Lyon, France to demand respect, better working conditions and an end to police harassment/brutality. They held their occupation for 8 days. Since then sex workers all over the world, primarily in India, have kept this day alive and fighting! TodayContinue reading “HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WHORES’ DAY!”

Our Support Ho(s)e organized event Hos At Hideout was such a success! We could not have done it without y’all’s support! All told we raised over $800 for LeLe, her family and our organizing efforts!!! We danced, sang and lifted up those who couldn’t be with us because of state violence. Special thanks to GRÜN WASSER, The Stranger & Fake Limbs forContinue reading “Hos At Hideout”

The following are prepared remarks from one of our organizers, Red, who participated in last night’s “Sanctuary Dinner & Dialogue.” Red is also one of the artists being featured in the exhibition “Sanctuary: Art Exploring Refuge, Community, and Resistance” curated by the UIC’s Gender & Sexuality Center. In my piece, “The things that people sayContinue reading “Sanctuary Dinner & Dialogue”

The following are remarks from one of our organizers, Red, at today’s demonstration in solidarity with Native & Indigenous resistance. Red improved a bit in person, but their core message is the same: Hey y’all my name is Red and I’m an organizer here in Chicago. I’m here today to stand with The Water Protectors,Continue reading “Solidarity with #NoDAPLchi”

When Hos fight back, we win!

On November 4, 2015, the Loyola University Chicago chapter of the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion entitled “Women: The Longest Revolution?” The panelists were Margaret Power, professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the author or editor of several books on Latin American history and the political right; Brit Schulte,Continue reading ““Women: The Longest Revolution” with Magaret Power, Brit Schulte, Yasmin Nair”