Lysistrata Co-op

Remember when sex workers' rights advocates begged people to start using the word "trafficking" properly because misuse would only lead to an ever expanding definition that would result in finding ways to criminalize people for non trafficking offenses?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

Infographic text: Love may be priceless, but the US carceral system costs taxpayers $182 billion every year.

Roses are red, violets are blue, to end mass incarceration there is lots of work to do.

Happy Valentines Day

But of course orgs even serving SWs (not even doing SW related transactions) aren't allowed to move funds this freely

Annnnnd that’s why I sold all my Shopify stock today

He got access to our data fiscally vamoosed 8 billion and now wants to buy Open Ai

DO NOT PUT A SINGLE THING MORE IN CHAT GPT

Its not just that the sex trafficking myths around the super bowl make life harder for sex workers, it's that the diversion of resources and media attention makes stories like this go under the radar for most people

The ONE Project 2025 talking point Dems, and everyone else frankly, actively avoided talking about was the banning of “porn.”

Now y’all want to talk about it after the architect of P2025 is confirmed.

I hope y’all are happy.

Support the Lysistrata UBI & other Network Programming! Several of our network groups are facing urgent funding shortfalls going into the second half of this year! Over the next few months, we are trying to raise funds to cover:-The next two quarterly supp...

We have been prioritizing this type of work to be as ready as possible for circumstances like this and we could have been so much more ready with more resources, but it isn't too late to support community based cash distribution systems heavily now!

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Please consider this a key time to set up monthly donations if you don't already, our membership is 67% LGBTQIA, 79% PoC, 74% Chronically ill/Disabled, 62% houseless /housing instable, 45% parenting/caregiving members & it is made up of the exact people they are trying to cut off from resources.

Help Us Maintain Our Emergency Fund & Pay Multiply Marginalized SWs!! | Lysistrata Cooperative (Powered by Donorbox) We are an ~200 member activist co-op operating nationally in the United States run by and for current/former sex workers founded in 2016 and we could use your support! (As a non-501c3 entity contribut...

This rapid escalating of conditions cutting people off from their benefits means that if we can pull together the funds to do larger and more frequent payments, these next few months especially are a key time to do so.

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Image 5 Support a Universal Basic Income for SWs https://tinyurl.com/RSNnetworkurgentsupport

So far, we've distributed 8000 in winter supplemental income payments to the ~200 general Lysistrata members since International Day to End Violence Against SWs and are in good shape to stay on our quarterly payment system for March, and we are already grant writing for the next cycle in the summer.

Image 1, a screenshot from @ PenGwenwithLC reads: I'm going to be very blunt about this. We are going to see a LOT more people in need of mutual aid to cover food between the soaring food prices and the last vestiges of our societal safety nets being dismantled. People are going to starve without community support.

Image 2, a screenshot from @ TheRealJChubby reads: Nothing should radicalize people more than seeing Trump blow through all the barriers Democrats always said were stopping them from delivering meaningful change.

Image 3, screenshot from @ allie.gay reads: You need to understand that in 11 days, Trump has advanced anti-transgender policies to near genocidal intensity. Passports have been denied. ID documents confiscated. Banned Trans medicine from those >19y. Essentially banned Trans people from using the bathroom.

Image 4, screenshot from @ wyden.senate.gov reads: NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

We've been quiet lately while we work on assessing what's safe for public communication where, working on ways to tighten up some security, and doing internal structuring work but the work continues as conditions deteriorate quickly!

December 17th memorials and the closure of spaces like Boyztown highlight the need for visibility mourning and reclamation These losses aren’t isolated they reflect a system that erases nonconformity

#EndViolence #InternationalDayToEndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers #D17 #Fundraiser #JusticeForSexWorkers

I have a lot of thoughts when compiling the December 17 list, and it includes what type of trends we see.

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✊️☂️ We're in the final countdown to this year's International Day to End Violence Against SW events, here's where you can find our members if you're looking for an event to join:

Thin Ice Beneath Our Pleasers: A Nation in Flames (Denver IDEVASW 2024) 🔥❄️ Thin Ice Beneath Our Pleasers: A Nation in Flames ❄️🔥  Join us for the 7th Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers as we reflect, resist, and heal.  📅 Date:Friday, December 13...

-Friday, December 13th @hellsbellsswhc @slutwalkdenver.bsky.social and @bswc_lca will be gathering for a SW only meal at 6pm and an open community event starting at 7pm 🎤 RSVP: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

-Tuesday, December 17th we host an online virtual showcase with @lysistratamccf starting at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT, shoot us an email if you're a SW who has questions about sharing your art ✒️ RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

-Tuesday, December 17th @redlightdistrictbytwo will be hosting a SW only event, dm them on IG to get the location info 🌹

-Saturday, December 21st @p.m.gran.te and @creepispacestudio will be including a vigil space and materials on Pueblo's SW history as part of their second annual Slut Soiree @theethospueblo ❤️

We really really need folks to come through in tangible ways right now, one person can't keep holding down this resource this way!!!
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On top of this, we're 2 months behind on covering emergency fund amounts for Whose Corner Is It Anyway members while their own fundraising struggles in addition to the stacked up requests from the last couple of weeks requests haven't been processed.

If we wait until enough recurring donations to come through to reopen the fund it'll be at least another week or two, leaving us several more weeks that we won't be able to do referrals for street based @p.m.gran.te drop in recipients and we're also short to cover $20 stipends at tomorrow's drop in.

The only donations our fundraiser has recieved in the past two weeks have been the handful hustled in person at Pueblo Pride by the same member who does all of our volunteer admin in addition to the on the ground work here.

Our Pueblo folks are out today with @projectapollopueblo responding to the sweep along Fountain Creek this week where they'll be clearing several of the city's most populated encampents, leaving only the location closest to our drop in.

📣 WE ARE STILL URGENTLY FUNDRAISING TO REOPEN THE EMERGENCY FUND WHICH HAS NOW BEEN CLOSED FOR THREE WEEKS!!!

"I’m a low income Black survival FSSW, student, parent and I’m having trouble with getting my vehicle repaired, lack of a working phone (legit use free WiFi’s to work). Any help would be Heaven sent!"
Cashapp: $VPancakes420
Venmo: @ coffycannacakes

Sharing for a Black Trans woman trying to raise 200! "I have a permanent spinal cord injury, I'm in constant terrible nerve pain.I don't take opioids for pain, I'm forced to spend 100s every month on out of pocket pain remedies"
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Sharing for a Black woman trying to raise 150 towards emergency funds for food and needs!

Cash app $faithdeed