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We’re thrilled to announce that applications are now open for the BIPOC Sex Worker Academy 2: Racial Justice and Digital Rights, taking place 4–7 November 2025 in Barcelona, Spain! www.eswalliance.org/bipocacademy2

Deepfakes are growing rapidly, yet sx workers’ voices are often excluded from research and policymaking. Your input is critical: this survey will help us understand the challenges our community faces & ensure that future policies are informed by lived experience.

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I am hiring! Work with us at @ESWA.

We are seeking a Policy Officer who is passionate about digital rights, community-led tech policy, social justice, and is eager to contribute to changing how governments and platforms approach the treatment of SWs online and offline.

DM me if you have questions.

Donate to Help Us Support Our Community, organized by Red Umbrella Sweden Sweden Passed a Cruel Law. Now Sex Workers Are Paying the Price. On 20 May 2025,… Red Umbrella Sweden needs your support for Help Us Support Our Community

9/9 If you’re angry, heartbroken, if you want to take action, please donate now and share the page.

Every contribution helps us show sex workers in Sweden that they are not alone. Thank you for standing with us. www.gofundme.com/f/635w6s-hel...

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Sweden passed a law criminalising the purchase of remote sexual services. Here's what that means and why our resistance matters

Criminalising Online Sex Work: „This law will have international implications far beyond Sweden“ The Swedish government wants to make paying for sexual services online a criminal offense. The law could have global implications for online services and put creators at risk, warns Yigit Aydin. He fi...

🚨 ESWA's #DigitalRights expert Yiğit Aydınalp in conversation with Netzpolitik, warning on the implications of criminalising online sx work in Sweden.

netzpolitik.org/2025/crimina...

🎉 This year's Sx Workers' Day will be nothing short of epic. With events all over Europe, we wish we could be everywhere at once - and we can! All the events will be live streamed on ESWA channels.

💌 RSVP to join, or on- or offline:
www.eswalliance.org/50years

🚨 Conversations about “community standards” often ignore the communities they impact most. So we speak up about the discrimination of sx workers on social media with Meta's Oversight Board 📢

Are you part of a #HumanRights organisation? Sign ESWA's Open Letter! www.eswalliance.org/open_letter_...

🚨 Sex workers are being silenced.
Discrimination, censorship & algorithmic bias online are putting lives & livelihoods at risk.
ESWA launches a report calling for immediate action to hold platforms accountable
👉 Read and share the report now: www.eswalliance.org/social_media...
#DigitalRights

This would be disastrous and put online workers in danger.

This honestly sounds like an utter disaster waiting to happen.

ESWA - @eswa-network.bsky.social - is launching its new report on social media accountability & sx work.

Join us online!

April 28, 2025 | 2:30 PM CET
Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Open Letter: Sweden Must Reject the Expansion of Sex Work Criminalisation: Protect Rights, Not Repression

🧵THREAD: Sweden is about to criminalise digital sx work.
On 20 May, Parliament will vote on a law that would make watching camming or buying erotic content a crime.
Here’s why 80+ organisations and 275+ experts say: NO to Prop. 2024/25:124.

www.eswalliance.org/rights_not_r...

Sweden wants to introduce yet another anti-sex work law, this time focused on online workers 😡.

Of course we signed this petition - will you too? You can sign on as organisation or individual 👇

#SexWorkIsWork

From our friends @eswa-network.bsky.social: Stand in solidarity with sex workers, defend #DigitalRights, and help push back against carceral approaches that harm the very people they claim to protect. Sign the open letter! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Sweden Must Reject the Expansion of Sx Work Criminalisation into online spaces! Sign the open letter to Protect Rights, Not Repression.

www.eswalliance.org/open_letter_...

Come work with us! ♥️

Victims/survivors deserve more than reactive empathy. They deserve recognition, sustained attention, political courage and systemic change. (5)

Because if public concern and political will are only triggered by well-packaged, binge-worthy content, what does that say about our collective priorities and the systems that shape public discourse? (4)

It makes me wonder: Should we produce Netflix thrillers to get people to care about Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians? Or about how the criminalisation of sx work leads to avoidable violence, police abuse and human suffering? (3)

Survivors/victims, their families, activists and human rights organisations have been demanding action for years. They've been offering testimony, evidence and concrete policy recommendations often at great personal cost. And yet, it's a scripted show that finally sparks parliamentary statements.(2)

The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’ Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?

🧵It’s good that misogyny and the rise in violence against women in the UK are finally getting public and political attention. But I can’t help feeling sad that this momentum has only come in the wake of a Netflix drama. (1)

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Abstract Submission Porn Studies Special Issue

Interested? Submit an abstract (500 words max) by December 13th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Have questions? Reach out to the editors
Dr Helen Rand (h.m.rand@gre.ac.uk)
Dr Rachel Stuart (rachel.stuart@brunel.ac.uk)
Yigit Aydinalp (yaydinalp1@sheffield.ac.uk)
Hanne Stegeman (h.m.stegeman@uva.nl)

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Key topics include but are not limited to:
🐣The social, economic, and political dynamics of online sex work.
🐣Community formation among online sex workers.
🐣Innovative resistance strategies against state and corporate coercion.
🐣The impact of legal frameworks on online sex work globally.

(1/3)‼️Call for Papers: Porn Studies Special Issue on Digital-Only Sex Work

The special issue aims to bring together contributions from a range of cultures and locations on digital-only sex work. For more information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

1/3 Sx workers call for justice at the European Parliament! ✊☂️🇪🇺

After nearly three years of dedicated work, ESWA is launching "Exposed from All Sides", a groundbreaking report exposing police violations. The event will take place in the European Parliament.

I am so excited to be here. I can’t wait for to see those of you who are here at our session on the 4th.

Labour rights, safety and privacy: How to centre sex workers’ needs on advertising platforms

🧵A new research report from ESWA: Labour rights, safety and privacy: How to centre sx workers' needs on advertising platforms.

We are excited to announce that the full report and a two-page summary brief are now available to read, download and share here: www.eswalliance.org/labour_right...

Sluts for Security: How to Delete Your Data Ada Hamilton on how it's important to properly delete the data on your device so that it is gone for good!

'This might come as news to some tech bros, but not everyone wants the files and data on their devices lingering around forever. Even if you think you've deleted something, there's a chance that data can be restored by someone determined.'

tryst.link/blog/slut...

Sex work is work ✊🏽