Caty Simon

2/ Darya.Farivar@leg.wa.gov , tara.simmons@leg.wa.gov , + lauren.davis@leg.wa.gov ---all on a relevant committee

1/Causes violence vs. sw, but even WORSE violence versus trafficking victims, who have fewer resources to protect themselves as they're being coerced--global evidence base says so. Write to WA state reps against this: edwin.obras@leg.wa.gov mary.fosse@leg.wa.gov Roger.Goodman@leg.wa.gov...

End demand of ....the most basic human impulse....???

Please write to Washington State reps and explain that there's a decades-old evidence base explaining that the End Demand model--which in the US looks like intensifying criminalization of clients---only increases violence against sworkers AND trafficking victims and survivors.

Today, I learned the term “End Demand” that aims to “end the demand” for sex work… which of course actually harms sex workers. Thanks to @marginalutilite.bsky.social at Whose Corner is it Anyway! Please sign and share the letter in the quoted post

#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DecrimNow #SWerRights

Please follow Caty, an amazing sex workers rights organizer with Whose Corner Is It Anyway in Western Mass, here and at her new Facebook account! Facebook deleted her old account due to censorship.

YES, please. Let me know how you'd best like me to contact you. If I can get my original account, "Caty Simon", restored, it would solve all my problems

****Back on Facebook, trying to rebuild an account called CatyCaty Simon--please add me, esp. if you are a swer rights movement person---it's only giving me harm redux suggestions for friends.****

Ha ha ha, nevermind for now, they almost immediately suspended the new Facebook.

5//In the meantime, please add me as "CatyCaty Simon"---esp. swers, it's giving me a bunch of hr ppl as suggestions b/c of my recent activity.

4/I finally downloaded what there was to download from my permanently disabled Facebook account and it was basically nothing---so now I'm missing 16 years of pics (including those of my late partner), posts, and friends (I had 2-3k)---a huge documentary loss including a blow to my networking.

Tyou so much for offering!

Plus, what I was finally able to download from the account was basically nothing, so I'm missing 16 years of pics, friends, and posts---pretty huge documentary loss as well as a blow to my networking.

Yes, please! They permanently disabled mine after appeal/review.

3/****So my FB account was reviewed and now it’s permanently disabled for “violating community standards”, no possibility of appeal. Does anyone know of a way to help with this so I don’t lose crucial fundraising and movement info sharing access after 16 years of building up that account?*****

2/Last time this happened, someone dm’d to help me on Twitter and I was able to get my account restored. Can anyone here help in any way?

1/CALL FOR TECH HELP: My Facebook account was just suspended again for “too much activity violating…community standards.” This account is critical to our fundraising for low-income sw who use drugs and to my keeping track of movement activities.

Any orgs that haven't already, please sign on to this @national-nsu.bsky.social sign-on letter! There's a global evidence base demonstrating that End Demand Policies increase violence against sex workers and trafficking survivors.

On #IDEVASW, we’re asking you to join NSU’s campaign against so-called “End Demand” SW policy.

#enddemandisantiequity … and it leads to violence against SWs.

Sign and share our letter: forms.gle/FTRb36TQq7Ch...

#decrimnow #nothingaboutuswithoutus

#idevasw

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Please help us continue the work we do like this, especially paying both staff and base membership, for work that grants will not support. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

2/...when none of our bilingual members who do this work are professional translators, but members of our affected community. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/We're thinking of further alliances we can have with language justice organizations who can teach us new things and checking in with our translator cohort on how we can create the best translation environment...
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Translation is becoming more reciprocal. Everything in Spanish is also translated to English, reducing isolation of solely Spanish speaking members. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

We are trying to ensure all our programming is fully English/Spanish bilingual, so instead of having one translator from among our ranks who becomes exhausted, we are picking two translators who can spell each other. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Finally, we did OD reversal trainings again last Friday, and while it was slightly more intimate---18 participants---we are slowly changing our practices to align more with language justice. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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2/...how we can keep adjusting until there are more patients who trust enough in their care to stay, knowing they will not be experiencing withdrawal pain throughout. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/ I was able to speak w/fellow panelist Dr. Bill Soares on successes + challenges WCIIA has encountered in partnership with Baystate ED , on hospital methadone/bupe induction, what happens when systems meet hospital workplace reality...https://www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway

Panel explores addiction harm reduction strategies - Greenfield Recorder At a Harm Reduction Summit at Greenfield Community College, health care professionals, addiction specialists and people with lived experience discussed strategies to reduce the negative consequences a...

The panel was entitled From Crisis to Connection: Strategic Harm Reduction Across Systems, meant to represent spectrum within hr--I was proud to represent more grassroots hr orgs by/for affected PWUD populations in that space. recorder.com/2025/10/27/h... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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Oh, and I forgot one last get-together---I spoke at a panel at the Franklin County Opioid Task Force's 2025 Harm Reduction Summit: Building Bridges Between Care, Policy, and Community. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...