IWD NYC 2020 COALITION
BLACK TRANS NEWS
Newly founded org made-up of black trans sex workers striving to reclaim and own our narrative. Black Trans News LLC, is a safe place 24/7 full of entertainment from our very own community. Our focus uplift, empower and mentor our youth to lead the way to our best to come.
Representative: TS Candii
BLUESTOCKINGS
Bluestockings is a queer, trans, and sex worker run feminist bookstore, café, and activist center operating out of the Lower East Side in New York.
DECRIM NY
Decrim NY is working to build safety for people who trade sex by choice, circumstance or coercion.
Representative: Leila Raven
G.L.I.T.S.
G.L.I.T.S. is an organization that puts sex workers first and builds community globally. G.L.I.T.S. is front line now doing COVID-19 relief work bringing community from jail into sustainability.
Representative: Ceyenne Doroshow
HACKING//HUSTLING
Hacking//Hustling is a space for digital rights advocates, journalists, and allied communities to come learn from sex workers and better understand the developing effects of SESTA on internet freedom for all. This organization was formed with the belief that sex workers are the experts of their own experience and an internet that is safe for sex workers, is an internet that is safe for almost everyone.
Representatives: Lorelei Lee
KINK OUT
Kink Out produces empowering events that bring people of intersectional identities with lived experience in BDSM and sex work together to share art, activism, work, and conversation.
Representatives: Yin Q
MAKE THE ROAD NY
Make the Road New York builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice.
Representatives: Yulianna + Bianey
NYC STRIPPER STRIKE
The NYC Stripper Strike was in protest against how our own city doesn’t support us and the discrimination we endure because of patriarchy.
Representative: Gizelle Marie
RED CANARY SONG
Red Canary Song centers basebuilding with migrant workers through a labor rights framework and mutual aid. We believe that full decriminalization is necessary for labor organizing and anti-trafficking
Representative: Esther K + Lorelei Lee
ORGANIZACION LATINA TRANS NY
Organización Latina Trans NY es una organización Latina que dirigo para la comunidad LGBTTQI Latina en Bklyn y áreas allacente.
Representative: providing a statement
PHILADELPHIA RED UMBRELLA ALLIANCE
A sex worker-run collective focused on creating a consistent flow of mutual aid to the most marginalized sex workers. We also focus on advocacy and decriminalization.
Representatives: Raani Begum + Eve
SEX WORKERS PROJECT AT THE URBAN JUSTICE CENTER
The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center engages in legal services, advocacy, education, media, and organizing to build a movement to protect the human rights of sex workers. We aim to create a world that is safe for all workers and where human trafficking does not exist.
Representative: RJ Thompson
SUPPORT HO(S)E
The Support Ho(s)e Collective is a formation of sex workers and their trusted co-conspirators in Chicago and NYC. We build radical community for sex workers through political education and public agitation, and coordinate the Justice for Alisha Walker Defense Campaign. Our organizing efforts include: building defense campaigns for criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, sex worker-centered political syllabi, protest planning, knowledge sharing, and sex worker-centric media and health tool-kits.
Click here to donate to the Alisha Walker Support Fund.
Representatives: Red, with a statement from Alisha Walker.
SWOP BRONX
SWOP Bronx is a black trans lead organization for black trans sex workers in need of support with getting help.
Representatives: Aneesha + Alisha
SWOP BROOKLYN
SWOP Brooklyn provides mutual aid and outreach to sex workers in New York City and New York State. We also work to build networks among sex worker organizations to strengthen and expand our efforts.
Representatives: Molly Simmons + Fera Lorde