Red Umbrella Sweden

04/11/2026

S3xarbetare!
Missa inte chansen att testa dig gratis och med s3xarbetarvänlig personal!

🇬🇧 S*xperterna/S*xwork offers a peer support unit — currently the only one of its kind in Sweden — where s*x workers can receive one-on-one support from our peer staff and talk about safety, health, and other aspects of doing s*x work. The peer team also offers HIV and syphilis testing.

We proudly collaborate with RFSU-kliniken, whose friendly staff offer free chlamydia and gonorrhea testing just next door during the drop-in.Each visitor receives a goodie bag with condoms & l**e, a small gift, and info on groups, services, and professionals that support s*x workers.

Next Drop-In

📅 Monday, Nov 9
🕐 5:00–8:00 PM
📍 RFSL Stockholm, Alsnögatan 7

Free & confidential
No booking or ID required when meeting with the peer team.

Questions?
✉️s*[email protected]
📱 +46 73-572 22 38
 
🇸🇪 S*xperterna/S*xwork driver en peer support-verksamhet – just nu den enda i sitt slag i Sverige – där personer som säljer s*x kan få individuellt stöd av vårt peer-team och prata om säkerhet, hälsa och andra delar av att sälja s*x. Peer-teamet erbjuder också hiv- och syfilistestning.

Vi samarbetar med RFSU-kliniken,  vars vänliga personal erbjuder gratis testning för klamydia och gonorré i rummet bredvid under våra drop-in-tider. Alla som besöker oss får en goodiebag med kondomer och glidmedel, en liten gåva och information om grupper, verksamheter och yrkespersoner som stöttar personer som säljer s*x.
 
Nästa Drop-in

📅 Måndag, 9 nov
🕐 Kl. 17:00–20:00
📍 RFSL Stockholm, Alsnögatan 7

Gratis & anonymt
Ingen tidsbokning eller legitimation krävs för att träffa peer-teamet.

Frågor?
✉️s*[email protected]
📱 +46 73-572 22 38

04/11/2026

Við í stjórn samtakanna skrifuðum okkar fyrstu skoðunargrein á Vísi til þess að leiðrétta sumar þær rangfærslur sem eru á ferð um norræna/sænska módelið hvað varðar vændi. Við viljum sjá réttindi fyrir fólk sem selur og öflugt kerfi sem grípur þau sem neyðast til þess að selja vegna fátæktar eða mansalsaðstæðna. Greinin er í athugasemd, endilega deilið!

„Við getum eingöngu glæpavætt í burtu öruggari aðstæður fyrir kynlífsverkafólk og vændisseljendur. Við viljum sjá framtíð þar sem enginn þarf að gera eitthvað sem þau ekki vilja gera vegna neyðar, en til þess að komast þangað þurfum við að efla skóla-, heilbrigðis- og velferðarkerfin okkar og mæta fólki þar sem það er, ekki glæpavæða þau og gera umhverfi þeirra hættulegra."

04/11/2026

We stand in solidarity with our Icelandic colleagues fighting against the Nordic Model!

A system that claims to protect s*x workers must not make life more dangerous for us. We need rights, safety and policies that listen to s*x workers.

Read more:

🇮🇸 Icelandic colleagues' article: https://www.visir.is/g/20262957464d/er-norraena-modelid-refsilaust-fyrir-seljendur-vaendis-a-islandi-

❤️ Our blog: https://redumbrella.se/blog/

Blog Blog

18/10/2026

☂️ Vill du veta mer om Red Umbrella Sweden (RUS) och vad vi står för? ❤️

Är du nyfiken på vårt arbete, våra värderingar och de frågor vi engagerar oss i? Vill du läsa om våra erfarenheter, vårt arbete för rättigheter och varför vår röst behövs?

📖 Besök vår blogg och lär känna oss lite bättre! Där delar vi tankar, kunskap och perspektiv från vår verklighet.

👉 https://redumbrella.se/blog/

Dela gärna vidare så att fler kan upptäcka oss! ❤️☂️

Blog Blog

10/10/2026

🇬🇧S*xperterna S*xwork offers a peer support unit — currently the only one of its kind in Sweden — where s*x workers can receive one-on-one support from our peer staff and talk about safety, health, and other aspects of doing s*x work. The peer team also offers HIV and syphilis testing.

We proudly collaborate with RFSU-kliniken, whose friendly staff offer free chlamydia and gonorrhea testing just next door during the drop-in.

Each visitor receives a goodie bag with condoms & l**e, a small gift, and info on groups, services, and professionals that support s*x workers. 

Next Drop-In
📅 Monday, Oct 12
🕐 5:00–8:00 PM
📍 RFSL Stockholm, Alsnögatan 7

Free & confidential
No booking or ID required when meeting with the peer team.

Questions?
✉️s*[email protected]
📱 +46 73-572 22 38
 
🇸🇪 S*xperterna S*xwork driver en peer support-verksamhet – just nu den enda i sitt slag i Sverige – där personer som säljer s*x kan få individuellt stöd av vårt peer-team och prata om säkerhet, hälsa och andra delar av att sälja s*x. Peer-teamet erbjuder också hiv- och syfilistestning.

Vi samarbetar med RFSU-kliniken, vars vänliga personal erbjuder gratis testning för klamydia och gonorré i rummet bredvid under våra drop-in-tider.

Alla som besöker oss får en goodiebag med kondomer och glidmedel, en liten gåva och information om grupper, verksamheter och yrkespersoner som stöttar personer som säljer s*x.
 
Nästa Drop-in
📅 Måndag, 12 okt
🕐 Kl. 17:00–20:00
📍 RFSL Stockholm, Alsnögatan 7

Gratis & anonymt
Ingen tidsbokning eller legitimation krävs för att träffa peer-teamet.

Frågor?
✉️s*[email protected]
📱 +46 73-572 22 38

01/09/2026

Idag uppmärksammar vi Internationella överdosdagen. Vi minns alla de som inte längre finns med oss, och vi sörjer tillsammans med de anhöriga som lämnats kvar.
​En överdos är inte ett misslyckande – det är en tragedi som ofta går att förhindra. Genom ökad kunskap, minskad stigmatisering och tillgång till livräddande insatser som naloxon och säkrare vårdkedjor kan vi rädda liv. Ingen ska behöva dö i det tysta.
​Vi fortsätter kampen för en tryggare, mer medmänsklig Ruspolitik och ett samhälle där alla får det stöd de behöver.
​Tänd ett ljus idag för någon du saknar, och hjälp oss att sprida kunskap så att fler får leva. ❤️

30/08/2026

This story really began in 2018, at the Florida NOW Conference, when I supported what I believed was a modest resolution.

It asked something simple: that Florida NOW not support legislation affecting s*x workers when s*x workers themselves opposed that legislation. That was it. It was essentially a request that a feminist organization not advocate for laws governing a marginalized population over the objections of the people who would actually have to live under those laws.

A retired judge fought that resolution hard. Her opposition surprised me, not simply because of its intensity, but because I knew her to be someone who had devoted much of her life to women’s rights. She considered herself a feminist. She had spent decades in the legal system. She had seen violence against women up close. But prostitution was different for her. When she thought about prostitution, she did not think about s*x workers organizing for labor rights or demanding a voice in legislation. She thought about the women who had passed through her courtroom.

But the women who came before her were not a representative sample of people selling s*x. They were the people policing had selected for her.

What would have been much harder for her to see were all the people who never entered her courtroom at all.

The independent worker who screened clients and then went home. The person who chose s*x work because it paid substantially more than another available job. The person who did s*x work intermittently.

Those people were far less likely to appear before her because they had not been arrested. The courtroom had given her an extraordinarily powerful view of prostitution, but it had also given her a profoundly incomplete one.

If we oppose carceral feminism, what exactly are we opposing? Are we opposing only the incarceration of women? Or are we questioning feminism’s reliance on police, surveillance, prosecution, criminal statutes, and punishment as tools for solving complicated social problems?

The distinction matters enormously when we talk about the Nordic Model. Its appeal is easy to understand. For someone horrified by the historical arrest and incarceration of people selling s*x, it offers an apparently simple correction: We arrested the wrong person. Stop arresting sellers. Arrest buyers. That can feel like an obvious feminist evolution.

But s*x workers do not live in a separate universe from the people purchasing s*x. Enforcement against clients still occurs in the environments where s*x workers live and work. Policing the transaction necessarily entails policing its participants, communications, workplaces, advertising, and surrounding networks.

That is why the question cannot end with Who gets arrested? We also have to ask: What does the enforcement strategy do to the people we say we are trying to protect?

For me, rejecting carceral feminism means more than deciding that s*x workers should not be arrested while preserving criminal law around the consensual transaction. It means questioning whether policing and punishment should remain our default response to consensual adult s*xual commerce at all.

Above all, it means listening when the people most directly affected by a policy tell us what that policy does to their lives.

20/08/2026

Filmvisning + samtal: Labor

När: Torsdag 20 augusti 18.30
Var: Folkets bio

Hur hittar vi ett community? Hur bygger vi det – och hur håller vi varandra?

I dokumentärfilmen Labor har regissören Tove Pils följt sina tre vänner under tio års tid.

Genom Hannas berättelse reser vi från Sverige till San Francisco, där hon söker en plats att utforska sin s*xualitet och ett sammanhang där hon kan höra hemma. Där möter hon den professionella dominatrixen Chloe och transmannen Cyd, som arbetar som eskort och inom gaypornografi. Labor är en film om drömmar, arbete, s*xualitet och vad vi är beredda att göra för att skapa ett liv som känns sant. Men kanske framför allt är det en film om längtan efter community.

Efter visningen samtalar vi – Tove Pils och Sara Lindquist.

Vi arbetar tillsammans i flera kreativa projekt och lever också tillsammans. Faktum är att Labor var en del av det som förde oss samman. Under arbetet med filmen upptäckte vi en gemensam, nästan utopisk längtan efter community. Vad är det egentligen vi söker hos varandra? Hur skapar vi platser där fler kan känna sig hemma? Och vad kan vi lära av våra queera vänner i San Francisco?

Kom och se filmen, lyssna och delta i ett samtal om gemenskap, skapande och hur vi kan bygga de sammanhang vi längtar efter. Vi hoppas att du vill vara en del av samtalet!

20/08/2026

NSWP is recruiting a full-time Global Coordinator to join our Secretariat team. The Global Coordinator is responsible and accountable for the organisational culture, and is expected to uphold the principles of integrity and fairness, acting in the best interests of the organisation and its membershi...

12/08/2026