International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers

International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers Since 2003 December 17th has represented “Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers”.

05/29/2026

This episode exposes how easily activity-based metrics—arrests, rescues, and operations—are presented as proof of success while ignoring real outcomes for affected people.It traces the feedback loop where data, narrative, funding, and media reinforce one another, excluding the voices and harms that matter, and argues for measuring what actually improves people’s lives.

2026 IWD
05/29/2026

2026 IWD

International Whores’ Day (IWD) commemorates the 1975 occupation of Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon by s*x workers protesting police violence and criminalization. Each year it’s observed globally throu…

05/27/2026

Carceral feminism is a branch of feminist politics that relies primarily on policing, prosecution, incarceration, and other punitive state mechanisms as the main tools for addressing gender-based violence, s*xual exploitation, trafficking, and abuse. It treats punishment as a path to liberation - but critics argue that in practice, it often strengthens the very systems that harm the people feminism claims to protect.
Carceral feminism didn't begin as a conspiracy. It began as a strategy.

05/22/2026

This episode argues that we already know what makes people safer: access, stability, autonomy, peer-led support, and decriminalization. It examines how current systems prioritize visibility and control over real outcomes, excludes those most affected from policymaking, and calls for measuring safety by lived experience rather than metrics on paper.

05/15/2026

Start somewhere familiar. The episode's thought experiment moves the logic used to criminalize s*x work into ordinary industries to show how outlawing one side of a transaction doesn't remove danger but pushes it underground.When buyers, employers, or support roles are criminalized, communication, collaboration, and safety practices disappear: work goes off the books, screening and insurance vanish, locations become isolated, and people hesitate to report abuse. Enforcement reallocates risk onto those with the least protection.Real harm reduction comes from stable housing, healthcare, legal protections, income security, and worker-led safety systems—practical tools and power, not raids or criminal penalties. Policies should be measured by outcomes in people's lives, not arrest statistics.

05/12/2026

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