August 6, 2019
Tiffany Cabán came within 60 votes of winning the Queens DA race, running on a platform of decriminalizing and decarcerating nonviolent offenders such as sex workers. She specifically pledged her support to the sex work community. After a lengthy recount process, she conceded on August 6.
Despite her loss, Cabán was able to push sex workers’ message of destigmatizing, decriminalizing and decarcerating. She pushed her opponent Melinda Katz and all Queens residents to rethink how we police our communities.
DSW General Counsel Melissa Broudo and one of our legal consultants, Marguerite Schauer, volunteered their time to oversee the extensive recount process of this extremely close and important election.
NY elections committee reviews all ballots cast in the DA’s race (July 25).
DSW Newsletter #5 (August 2019)
DSW Makes Its Case at National Conference of State Legislatures
August 6-8, 2019 Melissa Broudo, DSW’s general council and RI coordinator, and Kaytlin Bailey, DSW’s communications director, met with state legislators from all over the country at the National Conference...
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DSW Participates in Woodhull’s 2019 Sexual Freedom Summit
August 18, 2019 DSW’s Kaytlin Bailey attended the 10th annual Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit hosted in Washington, DC. She connected to sex worker rights activists and sexual freedom advocates from...
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DSW Supports the Continued Legal Fight Against FOSTA/SESTA
August 23, 2019 Next month, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the appeal of Woodhull Freedom Foundation et al v. The United States of America, a case that...
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Nevertheless She Existed: Kaytlin Bailey Presents a Sex Worker From History
July 31, 2019 DSW’s Kaytlin Bailey participated in Nevertheless She Existed, a live show and podcast produced at Caveat Theater. She told the story of Phryne, a famous courtesan in...
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Tiffany Cabán Concedes Queens DA Race
August 6, 2019 Tiffany Cabán came within 60 votes of winning the Queens DA race, running on a platform of decriminalizing and decarcerating nonviolent offenders such as sex workers. She...
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DSW Makes Its Case at National...
DSW Participates in Woodhull’s 2019 Sexual...
DSW Supports the Continued Legal Fight...
Nevertheless She Existed: Kaytlin Bailey Presents...
Tiffany Cabán Concedes Queens DA Race