DSW Newsletter #1 (April 2019) Archives

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

March 14, 2019

DSW teamed up with COYOTE RI and allied organizations to educate RI legislators about the negative impact of criminalizing prostitution.

DSW’s lobbyists and local RI advocates engaged legislators in one-on-one conversations on the House floor to push for a study commission that would reexamine the state’s prostitution laws. Most RI legislators agreed that the laws aren’t working, while there’s uncertainty about what better laws would look like. A study commission would provide the forum for discussing solutions.

DSW Newsletter #1 (April 2019)

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel at SXSW

March 11, 2019 DSW teamed up with Alex Andrews from SWOP Behind Bars, Dan Savage, Larry Walters, and River del Llano from Uncage Love to discuss the dangerous implications of...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

March 11, 2019 DSW hosted in Austin a soiree with Dan Savage, donors, local activists, and panelists, where advocates for decriminalization shared strategies and stories. Libertarians, progressives, harm reduction advocates,...

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

March 14, 2019 DSW teamed up with COYOTE RI and allied organizations to educate RI legislators about the negative impact of criminalizing prostitution. DSW’s lobbyists and local RI advocates engaged...

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal Court Case

February 20, 2019 DSW drafted and submitted to a federal CA court a spirited amicus brief that challenges the constitutionality of the devastating SESTA/FOSTA law. This “friend of the court”...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

March 2, 2019 DSW hosted a panel at the Seattle Annual Sex Worker Summit after the debut of the documentary “War on Whores,” which investigates the harms of criminalizing sex...

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

DSW Newsletter Archive

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel at SXSW

March 11, 2019

DSW teamed up with Alex Andrews from SWOP Behind Bars, Dan Savage, Larry Walters, and River del Llano from Uncage Love to discuss the dangerous implications of SESTA/‍FOSTA at a panel at SXSW in Austin. SESTA/‍FOSTA was the federal bill signed into law on April 11, 2018, which shut down services sex workers used to schedule and screen their clients.

The panel focused on the ongoing harm that SESTA/‍FOSTA is causing to the sex work community, in addition to the long-term implications for a broad range of civil liberties. Panelists also focused on the ongoing, multipronged strategies to challenge or repeal the law — and the increased energy and urgency the legislation created within the growing sex worker rights movement.

Dan Savage lent his expertise as a longtime LGBTQI activist and sex educator. Alex Andrews spoke to and for incarcerated sex workers, and Larry Walters is currently embroiled in litigation challenging SESTA/‍FOSTA's constitutionality, echoing the other panelists' observation that it’s simply indefensible.

You can listen to Kaytlin Bailey and Dan Savage discuss Decriminalize Sex Work on episode 649 of Savage Lovecast!

L to R back row: River del Llano, Alex Andrews, J Leigh Brantly. L to R front row: Melissa Broudo, Kaytlin Bailey, Larry Walters.

DSW Newsletter #1 (April 2019)

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel at SXSW

March 11, 2019 DSW teamed up with Alex Andrews from SWOP Behind Bars, Dan Savage, Larry Walters, and River del Llano from Uncage Love to discuss the dangerous implications of...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal Court Case

February 20, 2019 DSW drafted and submitted to a federal CA court a spirited amicus brief that challenges the constitutionality of the devastating SESTA/FOSTA law. This “friend of the court”...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

March 2, 2019 DSW hosted a panel at the Seattle Annual Sex Worker Summit after the debut of the documentary “War on Whores,” which investigates the harms of criminalizing sex...

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

DSW Newsletter Archive

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

March 11, 2019

DSW hosted in Austin a soiree with Dan Savage, donors, local activists, and panelists, where advocates for decriminalization shared strategies and stories. Libertarians, progressives, harm reduction advocates, anarchists and provocateurs mingled despite their philosophical and tactical differences. Alex Andrews, Kaytlin Bailey, and Dan Savage gave a toast to our shared goal of ending the prohibition of prostitution in the United States.

L to R: Alex Andrews, J Leigh Brantly, Melissa Broudo, Kaytlin Bailey, and Dan Savage.

DSW Newsletter #1 (April 2019)

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel at SXSW

March 11, 2019 DSW teamed up with Alex Andrews from SWOP Behind Bars, Dan Savage, Larry Walters, and River del Llano from Uncage Love to discuss the dangerous implications of...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal Court Case

February 20, 2019 DSW drafted and submitted to a federal CA court a spirited amicus brief that challenges the constitutionality of the devastating SESTA/FOSTA law. This “friend of the court”...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

March 2, 2019 DSW hosted a panel at the Seattle Annual Sex Worker Summit after the debut of the documentary “War on Whores,” which investigates the harms of criminalizing sex...

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

DSW Newsletter Archive

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

March 2, 2019

DSW hosted a panel at the Seattle Annual Sex Worker Summit after the debut of the documentary “War on Whores,” which investigates the harms of criminalizing sex work.

The film features prolific writer and sex-worker activist Maggie McNeil and Reason Foundation’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown, as they track the alarming institutional shift from the United States' failed “war on drugs” toward an increasingly militarized “war on whores.”

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DSW Newsletter #1 (April 2019)

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel at SXSW

March 11, 2019 DSW teamed up with Alex Andrews from SWOP Behind Bars, Dan Savage, Larry Walters, and River del Llano from Uncage Love to discuss the dangerous implications of...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal Court Case

February 20, 2019 DSW drafted and submitted to a federal CA court a spirited amicus brief that challenges the constitutionality of the devastating SESTA/FOSTA law. This “friend of the court”...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

March 2, 2019 DSW hosted a panel at the Seattle Annual Sex Worker Summit after the debut of the documentary “War on Whores,” which investigates the harms of criminalizing sex...

DSW and allies hold SESTA/FOSTA panel...

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit

DSW Newsletter Archive

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal Court Case

February 20, 2019

DSW drafted and submitted to a federal CA court a spirited amicus brief that challenges the constitutionality of the devastating SESTA/FOSTA law.

This “friend of the court” brief was cosigned by an impressive array of organizations, including Sex Workers Project, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Brooklyn Defender Services, St. James Infirmary, and other allies.

DSW Hosts Soiree With Dan Savage

DSW and allies lobby RI legislators

DSW Files Legal Brief in Federal...

DSW Hosts Panel at Seattle Summit