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All in a Day's Sex Work Podcast
Stories from the Front Lines of Advocacy


The Sean Combs Verdict, and the Misunderstanding of Exploitation
On July 2, 2025, a Manhattan federal jury delivered a split verdict: Sean “Diddy” Combs was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking, but convicted on two counts under the Mann Act—transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution. The public reaction was swift and polarized. Some called it justice served; others saw it as yet another reminder that wealth and fame insulate men from real accountability.

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 74 min read


Seen but Still Silenced: The Complicated Gratitude of the Sex Worker Rights Movement
When a certain child rescue organization—you know, the one whose name sounds like a Christian indie band—published their recent reflection titled “Mistakes happen in anti-trafficking work. We must learn from them,” a strange thing happened across the sex worker rights community.

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 304 min read


Tariffs and End Demand: When “Protection” Becomes the Problem
Remember when tariffs were marketed as the golden ticket to economic salvation?

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 252 min read


The Most Expensive DUI in Massachusetts History
In what could be seen as the most expensive DUI in Massachusetts history, Karen Read was found Not Guilty this week of second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

Blair Hopkins
Jun 233 min read


Degrees of Separation: Why We Must Redefine What Counts as Education
It started with a question. “What college degree do you have?” Tasha had just been released and was sitting in the intake office of a...

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 205 min read


Classroom Contraband — What They Don’t Teach You in Prison
For years, prisons were called “crime schools” because people learned more about how to survive in the underground economy than how to build a stable life.

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 204 min read


🚨 Weekend Hot Takes🚨
Good morning, Red Umbrella fam. Hope your coffee is strong and your boundaries stronger, because this weekend delivered a full-course meal of carceral nonsense, QAnon fever dreams, ICE agents crashing into elementary school zones, and a grown man throwing himself a military parade for his birthday.

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 164 min read


Degrees of Survival — When Learning Is a Lifeline for Trafficking Survivors
When people imagine what “freedom” looks like for trafficking survivors, they often picture a dramatic rescue or a courtroom triumph—handcuffs off, a predator jailed, a survivor walking into the sunlight.

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 135 min read


Friday the 13th, Prank Calls, and Trafficking Conspiracies We Wish We Made Up
There’s something about Friday the 13th that makes people lose their ever-loving minds.

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 124 min read


Correspondence Course Hustle — Higher Education from a Cell
Education is more than a classroom, a test, or a diploma. For criminalized women, survivors, and sex workers, it’s a form of resistance. It’s a survival strategy. It’s a way to reclaim power in systems designed to keep us voiceless.

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 65 min read


The GED Gap — Why Basic Education Still Isn’t Basic (Especially if You're a Woman in a Cage)
Education is often sold as the golden ticket—the “way out,” the “great equalizer,” the shiny ladder out of poverty. But for women who’ve...

Swop Behind Bars
May 305 min read


“I Don’t Want You to Worry About Me”: A Letter No Mother Should Ever Have to Write
No mother should have to write a letter to her child from prison.

Swop Behind Bars
May 273 min read


Models for Change: Community-led and policy-driven solutions that center healing, safety and equity
Community-led services and support for incarcerated women being released from prison are grounded in one radical belief: that those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. Rather than imposing top-down programs that often miss the mark, grassroots organizations across the country—many founded and led by formerly incarcerated women—offer holistic, peer-based support that centers dignity, autonomy, and lived experience.

Swop Behind Bars
May 236 min read


Barriers to Reentry: How inadequate healthcare behind bars sets women up to fail once they’re released.
The moment a woman is released from incarceration is supposed to mark a new beginning. But for many, especially those with untreated health conditions, trauma, or chronic illnesses, reentry is more like walking off a cliff with no net below.

Swop Behind Bars
May 163 min read


Green Cards and Red Flags: When Fake Marriages Target Sex Workers
There’s a shady hustle circulating again—and this time, ts showing up in strip clubs across the country

Swop Behind Bars
Apr 244 min read


Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), a time set aside to educate, honor survivors, and call for an end to sexual violence. But...

Swop Behind Bars
Apr 203 min read


Forgotten Behind Bars — Centering Equity in Women’s Health in Prisons and Jails
When we talk about mass incarceration in the United States, the conversation often centers around numbers—how many people are locked up,...

Swop Behind Bars
Apr 184 min read


Is Sex Work a Feminist Issue?
Sex work has long been a contentious topic within feminist discourse, raising critical questions about bodily autonomy, economic justice, an

Swop Behind Bars
Feb 213 min read


On the Super Bowl, Safety and Solidarity
Finding common ground in a time of crisis Every year, around this time, the airwaves in whatever city is hosting the Super...

Swop Behind Bars
Jan 115 min read


10 Days In
Survivors bring with them a unique set of survival skills honed through their lived experiences of exploitation and violence.

Swop Behind Bars
Jan 108 min read
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