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Jose Torres Found Guilty by Jury Trial
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12th, 2023 Sex Workers Celebrate the Conviction of Jose Torres aka “Joey the Player” Jose Torres terrorized...

Swop Behind Bars
Oct 12, 20232 min read


Why Don’t We Talk about Self Harm?
SBB has a regular weekly staff meeting that is semi-mandatory for all of our staff members. Semi-mandatory within SBB means that if you...

Swop Behind Bars
Oct 9, 20237 min read


Everything is (Not) Fine
Experiential Trauma Indicators for Frontline Advocacy and Outreach Workers One of our SWOP Behind Bars front line advocate experienced...

Swop Behind Bars
Oct 2, 202311 min read


Resolving Homelessness
Part 3 Blockade, Barriers and Obstacles for Housing First Initiatives A panicked person called the Community Support Line from Seattle...

Swop Behind Bars
Sep 24, 20238 min read


No Room For You
Homelessness and Housing First Initiatives vs Treatment First Part Two of Three One of our regular support line callers has been...

Swop Behind Bars
Sep 17, 20238 min read


I Am A Sex Worker. Here’s Why Calling Me One Matters.
Originally published in the Huffington Post on 9/16/2023 A recent op-ed in the New York Times argues that “sex work is an inappropriate...

Swop Behind Bars
Sep 17, 20234 min read


No Room For You
Homelessness, Under-Housing and Survival of People Who Trade Sex Part One of Three A single mother of 2 teenagers recently called the ...

Swop Behind Bars
Sep 10, 20236 min read


International Response to the New York Times Article
On August 17th, 2023, the New York Times published an OpEd by Pamela Paul and the International Community fought back by writing letters...

Swop Behind Bars
Sep 5, 20233 min read


Litigation of Survival
Free Speech wins (temporarily at least) in Texas Over the past decade there have been increasing legislative efforts at the State and...

Swop Behind Bars
Sep 4, 20234 min read


MAKE DMS SAFE
From Fight For The Future Facebook recently handed over direct messages between a mom and her teenage daughter to police. Now they’re...

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 19, 20232 min read


What You Should Know About The Human Trafficking Rescue Industry
This article was first published on Rate That Rescue on June of 2016 in order to provide information about how to vet an anti trafficking...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 28, 202310 min read


Reflections on the Long Island Serial Killer Arrest
The sex work community breathed a sigh of relief when news of the arrest of a suspect in the Long Island Gilgo Beach murders was...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 24, 20235 min read


You've Got (Jail) Mail!
Guide to Writing to Incarcerated People - Updated July 2023 It’s important for prisoners to stay in touch with people who are on the...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 18, 20238 min read


The FOSTA Challenge
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday, July 7th 2023, that the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) is constitutional,...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 16, 20233 min read


The Flags of Pride
June is Pride Month, when the world’s LGBTQIA+ communities come together and celebrate the freedom to be themselves. Pride gatherings are...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 16, 20238 min read


Safe Travels
International and Domestic Travel Tips We Travel. It's part of the job as activists and as workers. We all know that travel has changed a...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 9, 20236 min read


The fallacy of Trump's 'two-tiered justice system' rant
To hear the two-tiered nature of the justice system enter national discourse is in fact exciting for many — but Trump’s framing of the...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 1, 20233 min read


The Stroll, A Documentary Review
The True Story of New York’s Meatpacking District History gets rewritten as time passes, and those who record it often do so from a...

Swop Behind Bars
Jun 22, 20234 min read


Disney Does DeSantis
Florida has always been a little wacky in its policies and legislation but there has never been such a public and vitreous spat between...

Swop Behind Bars
May 22, 20235 min read


The Clinic to Prison Pipeline
Society demonstrates the ways in which public identity and the politics of disgust are internalized and externalized through criminal...

Swop Behind Bars
May 12, 202316 min read
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