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Carrying Life, Carrying Love: Pregnancy, Homelessness, and Two Cats Who Never Left
In my last post, I touched on what it meant to be pregnant while navigating homelessness and sex work. What I didn’t share then was how...

Frenchie
Sep 3, 20255 min read


Receipts Please! Myths Don't Stand A Chance!
Myth #4: Sex Workers Can Just “Get a Real Job” Reality: Many already have other jobs. Barriers like discrimination, criminal records,...

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 30, 20255 min read


Weekend Hot Takes - The Erasure of Women and Girls
We want to give credit where it’s due: More To Her Story, a youth-led feminist platform, was one of the first to sound the alarm on a deeply disturbing change in the 2023 U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports - the complete erasure of any dedicated section on women’s rights.

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 25, 20253 min read


Understanding the Myth: All Sex Workers Are Women
This myth isn’t just about who people imagine when they hear the words “sex worker.” It reflects who feminism has historically chosen to see and who it has chosen to leave out.

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 22, 20254 min read


Poshie Pets: Healing, Resilience, and the Power of Caring
You may remember Breyana from 2016, when she was released from prison after serving far too much time for something she never should’ve...

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 20, 20252 min read


Receipts Please! Myths Don't Stand a Chance!
Reality: Evidence from New Zealand and parts of Australia shows the opposite—decriminalization can improve safety, reduce exploitation, and increase cooperation with law enforcement for actual trafficking cases.

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 18, 20256 min read


Receipts, Please! Myths Don’t Stand a Chance
We bring you facts, figures, and context - not only so you can hold your own at the next policy meeting, but also so you can dismantle lazy arguments at the dinner table, on social media, or even in the comment section of that “concerned citizens” Facebook group your aunt keeps inviting you to.

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 14, 20254 min read


When Sport Turns to Moral Panic: Trafficking Rhetoric at Major Events
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup coming to North America, it’s already shaping up to be the “new” Super Bowl for trafficking rhetoric, complete with recycled myths, inflated statistics, and the same cast of anti-trafficking organizations eager to cash in on the global spotlight.

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 11, 20255 min read


The Importantance of Boundaries As A Single Mother and Sex Worker
Being in the sex industry started for me at the age of 20. I was raised in one of the most dangerous cities, Camden, New Jersey. I was a...

Ruthless
Aug 6, 20257 min read


Intersections of Sex Work, Violence and Incarceration
Violence and incarceration are everyday realities for people who trade sex. Fear of police encounters. Fear of arrest. Fear of being...

Swop Behind Bars
Aug 1, 20254 min read


Why Pregnant Sex Workers Deserve Dignity
Frenchie is a guest author, an 8 month pregnant sex worker artivist who wrote this blog post on her phone in the parking lot of a budget...

Frenchie
Jul 30, 20256 min read


Fantasy, Fallout, and the Politics of Outrage: The Ghislaine Maxwell Edition
This week, the national conversation once again spiraled around the so-called Epstein “client list.” The same question resurfaced:Where is it? Who’s on it? When will it be released? And just like every other time, the obsession with the list revealed more about the public’s craving for spectacle than their actual commitment to justice.

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 28, 20254 min read


The Truth Behind Anti-Trafficking Initiatives: A Closer Look at the System
Mandy was standing outside a 7-Eleven at dusk, texting a friend for a ride. Heels on, yes—but not the kind you wear to a strip club, just...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 25, 20254 min read


Puppy Break: Because Resistance Needs Belly Rubs Too
Let’s be real: The world is A LOT right now.From carceral crackdowns to moral panics, from housing crises to internet outrage cycles—some...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 23, 20253 min read


Weekend Hot Takes: The "Epstein List”
The sex worker rights movement has long explored how the public—and too often, the courts—struggle to grasp the realities of exploitation, especially when it hides behind wealth, consent, or celebrity. We’ve written about coercion, manipulation, and the blurry gray lines that survivors are expected to define in black and white.

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 21, 20255 min read


Why Carceral Feminism Gets Consent Wrong (Again).
Spoiler: If your feminism relies on police and prisons, it’s not protecting us—it’s punishing us. For a movement that claims to be rooted...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 18, 20254 min read


When the Bottom Falls Out: The Long-Term Damage of Today’s “Temporary” Economic Crises
It always starts as a whisper. “Budget cuts.” “Temporary furloughs.” “Streamlining.” But when you’re already living close to the...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 14, 20254 min read


The Gray is Real: The Complicated Nuance of Consent in Sex Work
By someone who's been there, done that, and had to explain it way too many times Consent is often framed as a clean, binary decision: yes...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 11, 20253 min read


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 7, 20254 min read


From Reentry to Registration - Navigating College After Incarceration
Jasmine held her acceptance letter with both hands like it might disintegrate. She had just been released from prison three months...

Swop Behind Bars
Jul 4, 20254 min read
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