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


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.

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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?

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Jun 252 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...

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Jun 205 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.

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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.

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Jun 135 min read


When Feminism Wears Lip Gloss: How Pink Patriarchy Undermines the Fight for Liberation
There’s a version of feminism out there that wears a pussyhat, clutches her pearls, and still calls the manager when a sex worker speaks at a panel.

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Jun 113 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.

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Jun 65 min read


Love in the Time of Liberation - How We Use Love Languages to Support Our People
Here’s how each love language shows up in our advocacy work, reimagined through the lens of solidarity, survival, and sex worker-centered support.

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May 144 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

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Apr 244 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,...

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Apr 184 min read


Slut Shaming and the Law
What happens when the law is wrong?

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Feb 35 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...

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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.

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Jan 108 min read


Behind the Rescue Door: The Intersection of Rules, Resources, and its impact on Healthcare in Anti-Trafficking Programs
For survivors of exploitation, and particularly with multiple intersecting issues like domestic violence,

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Jan 39 min read


Unlocking Second Chances:
The Role of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Support for Women Transitioning from Prison

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Dec 10, 20247 min read


Mass Incarceration: The Invisible Chains in Women's Prisons
Mass incarceration is not merely a statistical issue; it is a profound human rights crisis, disproportionately impacting women

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Dec 10, 20243 min read


What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Trauma-informed care (TIC) is an approach to healthcare, social services, and corrections that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma an

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Nov 24, 20249 min read


An Overlooked Healthcare Crisis
Women’s Healthcare Challenges in Prisons and Jails

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Nov 24, 20247 min read


What's So Hard About Listening to Sex Workers?
The anti-trafficking movement has faced significant criticism over the years, and for good reason.

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Nov 22, 20243 min read


The Future of End Demand Initiatives
Arrest and Incarceration using End Demand Initiative has long term intergenerational impacts that harm families.

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Nov 18, 20247 min read
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