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Lysistrata Co-op
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THE ORIGINAL National US online $olidarity group & 200 member co-op by/for SWs founded in 2016! A rougenetwork.bsky.social project. No DMs, please email [email protected] rougesupportnetwork.org/lysistratacoop
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Feb 4
We've been quiet lately while we work on assessing what's safe for public communication where, working on ways to tighten up some security, and doing internal structuring work but the work continues as conditions deteriorate quickly!
Image 1, a screenshot from @ PenGwenwithLC reads: I'm going to be very blunt about this. We are going to see a LOT more people in need of mutual aid to cover food between the soaring food prices and the last vestiges of our societal safety nets being dismantled. People are going to starve without community support. Image 2, a screenshot from @ TheRealJChubby reads: Nothing should radicalize people more than seeing Trump blow through all the barriers Democrats always said were stopping them from delivering meaningful change. Image 3, screenshot from @ allie.gay reads: You need to understand that in 11 days, Trump has advanced anti-transgender policies to near genocidal intensity. Passports have been denied. ID documents confiscated. Banned Trans medicine from those >19y. Essentially banned Trans people from using the bathroom. Image 4, screenshot from @ wyden.senate.gov reads: NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social · Feb 26
Remember when sex workers' rights advocates begged people to start using the word "trafficking" properly because misuse would only lead to an ever expanding definition that would result in finding ways to criminalize people for non trafficking offenses?

Pepperidge farm remembers.
valetparker.bsky.social Valet Parker * Las Vegas @valetparker.bsky.social · Feb 26
What in the country fried fuck is going on??

jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Feb 14
Roses are red, violets are blue, to end mass incarceration there is lots of work to do.

Happy Valentines Day
Infographic text: Love may be priceless, but the US carceral system costs taxpayers $182 billion every year.
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💲Cuntersen @road5tripper.bsky.social · Feb 11
But of course orgs even serving SWs (not even doing SW related transactions) aren't allowed to move funds this freely
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𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔖𝔦𝔯𝔦 𝔇𝔞𝔥𝔩🧛🏻‍♀️ @siridahl.com · Feb 11
Annnnnd that’s why I sold all my Shopify stock today
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Feb 11
Shopify is happily processing the sales for the Yeezy swastika shirt.

Tell me again why porn stars can't get sales processing but a Nazi can.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Feb 10
He got access to our data fiscally vamoosed 8 billion and now wants to buy Open Ai

DO NOT PUT A SINGLE THING MORE IN CHAT GPT
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Feb 10
In a high-stakes bid that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk is leading a group of investors that have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion.
Elon Musk leads a group of investors that want to buy ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI | CNN Business
Elon Musk is leading a group of investors that have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion.
www.cnn.com
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · Feb 9
Its not just that the sex trafficking myths around the super bowl make life harder for sex workers, it's that the diversion of resources and media attention makes stories like this go under the radar for most people
brian-goldstone.bsky.social Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Feb 9
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · Feb 7
The ONE Project 2025 talking point Dems, and everyone else frankly, actively avoided talking about was the banning of “porn.”

Now y’all want to talk about it after the architect of P2025 is confirmed.

I hope y’all are happy.
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Feb 4
We have been prioritizing this type of work to be as ready as possible for circumstances like this and we could have been so much more ready with more resources, but it isn't too late to support community based cash distribution systems heavily now!

tinyurl.com/RSNnetworkur...
Support the Lysistrata UBI & other Network Programming!
Several of our network groups are facing urgent funding shortfalls going into the second half of this year! Over the next few months, we are trying to raise funds to cover:-The next two quarterly supp...
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Feb 4
Please consider this a key time to set up monthly donations if you don't already, our membership is 67% LGBTQIA, 79% PoC, 74% Chronically ill/Disabled, 62% houseless /housing instable, 45% parenting/caregiving members & it is made up of the exact people they are trying to cut off from resources.
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Feb 4
This rapid escalating of conditions cutting people off from their benefits means that if we can pull together the funds to do larger and more frequent payments, these next few months especially are a key time to do so.

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Help Us Maintain Our Emergency Fund & Pay Multiply Marginalized SWs!! | Lysistrata Cooperative (Powered by Donorbox)
We are an ~200 member activist co-op operating nationally in the United States run by and for current/former sex workers founded in 2016 and we could use your support! (As a non-501c3 entity contribut...
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Feb 4
So far, we've distributed 8000 in winter supplemental income payments to the ~200 general Lysistrata members since International Day to End Violence Against SWs and are in good shape to stay on our quarterly payment system for March, and we are already grant writing for the next cycle in the summer.
Image 5 Support a Universal Basic Income for SWs https://tinyurl.com/RSNnetworkurgentsupport
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Feb 4
We've been quiet lately while we work on assessing what's safe for public communication where, working on ways to tighten up some security, and doing internal structuring work but the work continues as conditions deteriorate quickly!
Image 1, a screenshot from @ PenGwenwithLC reads: I'm going to be very blunt about this. We are going to see a LOT more people in need of mutual aid to cover food between the soaring food prices and the last vestiges of our societal safety nets being dismantled. People are going to starve without community support. Image 2, a screenshot from @ TheRealJChubby reads: Nothing should radicalize people more than seeing Trump blow through all the barriers Democrats always said were stopping them from delivering meaningful change. Image 3, screenshot from @ allie.gay reads: You need to understand that in 11 days, Trump has advanced anti-transgender policies to near genocidal intensity. Passports have been denied. ID documents confiscated. Banned Trans medicine from those >19y. Essentially banned Trans people from using the bathroom. Image 4, screenshot from @ wyden.senate.gov reads: NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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Becky Taha'Blu @beckytahablu.bsky.social · Dec 18
December 17th memorials and the closure of spaces like Boyztown highlight the need for visibility mourning and reclamation These losses aren’t isolated they reflect a system that erases nonconformity

#EndViolence #InternationalDayToEndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers #D17 #Fundraiser #JusticeForSexWorkers
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swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social · Dec 12
I have a lot of thoughts when compiling the December 17 list, and it includes what type of trends we see.

www.thedecember17thproject.org/blog/the-dev...
The Devil Is In The Demographics — The December 17th Project
The December 17th list is many things. It is a list of names of sex workers to be memorialized, a way to remember those we have lost, a way to share hope while celebrating the tenacity of the sex ...
www.thedecember17thproject.org
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Rouge Support Network @rougenetwork.bsky.social · Dec 11
✊️☂️ We're in the final countdown to this year's International Day to End Violence Against SW events, here's where you can find our members if you're looking for an event to join:
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Rouge Support Network @rougenetwork.bsky.social · Dec 11
-Friday, December 13th @hellsbellsswhc @slutwalkdenver.bsky.social and @bswc_lca will be gathering for a SW only meal at 6pm and an open community event starting at 7pm 🎤 RSVP: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Thin Ice Beneath Our Pleasers: A Nation in Flames (Denver IDEVASW 2024)
🔥❄️ Thin Ice Beneath Our Pleasers: A Nation in Flames ❄️🔥  Join us for the 7th Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers as we reflect, resist, and heal.  📅 Date:Friday, December 13...
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Rouge Support Network @rougenetwork.bsky.social · Dec 11
-Tuesday, December 17th we host an online virtual showcase with @lysistratamccf starting at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT, shoot us an email if you're a SW who has questions about sharing your art ✒️ RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Rouge Support Network @rougenetwork.bsky.social · Dec 11

-Tuesday, December 17th @redlightdistrictbytwo will be hosting a SW only event, dm them on IG to get the location info 🌹
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Rouge Support Network @rougenetwork.bsky.social · Dec 11
-Saturday, December 21st @p.m.gran.te and @creepispacestudio will be including a vigil space and materials on Pueblo's SW history as part of their second annual Slut Soiree @theethospueblo ❤️
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Sep 3
We really really need folks to come through in tangible ways right now, one person can't keep holding down this resource this way!!!
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Sep 3
On top of this, we're 2 months behind on covering emergency fund amounts for Whose Corner Is It Anyway members while their own fundraising struggles in addition to the stacked up requests from the last couple of weeks requests haven't been processed.
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Sep 3
If we wait until enough recurring donations to come through to reopen the fund it'll be at least another week or two, leaving us several more weeks that we won't be able to do referrals for street based @p.m.gran.te drop in recipients and we're also short to cover $20 stipends at tomorrow's drop in.
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Lysistrata Co-op @lysistratamccf.bsky.social · Sep 3
The only donations our fundraiser has recieved in the past two weeks have been the handful hustled in person at Pueblo Pride by the same member who does all of our volunteer admin in addition to the on the ground work here.
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