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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · 25d

🎬 This #SxWorkersPride, ESWA invites sx workers to reclaim the narrative!
🎥 Record a 1-min video answering: What do you wish the world knew about sx work?
📅 Deadline: 15 Oct 2025
🎁 €30 voucher for selected entries
🔗 eswalliance.org/red_carpet
🟥 #RedLightsOnRedCarpet

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · 23d

Yesterday, ESWA launched Gold Standard Guidelines for Safe and Ethical Sex Work Research in Europe ⭐

Watch the launch webinar:
www.youtube.com/@sexworkeuro...

Read and share the research here: www.eswalliance.org/gold_standard

New Research: Gold Standard Guidelines for Safe and Ethical Sex Work Research in Europe

www.eswalliance.org

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · 25d

🎬 This #SxWorkersPride, ESWA invites sx workers to reclaim the narrative!
🎥 Record a 1-min video answering: What do you wish the world knew about sx work?
📅 Deadline: 15 Oct 2025
🎁 €30 voucher for selected entries
🔗 eswalliance.org/red_carpet
🟥 #RedLightsOnRedCarpet

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Sep 8

💛 ESWA developed Gold Standard Guidelines, setting clear standards that put sx workers’ rights, safety, and voices at the centre of research.
Online launch: 16 Sept 2025, 14:30 CET

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Jul 31

Deepfakes are growing rapidly, yet sx workers’ voices are often excluded from research and policymaking. Your input is critical: this survey will help us understand the challenges our community faces & ensure that future policies are informed by lived experience.

www.eswalliance.org/sw_on_deepfa...

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Jul 28

We’re thrilled to announce that applications are now open for the BIPOC Sex Worker Academy 2: Racial Justice and Digital Rights, taking place 4–7 November 2025 in Barcelona, Spain! www.eswalliance.org/bipocacademy2

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Jul 9

#Opportunity for sx workers + allies interested in #DigitalRights, policy, and internet governance.

→ www.eswalliance.org/policy_offic...

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Jun 17

Want a recap of June 2? Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_h7...

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Jun 17

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Jun 17

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Jun 17

We did it! Read here about the actions that took place across Europe for International Sx Workers’ Day!

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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · Jun 1

Cannot stop staring at this. How can you claim to support sex workers while also arguing they're too stupid to advocate for themselves?

"These women sound too smart, therefore, it's safe to assume they are actually men"

Beyond dehumanizing.

ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

3/16 MP Gudrun Nordborg: ‘I was subjected to a mailstorm from those who call themselves sx workers. How can people without education express themselves so eloquently? There’s a pimp on another level who writes these emails’

🧨 This isn’t just classist, it’s dehumanising.

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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · Jun 1

People who assume sex workers are uneducated don't actually know any sex workers.

I have three college degrees and over a decade of classroom teaching experience.

That's the case for most of the SWers I know.

ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

3/16 MP Gudrun Nordborg: ‘I was subjected to a mailstorm from those who call themselves sx workers. How can people without education express themselves so eloquently? There’s a pimp on another level who writes these emails’

🧨 This isn’t just classist, it’s dehumanising.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 29

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 29

🎉 3 days left to go! Can you believe it?

💌 RSVP to join, or on- or offline.
An opportunity like this only comes once every 50 years 😉 more info here: eswalliance.org/50years

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

16/16 What do you think of these arguments? Let these members of parliament know how all their arguments can be easily debunked. Let them know what the impact is of their paternalistic actions!

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

15/16 Sanna Backeskog, Pontus Garpvall, Martin Melin, Vilhelmsson, Nordborg: shame on you for acknowledging that you received a flood of opposition from everywhere, and yet still chose to ignore the concerned voices, and even falsely portray them as voiceless, illiterate victims of pimps.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

14/16 Shame on Sanna Backeskog, Pontus Garpvall, Martin Melin, Vilhelmsson, Nordborg. Your blatantly classist, anti-feminist and ignorant attitude towards sex work is not just deeply offensive; it is dangerous. Your new law will bring nothing but more surveillance, deportations and violence.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

13/16 Swedish lawmakers prove they are not interested in listening to the most marginalised. They'd rather talk over them, ignore decades of research and calls from thousands of organisations and experts to sacrifice human rights for a paternalistic ideology.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

12/16 MP Helena Vilhelmsson: 'it’s so important that an exit programme for leaving prostitution is implemented asap.'

🔁 Reality: you can’t 'exit' people from poverty without giving viable alternatives. Exit programmes when criminalising are not support, they’re vulgar coercion.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

11/16 MP Helena Vilhelmsson: 'we must protect the vulnerable woman in every way, because how else is she supposed to have the strength to bring the criminal buyer to justice'

🔁 Reality: asylum seekers have their allowances decreased by the Swedish State, are you protecting anybody?

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

10/16 MP Helena Vilhelmsson: ‘I'm genuinely happy today. Online sx purchasing has become normalised. But it leads to the same vulnerability as when selling sx physically'

🔁 Reality: 'Normalised' isn’t a dirty word. Many sx workers choose online platforms for more safety, not less.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

9/16 MP Pontus Andersson Garpvall: ‘Regarding OnlyFans, those who do it voluntarily might have trauma from childhood that influences their decision’

🔁 Reality: Trauma doesn’t erase consent. People make complex choices in all kinds of work. Singling out sex work reinforces stigma, not care.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

8/16 MP Sanna Backeskog: ‘adult content is often a gateway to more serious prostitution and a life marked by abuse and poor mental health.’

🔁 Reality: What fuels harm isn’t the medium: it's stigma & criminalisation. Taking autonomy doesn’t protect: it pushes people underground.

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ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 28

7/16 MP Martin Melin: ‘The "happy hooker," does she or he exist? Possibly, but people in prostitution are victims. That is our current stance’

🔁 Reality: When your ‘stance’ denies sx workers' voices, it’s not protection, you just punish people for surviving outside your norms.

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