Decrim PA

We have changed our name to match our current goals...Pennsylvania wants full decriminalization of prostitution and related offenses ✊ legislation #DecrimPA 🔞

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

Pennsylvania is ready for full decriminalization of prostitution and related offenses. ✊✊✊

#savePA #DecrimPA

Will your org sign on?
Say YES to removing prostitution and related offenses from Pennsylvania crimes code!

Will your org sign on? ✊
https://t.co/0jWNgfRbOi

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

They use the super bowl as a reason to arrest FSSWers. 🤬

This not only harms sex workers, it removes resources from sex trafficking survivors.

End conflation, save lives.

[SurvivorSiblings @SurvivorSibs]

Psst:
The sex trafficking/super bowl hype is false, it is fabricated marketing by the anti-trafficking movement. Anti-trafficking orgs provide no real resources to survivors. Their marketing is to create a moral panic to fill their own greedy pockets.

#ListenToSurvivors

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

True diversion = meeting peoples basic survival needs...this isn't how to do that 👇😥

[Matt Dugan @MattDuganIII]

@reads_long True diversion: pre-plea. An opportunity to resolve cases without the burden of a criminal record. Additionally, we’ll promote/expand LEAD (law enforcement assisted diversion) for pre-arrest diversion.

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

@MattDugan4DA Does that mean your office would stop targeting and prosecuting prostitutes? Would you then reallocate funding to go after child and adult rapists...and NOT the clients of prostitutes?

Child sex traffickers are one of the biggest threats to public safety.

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

@MattDugan4DA @reads_long LEAD = Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion = go to this program that doesn't have any real resources and jump through their hoops or go to jail. It is a form of coercion and against PA law. 🤦‍♀️

Prostitites, substance users and disabled people don't need targeted by this program.

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

US Sex Workers - please take a few minutes to fill this out. @Coyoteri continues to do work to protect our community, can you please help?

[@COYOTERI @CoyoteRi]

lawmakers.
Have you ever been the victim or witness of a work-related violent crime? Add your story to the story bank at the link below!
https://t.co/ndgKN5fPVW

[@COYOTERI @CoyoteRi]

ATTENTION US SEX WORKERS

COYOTE is collecting stories to support a bill for immunity for sex workers and sex trafficking survivors reporting violent crimes to police. Surveys are a way that we can bring the voices of criminalized people who would rather remain anonymous to

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

The Pennsylvania House refused to allow HB1381 to have a public hearing or be brought to a vote. It is disappointing that PA lawmakers don't care about protecting FSSWers & trafficking survivors.

Thank you to @SurvivorSibs for collaboration on this effort.

1,500 hrs wasted 😥

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

Want to submit testimony? DM us and we will help you prepare in anyway we can.

Testimony can be submitted anonymously.

More details coming in January.

Until then we are going to regroup and relax for the holidays.

Keep your head high, we are not done fighting to survive. ✊

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

The Pennsylvania House refused to allow HB1381 to have a public hearing or be brought to a vote. It is disappointing that PA lawmakers don't care about protecting FSSWers & trafficking survivors.

Thank you to @SurvivorSibs for collaboration on this effort.

1,500 hrs wasted 😥

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

January 2023 we move on the plan b, which includes submitting testimony digitally, RTK requests to recieve testimony & publishing on a website.

If lawmakers won't listen, perhaps community deserves to hear the reality of abuse FSSWers & trafficking survivors experience in PA.

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

Can anyone send a few bucks to help our sister org raise funds for this survivor? She is also a member of our community.

Every dollar helps 🙏

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

Can anyone send a few bucks to help our sister org raise funds for this survivor? She is also a member of our community.

Every dollar helps 🙏

[SurvivorSiblings @SurvivorSibs]

We are raising funds for a sex trafficking survivor who is facing eviction. She was assaulted & unable to work while she healed.

Can 20 people send $20 bucks to help kick off this fundraising, we would be grateful. 🙏

Cash app $DearGabbyGFE

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

Sex work is real work.
Blow jobs are real jobs.

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

Sex work is real work.
Blow jobs are real jobs.

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

If you worked before April 11, 2018 and after, please fill out this survey.

We need our community represented, and this is an excellent way we can do that.

Please take this quick survey for @Coyoteri

[Gabby - Activism/Author Account @TheGabbyMonroe]

Ending child sex trafficking is a hard conversion to have. Nobody wants to talk about the evil that happens to children. It hurts.

We look the other way.

NO MORE

We must have the hard conversions and protect children. Sex trafficking is a form of rape. Protect kids from rape.

[Gabby - Activism/Author Account @TheGabbyMonroe]

The biggest takeaway for campinging the polls yesterday (10+ feet away) is that folks are not ready to hear about how to protect children from sex trafficking, because they don't have adequate information on what is actually happening to children in the system.

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[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

Sex work is work 👏

https://t.co/X2NYrliPsK

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

In addition to working on legislation, Decrim PA has a condom & narcan distribution program in 5 counties:

Allegheny
Westmoreland
Washington
Beaver
Penn State

Need something? Hit us up.
SWers only please.

[Decrim PA @DecrimPA]

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