Decoding Stigma

Designing a future in which sexually stigmatized voices are amplified and celebrated. Autonomously affiliated with @hackinghustling.

[School For Poetic Computation @sfpc]

We believe that radical possibilities for new platforms exist, especially those that emphasize social bonds that go beyond the transactional relationships under capitalism. Check out some projects by teachers, participants, guests, and organizations who are doing the work:

[Decoding Stigma @DecodingStigma]

Incredible opportunity 💖

[Mistress Blunt - NYC Dominatrix and ProDomme @MistressBlunt]

SWers who work in tech (and fit eligibility requirements below) you should check out @logic_magazine's Logic School Season 2.

They are accepting applications for their 2023 cohort through January 6th.

Apply here: https://t.co/LjvNiRCpaJ

[Decoding Stigma @DecodingStigma]

Decoding Stigma was selected for the @grayareaorg @sfgoethe C/Change R&D Lab to incubate our project, BROWSER HISTORIES. We have aligned with 2 community-led projects, a direct result of the growing demand for the recognition/inclusion of SWer genius.
https://t.co/8QUN8dcEzL

[Decoding Stigma @DecodingStigma]

A little late with the news, but so excited to be part of the C/Change fellowship with @sfgoethe and @GrayAreaorg

[Goethe-Institut San Francisco @sfgoethe]

C/Change PROJECT TEAM SPOTLIGHT:
Browser Histories by @stabriella & @liviatronic of @DecodingStigma

A participatory database + archive, designed by & for sex working communities, documenting intertwined histories of sex work & technology.
Find out more: https://t.co/UiGtIWqtD6

[Decoding Stigma @DecodingStigma]

Does anyone have any leads for a database/sql developer who wants to help a SW-led project prototype? pls dm!!

[carol_leigh @carol_leigh]

SB357 repealed!! The evil California law, 653.22 loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, created years of misery, punishment, misogyny—discrimination against women of color, especially trans women of color. Thanks DecrimSWCA, @ACLU_SoCal and all who supported this.

[We Are Dancers USA @WeAreDancersUSA]

June 2nd is coming up. Drop your events & celebrations below!!

#SupportSexWorkers
#InternationalWhoresDay
#RightsNotRescue

[Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project @MaggiesToronto]

Join us tomorrow night for #InternationalWhoresDay from 6-8pm to learn more about our work, meet our staff team and get the run down on upcoming projects!

📩Register at https://t.co/6hS13AA3Qc

[Third Wave Fund @3Wave]

Today, we honor #InternationalWhoresDay by upholding vibrant sex worker elders and leaders whose wisdom has taught us that without dismantling and abolishing white supremacist carceral systems, decriminalization will never be enough to keep sex workers safe 🌹

[whoreganizer.bsky.social @whoreganizer]

happy #internationalwhoresday don’t forget that sex workers demanding labor rights has nothing to do with being ‘happy’ at work and everything to do with building collective power

[Bay Area Workers Support @BAWSupport]

Also coming up in celebration of #IWD2022 : Join your fellow workers and @comebystjames June 4th for a solidarity march in SF!

[Elizabeth Nolan Brown @ENBrown]

In honor of #IWD2022, I want to share some of @reason’s best work on sex worker rights, including articles & mini-docs from @Maggie_McNeill @qinlinglivj @PaulDetrick @jomc & @ThaddeusRussell (and, yes, I'm going to share a lot of my own work, too). Here goes...

[HIPS @HIPSDC]

Join us at Freedom Plaza today! #RightsNotRescue

[National Ugly Mugs @NationalUglyMug]

Today is #InternationalSexWorkersDay (also known as #InternationalWhoresDay).

The theme of the day is "access to justice", a theme which not only speaks the the historical origins of the day, but a vital and fundamental right that sex workers are still routinely denied.

[Support Ho(s)e @supporthosechi]

🖤Still loving this zine!🖤For #InternationalWhoresDay, the #IWDZine is a resource for sex workers' rights with art that conveys the struggle against racist, anti-immigrant, classist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic conditions. Download the zine: https://t.co/K61ZYLrksZ

[English Collective of Prostitutes ♀️ 🏳️‍⚧️ @ProstitutesColl]

Sending love & power to sex workers around the world on #InternationalWhoresDay ✊🏿✊���✊🏼 2 June marks the day in 1975 when 150+ sex workers occupied the Church of St. Nizier in Lyon, France. A banner was hung over the church façade 'Our children don't want their mothers in prison'

[IWRAW Asia Pacific @IWRAW_AP]

Sex workers' rights are migrant rights. On #InternationalSexWorkersDay, let's take a look at the racial profiling and discrimination attached to criminalisation models, including 'End Demand'. You can find more information in @GlobalSexWork's policy brief: https://t.co/AcVct2T7Fe

[Eurydice Aroney @eekiemout]

It’s time again! June 2nd is #Internationalwhoresday when we celebrate the daring tricks and whorestorical delights of the 1975 French #sexworkers strike.

So if you dig a good #whorestory join me as I reach into the archives (if I can get it together).

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[#SurvivedAndPunished @survivepunish]

As we enter Pride month, we’re reminded of the disproportionate criminalization of trans, queer, and gender nonconforming communities, particular for those who are also survivors of sexual and domestic violence. 🧵 1/10