NJRUA

New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance (NJRUA) - promoting the needs & rights of sex workers working in the Garden State.

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

NJRUA is building a peer-led sex worker support group! We would like to hear from the community in and around NJ, NY, PA, or DC (and those online). For more info, go to https://t.co/ULyJNhNETY or scan below.

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

We've learned of the recent passing of activist Emi Koyama, whose work was foundational to many movements, including sex workers' rights. Rest in Power, and thank you for your scholarship and insights

[MUBI @mubi]

Marjane Satrapi (1969 — 2026)

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

This International Whores' Day, NJRUA and the Sex Workers Rights Coalition are demanding #RightsNotRescue and New Jersey lawmakers stop pushing a false trafficking narrative around World Cup games. https://t.co/dYOWRoRIkU
#RightsNotRescue #IWD2026 #IWD #FIFA #WorldCup2026

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

TODAY: Hundreds of thousands in Minnesota braved -10°F weather to march through downtown Minneapolis as part of the statewide general strike demanding ICE out of the Twin Cities.

[SWEET (Sex Workers Educating & Empowering Texans) @sweet_atx]

🌍Yesterday, members of the U.S. 𝗦𝗲𝘅 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 hosted a 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 #UPR50 side session at the 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 in 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗮, 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, despite the U.S. government's withdrawal from this process of international accountability.

Representatives from 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 @nj_rua , and 𝗦𝗲𝘅 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝘀 @sweet_atx presented data and recommendations on 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦.

Afterwards, we launched a free digital magazine, 𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙, as a companion to our two 𝗨𝗣𝗥 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 submitted in 2025. The pages of Being Heard hold our community’s answers to the following questions: 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙? 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙘𝙮, 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝, 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚𝙩𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜?

This magazine features art and writing from those too often excluded from human rights conversations: trans people, migrants, people of color, disabled people, and disenfranchised workers. It echoes the findings described in our reports: 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱.

❤️‍🔥 Read and share the magazine: https://t.co/xS80udfRu7

and our UPR reports: https://t.co/mRtrtAiAvD and our UPR reports ❤️‍🔥

𝙒𝙚 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠, 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙.

#SexWorkerRights #UPR50 #HumanRights #RightsNotRescue #GlobalSolidarity

[YAS Work @YASWorkOrg]

https://t.co/6yHfsbLJH7

[YAS Work @YASWorkOrg]

Recent Episode: Coalition of the Determined with BPPP and @NJRUA

[SWEET (Sex Workers Educating & Empowering Texans) @sweet_atx]

The Sex Workers Rights Coalition has issued an open letter demanding accountability from the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA), the largest annual HIV/AIDS convening in the country.

Read, share, and sign on in support: https://t.co/p8TjAlwLvP

#2025USCHA

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

Open letter to the organizers of #2025USCHA RE: ongoing patterns of exclusion, inadequate safety planning, and failure to support marginalized communities meaningfully. https://t.co/gqDF3Qm99A

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

We’ve earned our Bronze Seal of Transparency with @CandidDotOrg! Get updates on our impact through our #NonprofitProfile https://t.co/ai2VpNxwmH

[NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice @NJAIJ]

New Jersey still doesn’t have a heat standard for workers.

We need @SenPresScutari @SpeakerCoughlin to protect workers from heat and ICE with the #ImmigrantTrustAct and Heat Standard Bill!

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

This Sunday July 20 - storytelling meets activism meets burlesque at Crystal Lake Brooklyn - https://t.co/3qmBXI223Z

[Bobby Brier @bobby_brier]

Harm reduction advocates protested at the Senate voting session moments ago over a proposal in the upcoming state budget that would divert $45 million in opioid settlement funds to 4 hospitals without identifying what these funds would be used for. ⁦⁦@NJSpotlightNews⁩

[zellie @zellieimani]

BLM Paterson, NJ Harm Reduction Coalition and other advocates were kicked out of the NJ state house after protesting NJ’s move to give almost $50 million to certain hospitals facing budget shortfalls, no strings attached.

All while harm reduction groups are giving pennies.

[Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) @SWAIIreland]

Sex workers' family members *have* been criminalised in Ireland under the same laws the UK want to introduce. "Living off the earnings" of a sex worker is written so broadly that the husband of a sex worker was prosecuted here in 2018.

https://t.co/PxORSilbpu

[NSWP @GlobalSexWork]

Decriminalising sex work is essential to the realisation of reproductive justice. My body, my choice. #SexWorkIsWork #WeAreNotProstituted #HRC59

https://t.co/pkxr2mwN28

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - The Sex Workers Rights Coalition to Address US human rights violations at the United Nations https://t.co/yt0F0KeiTY #PressRelease #SexWorkersRights #UnitedNations

[NorthJersey.com @northjersey]

Planning to vote in New Jersey's June 10 primary? This is what you need to know https://t.co/1eBSVvTd0N

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

It's only "acceptable" to talk on our community when we are corpses, a joke, or a cautionary tale. When we are decriminalized *FULL STOP* other movements will be decriminalized. So we our liberation is tied to your liberation.

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

Our Executive Director N'jaila Rhee will be speaking on the @AllAboveAll panel Unification for Liberation: A Collective Front in Cross Movement with activists from Trans Haven/Peer Pride, @GSEquality (Garden State Equality), and @ArdellasHouse (Ardella's House)

[NJRUA @NJRUA]

To be respected, we need more than an invitation to the table especially when we helped build the table. Sex workers have spearheaded many rights movements because of the idea of not participating in "dignified" work.