Ultimately, “By and For” functions as a living archive built by sex workers themselves, undiluted by institutions that have ...

Margo St. James, a noted sex-positive feminist and pioneer of the sex workers' rights movement, died January 11 at age 83. Ms. St. James had been living in a memory care facility in Washington state ...

Sex workers in Belgium have been given the right to health insurance, maternity leave, sick pay and other employment benefits under a new world-first law. The new legislation will allow sex workers to ...

The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act... Belgium made history on Sunday as the first country ...

Mastercard’s new policy regulating adult content sellers goes into effect today. This is bad news for many sex workers, whose safety and livelihoods depend on access to financial services and online ...

We formed a union to resist the violence of mainstream treatment. Collaboration will be the key to our success ...

Tara Burns has been on my radar for a decade, but I didn't have the pleasure of actually speaking with her until last week. A sex worker, writer, researcher, and activist who lives off the grid in ...

About three dozen people who identified themselves as sex workers and illegal vendors rallied along Queen’s seedy “Market of Sweethearts” Tuesday, calling on cops to turn down the heat so they can ...

In 2024, Belgium passed pioneering legislation granting sex workers full employment rights, including access to maternity leave, health insurance, unemployment benefits and pension rights. ENTR ...

At the beginning of September, South Africa’s Western Cape High Court will hear a case that could finally end the criminalization of sex work in the country. It’s a moment decades in the making, which ...

Sex workers Tuesday came out in numbers to demand their rights and to appeal to the society for acceptance. They castigated members of Kenyan society and the justice system, which they argued, gave ...