This Is How Sex Workers Will Change the Law
Leave your thoughtsMore than 100 sex workers, trafficking survivors, and advocates traveled to Albany, New York, on Tuesday to lobby state lawmakers…
Category: Policing and Criminal Justice
DA Candidates Stake Out Positions on Sex Work Decriminalization
Leave your thoughtsJennifer Orellana, a transgender woman and former sex worker from Jackson Heights, asked six of the seven announced candidates for…
New York Sex Workers Are Working to Decriminalize Their Trade
Leave your thoughtsBianey García arrived in New York City from Mexico in January 2005, 14 years old, alone and without a warm…
‘The Police Act Like We Are Nothing’
Leave your thoughtsA new coalition of people in the sex trades wants New York to become the first state to fully decriminalize…
New York Lawmakers Join Activists in Fight to Decriminalize Sex Work
Leave your thoughtsDecrim NY is a new coalition of sex workers, state lawmakers, and advocacy groups who want to make New York…
Faces of Resistance
Leave your thoughtsNew York City is home to hundreds of activist groups, some of which have been at the frontlines for decades…
LI police reform advocates voice concerns over new consent decree guidelines
Leave your thoughtsPolice reform advocates and community activists are voicing concerns over new U.S. Department of Justice guidelines governing the use of…
CityViews: Black Women Call out the Mayor on Police Reform
Leave your thoughtsLast week’s incident caught on video of a Black woman at a city welfare center having her toddler viciously yanked…
There’s No Such Thing As a Low-Level Arrest When You’re Undocumented
Leave your thoughtsThis article is co-published with Documented, a New York City-based news organization that covers immigration issues in the City. Jessica,…
DOJ report: Suffolk makes policing improvements, work must continue
Leave your thoughtsThe Justice Department’s findings mark the first time in nearly five years of monitoring tied to the police department’s interactions…