Good Tweets on the Situation at the Time

Ashley Judd and Seth Meyers Say They Want to Help Sex Workers. They Could Start by Shutting Up. https://t.co/VZ6SCmeQz2

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) November 26, 2019

2. Members of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF): https://t.co/ienEKZHqkR

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 24, 2019

This is the anti-LGBTQ group and host of the annual Value Voters Summit. They work closely with Human Trafficking NGO's that create harsh laws anti-sex work laws in all 50 states. https://t.co/dptwQHTaOW

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 20, 2019

@NYDailyNews, Ashley Judd, Seth Myers and his wife, Alexi Ashe Myers are joining other ANTI-sex work/ers labor and rights advocates who work and lobby with the most powerful and wealthy anti-abortion, LGBT and sex work lobbyists in the country --- to end the global sex industry.

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 26, 2019

The first thing that crossed my mind about that @MarieClaire article is the relationship(s) between Alexi Ashe Meyers and Anne Fulenwider. That who-you-know thingy.

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 26, 2019

2). I don't think many people realize that victims/survivors are propped up by wealthy anti-sex work NGO's at awareness events, seminars and conferences...and they're not paid.

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 25, 2019

The TIP Ambassador putting in a plug for Dressember, which benefits the NGO he used to work for. The month-long event also benefits anti-sex work NGO THORN, which partners w some of the wealthiest tech co's in the U.S. https://t.co/U5MheV3wmO

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 17, 2019

Ex-military and intelligence pros have started using AI to scan sex ads and send data to cops so they can arrest transgender persons, migrants and WoC who're targeted and arrested for a range of sex work laws---inc. promoting prostituiton and advertising! https://t.co/C98pRil35W

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 11, 2019

FOSTA lobbyists, including NCMEC, Salvation Army, FAIR Girls, Qanon Conspiracy Theorist and Mira Sorvino, join new anti-sex work alliance. According to Lynn Shaw--they've been on hill since Spring of 2019. https://t.co/akB8jAmuk3

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 16, 2019

I haven't seen a single reporter write on the anti-sex work leaders who are lobbying for the border wall and urging Congress to keep asylum seekers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 16, 2019

She's talking about Tim Ballard from Our Underground RailRoad, which does prostitution stings globally. A trafficking survivor was kicked off the council for responding to one of his op-eds. This is a pretty good illustration of how survivors are used to legitimize the system instead of the system being "victim centered". They aren't, they just claim to be. Survivors do have small amounts of power to gain from playing along, but as soon as they stray, they are kicked out.

Esp. concerning is that Piraino-Guzman—a survivor who worked w/the Council, Tweeted in response to a Ballard op-ed and was immediately removed. Ballard, on the other hand, is now on the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking. https://t.co/sbj7QgaICA

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 18, 2019

In Illinois, Marion Hatcher lobbied for FOSTA/SESTA and put the Cook County Jail, her employer, on the list of sex worker resources. The Cook County Jail is known as one of the most dangerous in the country. https://t.co/ioARx70OSl

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 17, 2019

This is an organization that takes in millions in government funding each year — money that *could* go to direct victims services but instead funds a telephone line & a six-figure salary for Polaris CEO Bradley Myles — yet refuses to even acknowledge Myles' disgraced departure

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) November 26, 2019

ICE has a section of its website dedicated to human trafficking. A lot of those airport posters list the same DHS number for reporting undocumented immigrants. https://t.co/2Vyfi9SLFA https://t.co/LqTi4ti7Mm

— You're Wrong About... (@yourewrongabout) November 26, 2019

Only a white feminist would call for a policy that puts more cops in black neighborhoods, gets even more woc deported, causes higher rates of homelessness among poor women and call it “progress for all women” https://t.co/1qzeUBeyuQ

— phoenix calida is excessivley black (@uppittynegress) November 24, 2019

Mayor Ashley Curry signed a faith-based initiative that will require all city staff to be trained on how to spot sex work / workers; and implements a "Trafficking-Free Zone", which is known to target people of color and poor people. https://t.co/JbnIymE42l

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 26, 2019

A reminder about the constant rebranding by sex work prohibitionists:

Nordic model isn’t decriminalization
End Demand isn’t decriminalization
Equality model isn’t decriminalization

Anything that gives police power over the livelihoods of sex workers isn’t decriminalization. https://t.co/RA76UsIHG4

— Eric Sprankle, PsyD (@DrSprankle) November 26, 2019

Prostitution sting targets Black transgender woman resulting in trafficking sentence of 8-14 years in prison. According to McLean's attorney, the then 17-yr-old told court officials that “Ms. McLean had no idea what I was doing.” https://t.co/wxvGZmuK45

— Carol Fenton (@cfpdx) November 19, 2019