Category Archives: In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety

The San Francisco Standard: $2,000 monthly stipends helped these SF moms leave sex work behind

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Now that the no-strings-attached payments have stopped, some are unsure how they’ll get by. By Jennifer Wadsworth Published Nov. 13, 2025 Shantanae was desperate. Homeless after fleeing a violent ex and selling her body for a controlling pimp on a … Continue reading →

Public Release of Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco Pilot Results

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For immediate release November 5, 2025 Español abajo WHAT: Public Release of Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco Pilot Results WHEN: Wednesday, November 12, 12PM CONTACTS: Rachel West 415-640-4250 guaranteedcareincome@gmail.com; Sharon Lungo 562-659-1183 sharon@riseup.net Spanish Interpretation. Pre-interviews possible.   Groundbreaking San Francisco Pilot Addresses Poverty, … Continue reading →

“Stand In” to Protest San Francisco’s High Tech Surveillance Cameras and the Criminalization of Poverty

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On December 15, 2024, US PROStitutes Collective and others held an action to protest the new high tech surveillance cameras in the Mission district. Protestors stood on the corner of Shotwell and 21st beside one tower where the cameras are … Continue reading →

In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project Open House

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In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project celebrated its new office space with an Open House at the Crossroads Women’s Center on Friday, June 21, 2024. Rachel West, Sharon Lungo and Jane Welford (pictured above from left to right) welcomed … Continue reading →

Sex work and the city: How the policing of prostitution in San Francisco has evolved

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by Lydia Sidhom, Bay City News August 17, 2023 AS THE SUN sets over Capp Street in San Francisco’s Mission District each evening, the red lights turn on, and the neighborhood becomes the center for sex work in the city. Cars pass … Continue reading →

Help Stop Police Crackdown on Sex Workers in the Mission District, SF

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 Action Alert: Help Stop Police Crackdown on Sex Workers in the Mission District in San Francisco  A police and city crackdown on sex workers in the Mission District is targeting sex workers, particularly women of color, for harassment and arrest. Proposals to … Continue reading →

Watch Hookers in the House of the Lord Event. Livestream. December 10, 2022

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Listen to KPFA Letters and Politics interview with Selma James. December 5, 2022

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-december-5-2022/#playlist

40 Years After Sex Workers Took Over an English Church, the Fight for Justice Picks Up in San Francisco

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Written by Ida Mojadad The San Francisco Standard Published Dec. 10, 2022 • 7:30pm Sex workers in San Francisco first staged a direct action more than 100 years ago. | Ida Mojadad/The Standard In 1917, hundreds of San Francisco sex workers confronted a … Continue reading →