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Another Multiracial Family Falsely Accused of Sex Trafficking While Flying ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 9.10.2019 9:30 AM (Alexey Bychkov/ZUMA Press/Newscom) Lawsuit alleges profiling by Frontier Airlines. In what's becoming a sadly regular occurrence, another multiracial family has been profiled by airline staff as being involved in human trafficking. In this case, 55-year-old Peter DelVecchia, a white man, was traveling with his adopted 12-year-old son, who is black. According to a lawsuit...
Published 09/14/19
Phoenix discusses #GoodCops who tarteg trans sex workers, the end of PornWikiLeaks, and South Africa contemplates decriminalizing sex work.
Published 09/06/19
For nearly a decade, Backpage has been demonized by politicians, denounced in legislatures, and dramatically mischaracterized by the press, Hollywood, and well-funded activist groups. As early as 2010, top prosecutors from 21 states claimed the classified-ad platform was "exploiting women and children." In 2012 Washington state passed the first (but not last) law aimed specifically at toppling Backpage, and by 2015 U.S. senators were investigating the company. Though the Department of...
Published 09/01/19
Hey gang. Phoenix Calida is back with another SWOPcast and you patreon subscribers are getting it first before it lands on the socialized feed. Thank you for holding it down for the Wine Cellar.
Published 08/29/19
Hey gang. This is Patreon Early Access And will Socialized on Monday morning. 8/12/19
Published 08/12/19
Guest: Karen Culpepper from KLCC Collective, who launching a line of herbal based healing products for sexworkers. Her work will be featured in the sacred whore product line which will be launched next week, 9/13/19 by Swop USA
Published 08/09/19
Hey gang. Long for episode of SWOPcast here. Strap in and get ready for a serious conversation regarding the goings on of Sex Workers Outreach.
Published 07/26/19
Phoenix Calida address a decades old resurfacing rhetorical practice of racist transphobia.
Published 07/22/19
Coming off an article in the Huffington Post, Phoenix Calida digs into the topic.
Published 07/12/19
By Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi jury has awarded a total of more than $3 million to five African American strippers after a federal judge found the women worked under worse conditions than their white colleagues. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate ruled in the discrimination case last year. After a trial that lasted nearly a week on the question of damages, jurors decided Wednesday that the women would split $3.3 million for back pay and past and future suffering. The...
Published 07/10/19
Hey gang. Phoenix Calida is working around having a very hard time with the health insurance companies because.... "afordable care" and is getting back into doing the SwopCast.
Published 07/08/19
Phoenix Calida breaks down a recent Teen Vogue article for those that don't know.
Published 06/18/19
Experts Believe a Serial Killer Is Behind 51 Unsolved Strangulation Cases in Chicago This. Is. Horrifying. by HANNAH SMOTHERS  JUN 7, 2019 KATIE BUCKLEITNER A fresh look into dozens of unsolved strangulation homicides in Chicago suggests that the murders could be the work of a serial killer who’s been targeting women in the city since at least 2001. Crime experts with the Murder Accountability Project, a D.C.-based nonprofit group that tracks unsolved homicides in the United States, used a...
Published 06/11/19
Hey gang. We're still crossposting this show with the regular wine cellar to get more folks aware it even exists. Thanks for checking it out.
Published 06/10/19
As Prostitution-Related Charges Double In D.C., Lawmakers Are Reintroducing A Sex Work Decriminalization Bill Safe Night Access Project in Seattle volunteers show some of the products they give away to sex workers and other people who ask for as part of providing harm reduction services along a north Seattle strip known for prostitution. Elaine Thompson / AP Photo A bill that would decriminalize sex work in Washington D.C. will be reintroduced at the D.C. Council on Tuesday, this time...
Published 06/06/19
Mexico City will decriminalize sex work in move against trafficking Mexico City lawmakers have given the green light to decriminalize sex work in the capital, hoping it will be a first step to a crackdown on sex trafficking that traps thousands of Mexican women and children. Lawmakers in Mexico City’s congress on Friday voted 38-0, with eight abstentions, in favor of a bill to remove a line in the civic culture law which said prostitutes and their clients can be fined or arrested if neighbors...
Published 06/05/19
Hey gang. Phoenix Calida is struggling with illness and still using some strength to get on the microphone and deliver some sex workers rights news and comment.
Published 05/29/19
On November 25, 2017, Yang Song died after falling from a 4th floor balcony during a targeted police raid. Her personal messages revealed that in 2016, she was raped at gunpoint by an undercover police officer and she tried to report the incident
Published 05/24/19
TEXT FROM - www.warren.senate.gov Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today applauded the House passage of the bipartisan End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would aid financial institutions in identifying and reporting instances of human trafficking, so that offenders can be prosecuted and victims can be protected. Senators Warren and Rubio originally introduced the companion legislation in the Senate on April 26, 2017. The...
Published 05/23/19
Phoenix Calida breaks down two news stories help explain how anti sex work and liberation ideas make toxic environments and marginalize people.
Published 05/13/19
Phoenix Calida opens up riffing about celebrity support and then goes into some horrific and triggering stories along with lies told by TERFS
Published 05/10/19
Phoenix Calida covers DecrimNY, and their recent success in pushing for a new law that will allow survivors of sex trafficking to expunge their criminal records. Also covered, how soccer moms in Massachusetts are getting Asian businesses shut down under the guise of stopping human trafficking.
Published 05/08/19
Phoenix Calida returns after a very bad medical week ready to break down some stories on Sex Workers rights.
Published 05/06/19
Thank you patreon subscribers. We upload this late Thursday night for early access and it will be on the socialized feed Monday morning. This is Phoenix Calida's SWOP show and in this one, she takes a look at Scotland considering the Nordic Model. She also digs back into the Robert Kraft Story and how the sex workers are being treated in it. Also; SWOP is doing December 17th events for Sex Workers taken away from us and if you know anyone you want memorialized, please contact SWOP.
Published 04/29/19
Sorry about the audio on the original upload. Phoenix Calida revisits the New York Decrim news in this one over a cleaner recording.
Published 04/26/19