We believe in a harm reduction-based understanding of support and community care.
We use harm reduction as a guiding principle for all our work through advocating for the human rights of sex workers and meeting people where they are without judgment or punishment. We strive to strengthen the network of sex worker support and sex worker-driven advocacy in Rhode Island.
We are an anti-racist, anti-transphobic, anti-xenophobic, and anti-ableist organization.
We strive to always be better and to learn from current & past liberation movements. We welcome the diversity of identities and lived experiences that fall within the realm of sex work and recognize that widespread racism, transphobia, xenophobia, and ableism contribute to the challenges many sex workers face.
We know the criminalization of both sex work and drug use disproportionately exposes our community to violence at the hands of the state.
The fight for the decriminalization of the sex and drug trades is a project of prison abolition. Our communities deserve the right to live and care for one another without fear of the police, ICE, or any other state agencies. For decades the American “War on Drugs” has devastated primarily Black & brown communities through policing, mass incarceration, and an emphasis on carceral justice. For this reason, we support and advocate for harm reduction interventions for people who use drugs, including but not limited to sex workers. We support overdose prevention centers, drug decriminalization, sex work decriminalization and the inclusion and centering of BIPOC in this movement.
We strive to make tangible change to the conditions we labor, live, and care for one another under.
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