COYOTE RI DECEMBER 2024 NEWSLETTER
HAPPY DECEMBER, COYOTE SUPPORTERS
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COYOTE NEWS
Tara Burns is leaving COYOTE to pursue other opportunities. We are grateful to Tara for her contribution in compiling 10 years of COYOTE’s archived research data into our book “Sex Work Policy. We wish her good luck in the next chapter of her life. People can follow Tara on her Substack.
(Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women- Coyote RI Survey Collection.)
COYOTE is now accepting applications for summer internships. Please title your email “Summer Intern” and email your resume to <bella@coyoteri.org>
Please welcome Lindsay Hoffman, who has joined COYOTEs board. She is our “Check-in Culture Coordinator”
Don't forget to register for COYOTEs.
“International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers” virtual event - Dec 17th- 7 to 9 PM EST. REGISTER @ https://tinyurl.com/4w7r33a2
Thank you, HF, for all the outreach items you donated to the COYOTE CLOSET
SEX WORK & FIRST AMENDMENT NEWS
How the Feds Destroyed Backpage.com and Its Founders Link
Arizonans Approve Life in Prison for Sex Trafficking a Minor Link
Apple Makes It More Difficult for Crooks and Cops To Look at Your Phone Link
Lies, Panic, And Politics: The Targeted Takedown Of Backpage Link
THE POLICING OF SEX WORKERS with COYOTE RI Research Link
CAMPAIGNS
Asian Spa Workers Should Be Able to Report Violence Without Arrest - Please sign the Petition- Next steps Link Please sign the petition in support of the RI
H7307 & in Oppos of H7165 & S2441 Link and check out our Immunity Tool Kit @ http://bit.ly/3BH5QPC ‘
More Campaigns @ Link
RESEARCH
COYOTE is collecting stories to support a bill for immunity for sex workers and sex trafficking survivors reporting violent crimes to police. Surveys are a way that we can bring the voices of criminalized people who would rather remain anonymous to lawmakers. Please participate in this short, 8-question survey. Link
“Sex Work Policy: Participatory Action Research By and For Sex Workers and Sex Trafficking Survivors” Available on Amazon Link
Summary of 2022/2023 Anchorage Police Department Prostitution Records Request Link
COYOTES Immunity Tool Kit Link
“Prostitution and Prostitution Related Charges in Rhode Island 2000 - Present” link
COYOTE’s “Four Years of FOSTA Survey Report” link
“Policing Modern Day Slavery: Carceral Care in Rhode Island” [link].
ESPLERPS 2023 Report "Californians for Privacy: How the War on Sex Work Is Stripping Your Privacy Rights." Link
The Double-Edged Sword of Health and Safety: COVID-19 and the Policing and Exclusion of Migrant Asian Massage Workers in North America Link
Editorial: Gains and Challenges in the Global Movement for Sex Workers’ Rights Link
Shadow Report Committee on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Optional Protocols July 12th Meeting with the United States State Department. Link
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COYOTE’s PROGRAM SERVICES
The COYOTE CLOSET provides clothing, hygiene items, and harm reduction supplies for over 200 street-based workers, and poor/houseless people every month. Our closet is almost bare. We need body wash, razors, and small swag bags, Please consider purchasing an item from our Amazon wishlist. Please consider cleaning out your closets and donating your old clothes. (Contact Bella at 401-525-8757 to schedule drop off/ pick up for clothing donations) Thank you. Debra Harris is the Outreach & Event Coordinator of the COYOTE CLOSET
COYOTEs “Health and Safety Education Specialist, Lindsey Berry facilitates our re-entry empowerment program for the women at the RI ACI every week. COYOTE RI is now providing case management to assist the women in getting copies of their birth certificates and social security cards, which are required to obtain their state ID. Without a state ID, they can not get a job or apply for SNAP, Medicaid, and other public services. We are also providing the women released from the RI ACI with a Savers Gift Card for clothing and a Stop & Shop gift card for food and household items. We are also assisting many of them in accessing sober houses & safe housing. #creatingcommunity
“Healing Hustlers” is an online weekly support group for sex workers and survivors.
Sister 2 Sister, is a weekly online support group for Formerly Incarcerated Women to find resources & community by COYOTE RI & Once Incarcerated Anonymous. Thank you LaResse Harvey for facilitating this support group.
COYOTE’s Sex Worker Story Telling Podcast
Episode 44: Meet Annie Temple, Author of “How Sex Work Shaped My Life” Link
Sex workers & Survivors that would like to be interviewed please email, <communications@coyoteri.org>
COYOTE’s RESOURCE LIST
LOCAL RESOURCE LIST LINK
Sex Workers & LGBT RESOURCES LINK
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
‘Ongoing Clade II Mpox Global Outbreak Link
What causes long COVID? For nearly half of cases, new research suggests an answer. Link
US FDA approves Emergent's smallpox vaccine for people at high risk of mpox Link
PUBLIC HEALTH NEWS (updated monthly) Link
GOOD READS
COYOTE RI’s book Sex Work Policy: Participatory Action Research By and For Sex Workers and Sex Trafficking Survivors” is available on Amazon Link
Here is a short podcast summary of our book. If you enjoyed our book, please add a review on Amazon. Thank you
Meg Weeks is the translator of Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore by Brazilian sex worker and activist Gabriela Leite. On Wednesday, she attended a book signing at Riffraff Bookstore + Bar with her book contributors Laura Rebecca Murray and Esther Teixeira and Rhode Island’s own Bella Robinson, founder and executive director of COYOTE RI, a sex worker rights and advocacy group. Link Renato Martins has translated this piece into Portuguese. If you read Portuguese, find it here: Livro de Gabriela Leite ganha edição em inglês]
