«The Red Book Online: STI and BBV resources, for sex workers, by sex workers»

🗓️ N/A (live guide)
👥 Scarlet Alliance (+ lots of contributors)
🌐 Live text: https://redbook.scarletalliance.org.au/
💬🇬🇧🇨🇳🇹🇭🇰🇷
(Available in English, Chinese, Thai and Korean)

> The Red Book Online contains health and safety information by sex workers, for sex workers. There are a lot of ways sex workers can use the Red Book Online! There are a few different ways to find the information you’re looking for: BROWSE the resource, SEARCH for what you’re looking for, or use our QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE.

> This resource is a sex worker-led project. It has incorporated the efforts of sex workers, peer educators, sex worker organisations, community organisations and health professionals across Australia. It is made by sex workers, for sex workers.

> Much of the content builds on the printed resource, The Scarlet Alliance STI Handbook: A Reference Guide for Sex Workers to Sexually Transmissible Infection (“Red Book”). Red Book was first developed in 1998 with updates in 2003 and 2009. Many sex workers may be familiar with the pocket-sized Red Book that sex worker organisations have been handing out on outreach to sex worker workplaces for many years. The book is not currently available in that format, but all of the information it contains is regularly updated here on Red Book Online.

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This week I'm bringing something a little different for the #SWBooks series (also to expand it a little, since I'm mostly adding to the Spanish one…).

The Red Book is a collection of practical information on STIs, sexual health, and sex work on Australia, designed by and for people who very much cannot afford NOT to know but who nevertheless might not have had any real chances to learn any of it (and revised by physicians, yes…).

I'll say it outright: this is an absolutely wonderful resource for just about everyone with a sex live, and whose usefulness extends weeeeell beyond its original scope (be that sex workers, or Australia).
Yes, it's mostly basic; that's what high pragmatism tends to entail.
But for real, I've seen actual medical manuals and guides over an order of magnitude worse…

There are indeed sections specific to sex work (such as the extensive list of #SWTips for online SWers) or to #Australia (those on SW orgs, the legal mess, specific services available there, etc).
However, just about anyone can — and most certainly WILL — benefit from the core of the book: overview, signs and prevention guides for a whole host of STI, accompanied by basic sexual health and care information, and a bunch of tidbits such as, among others, how to check for STIs, making a dental dam, other safer sex resources…

The whole guide does have the unspoken but still kinda loud disclaimer of “upon doubt, consult a clinician”. Yeah, you can't actually get around this. That doesn't reduce one bit its usefulness, however; specially so when sex education is just cringeworthy just about everywhere.

But, at the end of the day… #SexWorkers ARE experts on their field. 😉

#SexWork #SWResources #SexualHealth #STI #ScarletAlliance #RedBook #RedBookOnline

«Age Verification Impacts on Sex Workers»

✍️ Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZQ9KT7G
⚠️ This is meant for sex workers.

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Basic motivation on the images, that is more general.
Implementation cost is reeeally not a meaningful factor here, but nvm.

#SexWork #AgeVerification #ESWA #Survey

Today in Labor History June 18, 1923: A nationwide General Strike took place in Argentina in protest of the assassination of the anarchist Kurt Wilckens in his prison cell. Two workers were killed in the strike as police tried to raid the offices of the anarchist union FORA.

Wilckens was born in Germany. He moved to the U.S. in the 1910s, where he joined the IWW and was exposed to anarchist ideas. He worked as a copper miner in Arizona and was one of hundreds arrested and expelled from the region during the Bisbee Deportation, July 12, 1917. During the Bisbee strike, authorities sealed off the county and seized the local Western Union telegraph office to cut off outside communication, while several thousand armed vigilantes rounded up 1,186 members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The workers were herded into manure-laden boxcars and dumped in the New Mexico desert. After that, Wilckens was arrested for making antiwar statements and deported to Germany in 1920 under the Espionage Act.

However, Wilckens moved to Argentina that same year, at the height of the Libertarian Workers’ Movement. Workers in Patagonia rebelled in 1920-1922 and were violently suppressed by the military, led by Lieutenant Colonel Héctor Benigno Varela. They slaughtered 1,500 workers. While the British landowners cheered Varela with rounds of “He’s a jolly good fellow,” the local prostitutes all shouted “Assassins! Pigs! We won’t go with killers” at any soldiers who entered their brothels. Many were jailed for “insulting men in uniform.” To avenge the workers killed, Wilckens, who was a Tolstoyan pacifist, bombed and shot Varela. At his trial, Wilckensstated that he had shot Varela so that he could never kill again.

Hector Olivera’s film about these events, “La Patagonia Rebelde,” came out in 1974. “Bisbee ‘17,” (1999) by Robert Houston, is a historical novel based on the Bisbee deportations. There was also a really interesting film of the same name that came out in 2018. In the film, the town’s inhabitants reenact the events 100 years later. It also includes interviews with current residents.

You can read my full article on the Bisbee Deportation here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2026/06/01/the-bisbee-deportation/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #IWW #bisbee #deportation #argentina #massacre #prison #sexwork #generalstrike #police #kurtwilckens #germany #antiwar #espionage #books #novel #film #author #writer @bookstadon

> Just like everyone else, people who work in the sex industry want to live and work without being afraid for their safety.

> But for many sex workers, this is not the reality.

> Too often, anti-sex work groups deliberately conflate “sex work” with “human trafficking for sexual exploitation” to fuel stigma and justify harmful laws that increase surveillance, policing and criminalisation of sex workers.

> 👉🏽 Sex work is work. It is when consenting adults provide and receive sexual services in exchange for payment or another agreed form of compensation. Like any other form of work, people’s experiences of sex work are diverse and shaped by their social and economic realities.

> 👉🏽Human trafficking for sexual exploitation, on the other hand, involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the aim of sexually exploiting them for profit. These abuses can happen in any labour sector, including sex work. They must be prevented and addressed as serious human rights violations of workers, without implying that all sex work is inherently exploitative.

> Confusing sex work with human trafficking for sexual exploitation causes harm to sex workers. Anti-trafficking initiative that do not recognise sex work as distinct from sexual exploitation pushes sex workers further away from the safety and care they deserve. It makes it harder for sex workers to access healthcare, report violence, organise for safer working conditions, or seek legal protection without fear of arrest, detention, or deportation.

> When sex work is recognised as labour and harmful restrictions are removed, it leads to safer workplaces and stronger rights for everyone.

> We support the decriminalisation of sex work and condemn all forms of forced labour and human trafficking. These are human rights violations and must not be conflated with consensual sex work.

— IPPF 🗺️️
🗓️ May 20th, 2026

#WordsToWin #SexWork #IPPF

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116749781116583967

This, in short. Wish more people left the moral outrage aside for a minute and connected the dots…

Sex work IS work.

THAT's the issue.
Work is the issue.
Not the sex.

Despite what the overrighteous moralizers and the “all sex is rape” people keep insisting on.

#SexWork #Labour

> SWAN's office is temporarily closed during the FIFA World Cup due to a heavy police presence and surveillance in the downtown core, and the increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation of im/migrant sex workers.

🇨🇦👠📰 https://swanvancouver.ca/office-closed/

Sigh. When the “““safety””” measures to “““combat trafficking””” and “““protect women””” lead to organizations ACTUALLY providing safe and effective support to precarious, marginalized (and even up to actually trafficked) women HAVING TO CLOSE… 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Clearly something ain't working right.
Sure isn't for the lack of warnings however. “Maybe” it's actually working just as intended after all… 😮‍💨

Does anyone seriously believe half a word of the official pitches, anyway..? They keep getting more and more shameful by the day.

#DecrimNow, dangit!

#SexWork #Canada #Vancouver #SWAN #NordicModel #Police

Going from homeless to squatting isn't much of a step-up, as Piri finds out. So she becomes a camgirl (the only time it's ok to bang your boss).

Her semi-charmed life turns more charmed, with different problems.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/like-red-on-a-rose-rathan-krueger/2e5853ebe9e16d57
#Books #Pride #LGBTQ #Romance #SexWork