Silencing Sex Workers: What Happens When Sex Workers are Deplatformed?
Woodhull Freedom Foundation
7 Jan 2025
Results of a research project sponsored by the Woodhull Freedom Foundation investigating the effects of deplatforming on sex workers.
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NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Melissa Ditmore
New York Public Library
23 Aug 2024
An interview with Melissa Ditmore, part of a series of interviews chronicling the experiences of researchers who use The New York Public Library's collections for the development of their work.
A multiple methods approach in user-centered design for designing and evaluating a prototype of a trilingual data collection tool to submit information about incidents of violence against sex workers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
JMIR Preprints. 08/08/2024:65210 (preprint)
8 Aug 2024
A description of a multiple methods approach in user-centered design for design and evaluation of a prototype data collection tool for collecting information about incidents of violence against sex workers in the Middle East and North Africa.
440 Sex Workers Cannot Be Wrong: Engaging and Negotiating Online Platform Power
Social Sciences 13, no. 7: 337
25 Jun 2024
An analysis of the use of online platforms by sex workers, examining how workers respond to and resist platforms’ policies through various pre-emptive and pro-active actions.
A multiple methods approach in user-centered design for designing and evaluating a prototype of a data collection tool to submit information about incidents of violence against sex workers
JMIR Human Factors. 19/05/2024:53557 (forthcoming)
19 May 2024
A description of a multiple methods approach in user-centered design for design and evaluation of a prototype data collection tool for collecting information about incidents of violence against sex workers.
Anti-Trafficking Bill Would Create More Problems Than It Would Solve
Rewire.News
13 Mar 2018
Chilling effects of the SESTA bill on free speech will hit already vulnerable populations especially hard.
Putin May Brag About Russian Sex Workers, but He’s Killing Them
The Daily Beast
24 Jan 2017
Russia not only fights against the best means to combat AIDS/HIV at home, it tries to impose its views abroad. Will Trump follow Putin’s lead on this, too?
Data in development, human rights and HIV/AIDS
Visualizing Advocacy
26 Oct 2015
The indicator measurements used in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are essential yardsticks for determining progress towards goals related to HIV, human rights, and other key issues. But data gathering raises the risk of dataveillance...
Thirty years after 1984: who's looking at you?
GenderIT
12 Aug 2014
The rise of the surveillance society has implications for women and for anyone who doesn't conform to cultural norms.
Good women, girls and HIV - morality over health at the Commission on the Status of Women
GenderIT
3 Apr 2014
The Commission on the Status of Women meets at the United Nations in March every year. This year, the Commission negotiated a resolution on HIV – but some of the people most at risk, including sex workers and people who use drugs – were left out of...