COVID RELIEF

If you're wanting to stop any form of sex work because you're afraid of HIV/AIDS, then we have sponsors who have offered to give salaries, which are grants so you don't have to pay them back, of $1000 a week, sometimes more, to do outreach into the community to get more COVID information, education, testing, etc., back into the community. You do not have to make any promise to "quit". An alcoholic can't "promise to quit" as sobriety is "just for today". So if you have a desire to stop sex work now, for Covid or whatever your reasons are, then we can arrange to get you a salary/sponsorship that will pay you a starting point of $1000 a week to do outreach back into the community. This is how we got many out of sex work during the HIV/AIDS crisis - we know you don't have a big savings account or retirement plan, so you need to make money, and make money now. One time grants for $200 which some sex worker groups are offering, aren't going to cut it. Nor are we going to make you "prove" you were a sex worker, which in the USA is insane and a violation of your 5th amendment constitutional right to not incriminate yourself. So we do not make these grants dependent upon you handing over basically a "confession" of illegal activity, which the prosecutor can then take up to two years to issue a warrant out for your arrest, to obtain this grant. All you need to do is show us your willingness to do outreach to other sex workers, and get them Covid education and testing, and we can get you started on this grant. If at that time, you choose to get help from the vocational rehabilitation office, where they give you job training, scholarships, etc., we can get you also assistance for job training so you don't have to go back to sex work if you don't want to. We take no position either way. It's your choice if you want to do sex work or not. We are just here to help you if you choose to exit with support and resources. We say this because it's very common for your "friends" to suddenly abandon you the second you even talk about quitting. It's like the alcoholic who starts to get sober, and then his friends feel like "you're no fun" and suddenly they're without friends. We are here for you as a person, and your choices are up to you. No judgments here. But if you want to do something else during this pandemic, we can get you these grants. Your outreach work can be done many ways. One way is to hold a workshop for local sex workers, or those on your social media, teaching them about Covid safety, prevention, and also to support them getting tested. Another way is doing workshops in your local area to bring in not only doctors who are favorable to help sex workers to teach them safer ways to not catch anything, but also to get them tested in a safe environment. These workshops can also introduce sex workers to local therapists who are supportive of sex workers, self-defense teachers, criminal and/or family law attorneys willing to do pro bono work, and basically just introduce the sex worker to local resources they may find useful that are non-judgmental towards sex workers.