--- title: "Mutualaid and sex work" images: ["/topic/coronanotes/care_curve.jpg"] --- *Questo documento ha una versione in italiano: ![](session:it.sexwork.md)* # Mutualaid and sex work COVID19 pandemic is dramatically affecting the lives of sex workers. Most of the #sexworkers are unable to access the social benefits set up as emergency measures by the governments. It is indeed a moment of despair and fear: many young sex workers women and trans people are migrants, alone and without a family network to refer to; many others are mothers and with their job they support the whole family. In these weeks and more and more in the nexts, the emergency is pushing many of them to the brink of the abyss, giving rise to increasingly serious situations of hardship and poverty. And it will always be worse. There are people engaged in prostitution activities in free, agreed or forced form, already in conditions of human and social vulnerability, and today they risk falling into conditions of extreme poverty. Conditions of necessity that could force them to work, violating the rules, exposing themselves to the related criminal consequences and risks to their own health and to the collective health. For these reasons, sex work groups, associations and unions in many countries are organizing. That is how, in addition to food and medicines distribution, various initiatives have opened mutual aid and donation funds to financially support the sex workers. Workers who are among the people on whom the pandemic is most affecting, due to the generalized criminalization of the sexual work. ------- Italy: - Solidarietà immediata alle lavoratrici sessuali più colpite dall'emergenza! [Ombre Rosse](https://www.facebook.com/nessunadasola/) ![](https://i.imgur.com/eqdrUhG.jpg) "We want to break this silence and stay by the side of all the sex workers who are most vulnerable in this emergency situation. For this reason we launch a network of solidarity that can help in concrete terms and reach as many people as possible through the national anti-trafficking platform, associations and collectives that have been working for years to support the complex reality of sex work. **All the money donated will be used to financially and materially assist male and female workers in situations of extreme need.**" #neveralone #supportsexworker [DONATE!](https://www.produzionidalbasso.com/project/covid19-nessuna-da-sola-solidarieta-immediata-alle-lavoratrici-sessuali-piu-colpite-dall-emergenza/?fbclid=IwAR0h41heaRKOCntOgDjTUIGi723a16B82jIo2fpqxOMDai_4DIf9TWt7sVw) France: - Fonds d’action sociale pour les personnes trans [Acceptess Transgenres](https://www.facebook.com/acceptess.transgenres/) ![](https://i.imgur.com/MiCDzyK.png) "FAST (Action Social Fund for Trans) is a good example of the extent to which the most invisible populations and those most affected by social inequality need help. **It was not created in direct connection with the Covid-19 but it responds to problems that we have always encountered and which have increased with the current epidemic.**" - [DONATE!](https://www.acceptess-t.com/aide-sociale?fbclid=IwAR0YwKVixwKAGWzM25gQrpeZVrSrw1BaNNzWIC46n6qMem3qUsamsUmYLnc) UK: - Help Us Build A Hardship Fund For Sex Workers In Crisis! [SWARM COLLECTIVE](https://www.swarmcollective.org/blog/2020/3/14/help-us-build-a-hardship-fund-for-sex-workers-in-crisis) ![](https://i.imgur.com/5zZHpVd.jpg) "SWARM is launching a hardship fund to help the sex workers who are most in need. All donations made to SWARM from 13th March - 30th April will go directly to this fund, and will provide mutual aid to sex workers in the UK who are in severe financial hardship. We are asking for donations from allies, from organisations, and from other sex workers who feel in a position to help. **Please support the sex worker community during this uncertain time.**" - [DONATE!](https://www.swarmcollective.org/donate) Sources: - [La quarantena ha lasciato le sex worker completamente senza tutele](https://thesubmarine.it/2020/04/18/quarantena-sex-worker-senza-tutele/?fbclid=IwAR1wvCbRNVF-fN_XaG9y2_P-r2cL86b6F-H1YYz4Hay8QGX9T3RVLBJr1rY) - [I giorni difficili delle lavoratrici del sesso](https://www.internazionale.it/notizie/alice-facchini/2020/04/03/coronavirus-sesso-lavoratrici-lavoratori?fbclid=IwAR2uk3IJhlWVBe3MPjDPzPXIqXlJDzVuOqaab-9LzUcPIuSHFVS0ZEKYBDs) - [Italian campaign for the emergency fund page of “No-one left behind! COVID19-Solidarity with the sex workers most affected by the Covid19 emergency](https://tampep.eu/italian-campaign-for-the-emergency-fund-page-of-no-one-left-behind-covid19-solidarity-with-the-sex-workers-most-affected-by-the-covid19-emergency/?fbclid=IwAR0WMdTWV-0k0POxmeIT7FW4aORans0tR5L2VWhIYx6tUrRXfWh0yga2H0w) - [Face au Covid-19, les travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe en péril](https://www.frustrationmagazine.fr/face-au-covid-19-les-travailleuses-et-travailleurs-du-sexe-en-peril/?fbclid=IwAR24kr9qm1foJlkDjBu_4ckSxFw3Yb8Qp20Cy6vTkxXPdK32A_ULfi_B6Lk) - [TOUCHÉES DE PLEIN FOUET PAR LA COVID-19, LES TRAVAILLEUSES DU SEXE S’ORGANISENT](https://urbania.fr/article/touchees-de-plein-fouet-par-la-covid-19-les-travailleuses-du-sexe-sorganisent?fbclid=IwAR2Z0cctfyKkvoQdbCYo2cihUeV_-qQAM5Ln_hPErDaz9-5pUsyvEJXMdeA) - [#4AnsLoiProstitution](https://strass-syndicat.org/communiques-de-presse/4ansloiprostitution-4-ans-de-trop-notre-colere-est-intacte-notre-mobilisation-aussi/) - [COVID-19: SEX WORKERS NEED IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND PROTECTION](http://www.sexworkeurope.org/news/news-region/covid-19-sex-workers-need-immediate-financial-support-and-protection?fbclid=IwAR2mSim-INFWQu40pP29FH4IBzewR1YmWMpGv2NTmd906Ccjvy2K5cKtFbA) - [Sex work, Covid-19 and the UK lockdown](https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4638-sex-work-covid-19-and-the-uk-lockdown) - [How COVID-19 Is Driving Sex Workers Like Me Into Crisis](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-workers-covid-19-coronavirus_n_5e6f653ac5b6bd8156fbbdc5?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi51bmVzY28ub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABnpqa3Fb87Zbg_jW6fg4lAT2qy49awwjL8VBDkvVfhbzGXOVkL45mzwtwuukG7bOd4fkqCiVx4f560xnyAMwrHIXAhB5BPZD3R64dtkrXN4secX90ESWUhPKjwrhbb6_q-laGH4cLp3cpr0bCw-2buVoe8nn88ioWhOX3Qc1FJn) - [Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Violence against Women and Girls](http://www.sddirect.org.uk/media/1881/vawg-helpdesk-284-covid-19-and-vawg.pdf) - [Bangladesh: Sex workers appeal for funds amid coronavirus crisis](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/bangladesh-sex-workers-appeal-funds-coronavirus-crisis-200323174908994.html) - [Japan is offering sex workers financial aid. But they say it's not enough to survive the coronavirus pandemic](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/19/asia/japan-sex-workers-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html) - [COVID-19 responses must uphold and protect the human rights of sex workers](https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2020/april/20200424_sex-work)