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ARTICLE: I am an online sex worker and an archiver, researcher and coordinator, sharing insight into SWAD and its members to encourage other sex workers to get involved.

COMIC: Mijntje is a comic series by one of our favourite allies, comic artist Margreet de Heer. Mijntje features a sex working character, Zina, who has just had a terrible day.

CALL OUT: We are excited to announce our Multi-Media Intensive Training: Sex Workers Make the News. A unique 3-day experience where (ex) sex workers come together to learn, share and create impactful media.

MUST SEE: Most media is not exactly on our side. Still, over the years quite a few must-sees for sex workers have been created. Must-sees because of their exceptional, touching, authentic or beautiful qualities. In: You’ve got to see this! sex workers review film, television, radio, and music about sex work. Noor Wildeling watched and listened to Stromae’s Fils de Joie.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographer Vera Rodriguez captured “Sex Workers Who Changed History Fashion Show”. This historical fashion show tells the heroic stories of famous sex workers.

Two years ago, writer and window worker El reported on the fight to keep workspaces open in Amsterdam’s De Wallen. During a pause from active protest, El writes an update from the eye of the storm.

We are excited to announce our first ever media partnership. Together with Proximate, a new American nonprofit media platform, we’ll publish a newsletter.

CALL OUT: This spring, Red Insight is offering a two day zine workshop on the theme of sex work and family.

SPEECH: Red Insight shares Chandler’s words to honour our sex worker siblings, and the many lives lost in Palestine and around the world due to colonial violence.

ARTICLE: Ireland has just hosted its first ever sex worker film festival. Red Insight visited to take in the culture, celebrations and challenges of our Irish colleagues.

COMICS: Strippers in Space is a mini comics series by Comics Slut, the alter ego of our art director Cat Astrophe.

ARTICLE: It’s political party time, and there’s only 3 days left until it’s time to vote. Only three candidates are outspoken sex workers, including Red Insight’s own managing editor Yvette Luhrs, who is running for Parliament with radical equality party BIJ1.