SWARM NORTH

SWARM North - A sex worker led organisation in the north of England.

The organisation exists online and in IRL non-permanent spaces.

SWARM (Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement) was founded in 2009, under the original name Sex Worker Open University. In 2018, the north of England branch (SWARM North) was created.

The organisation was founded to advocate for the rights of everyone who sells sexual services.

"Our goal is to build a diverse and inclusive community of sex workers who work together to improve our working conditions and resist violence. We define sex workers as people who sell their own sexual labour or performance, or who have done so in the past. Although we recognise that many agency managers or brothel owners can be or have been sex workers themselves, our organising collective is not open to managers, or to non-sex workers who make a profit from the work of sex workers.

We are here as sex workers who are survivors of economic violence, domestic violence, border violence, transphobic violence and sexual violence. We are part of a global movement, and we are proud to work in solidarity with each other. Many sex workers within SWARM navigate our lives across several marginalised identities. Our solidarity with each other is not just words -- it is how we stay alive." (https://www.swarmcollective.org/who-we-are)

SWARM NORTH (as of 04.07.19) have held meetups in Leeds and York, and on the 2nd June 2019, International Whore's Day, they held a sex worker only brunch in Leeds.

SWARM stand:

- For he full decriminalisation of sex work

- For workers' rights

- For migrants' rights

- For resisting gender oppression

- In solidarity with the students' movement

- In solidarity with the drug user rights movement

- In solidarity with HIV+ people (https://www.swarmcollective.org/what-we-stand-for)

Note: this page was created by a white, cisgender, queer, working class woman who sells sexual services.