Social Media Resources

Community Organizations to Follow

Hacking//Hustling

Hacking//Hustling is a collective of sex workers, anti-trafficking advocates, & accomplices working at the intersection of technology & social justice.

Press Release: Congress Advances EARN IT, Ignoring Sex Workers’ Continued Concerns

Sex Workers Warned You. You Didn’t Listen. #section230 #EARNIT #FuckEARNIT #LetUsSurvive https://t.co/jlK8VweUd8

— Hacking//Hustling (@hackinghustling) July 3, 2020

Support Ho(s)e

Building radical community for sex workers in Chicago & NYC. #SexWorkersUnite #FreeLeLe

Today is #PrisonersJusticeDay and @brokenpencilmag is doing a round-up of crucial #prisonzines! We wanted to share this talk back we did w/ @bluestockings about Alisha + our inside/outside zine making practices! https://t.co/Ayf0Ko05OX #FreeLeLe #FreeThemAll

— Support Ho(s)e (@supporthosechi) August 11, 2020

Women of Sex Tech

A community of sex-positive folks changing the sex tech industry.

Shoutout to @GrrraceSM for taking the time to share her takeaways from not just the conference but also each fabulous speaker. So much gratitude✨👾💜 https://t.co/rI7rgzD4IW

— Women of Sex Tech (@womenofsextech) May 4, 2020

People to Follow

Kate D’Adamo

The other Kate who works in sex worker rights. Not just trafficking, all of it. No, not that one. Other OTHER Kate. Organizer? With tattoos? Big hair?

While we fight #EARNIT the questions of technology, labor, and an intersectional re-envisioning of tech can’t take a back seat. Reading this article this AM from @safiyanoble, thinking about the #Data4BL conversation yesterday. https://t.co/gn0rWb0nWq pic.twitter.com/na1PqfxS8u

— Kate (@KateDAdamo) April 16, 2020

SX Noir

SX Noir (she/her) everything sx, tech,love & lust in the digital age. Host of Thot Leader Podcast, listen now! VP of @womenofsextech

📍 TODAY we are fighting to #SurviveEARNIT by launching a page to learn more about how the EARN IT Act (S.3398) harms
-sexworkers
-survivors of violence
-marginalized communities

Do you value your privacy in digital space?

Check out more at https://t.co/ZsjIWAJGIf! pic.twitter.com/gADBJFsclE

— BlackSexWorkerLiberation.com (@sxnoir) August 17, 2020

Alison Falk

digital pest control service | cybersexurity | infosec | @womenofsextech | @witpgh

only 2 days left to register for the free @womenofsextech virtual conference! Registration will close on 5/1 at 10pm EST. So be sure to sign up to learn from the experts on digital abuse, the future of sextech, sex work, reproduction, EARN IT Act + more! https://t.co/soR06M3hQd pic.twitter.com/bhz8WQs6xA

— CATPHISH (@alisonfalkpgh) April 30, 2020

Mistress Blunt

Danielle Blunt (she/her) is a femdom dominatrix and one of the co-founders of Hacking//Hustling.

Want to learn more about #EARNIT and similar legislation? Tired of conversations about #section230 not being accessible to folks without legal degrees, and not talking about impacted communities?

Sign up for this webinar on 7/7 @ 7https://t.co/tr152g4rEM https://t.co/NibivLoOhq

— Mistress Blunt (@MistressBlunt) July 3, 2020

@Whoreganizer

they/them. analyzing u.s. sex worker movements, resistance, mobilization w/ @hackinghustling. phd research: #LetUsSurvive #SurvivorsAgainstSESTA #FuckEARNIT

Follow @hackinghustling to stay updated on EARN IT and other sex worker-led efforts to fight, understand, and resist increasing surveillance.

Learn more about why we’re saying #FuckEARNIT here:https://t.co/cdSW1AQLT7

— whoreganizer (@whoreganizer) June 25, 2020

Cecelia Gentili

Still in awe of the powerful conversation we had about the past, present, & future of mutual aid for TGNC communities.

A very special TY to @ceyenne3 /@tourmaliiine / @BlackTransMedia / Rio Sofia / Milo Primeaux / Kelly Valasquez Lord.

Peek at some of the legacy-building (1/2) pic.twitter.com/RmWn2gUcRz

— Cecilia Gentili (@CeciliaGentili) August 5, 2020

ceyenne doroshow

book author life advocate transgender advocate actress activist parent mentor child of birth mother velta life mom flawless Sabrina aka jack Doroshow

The bill is on the floor Monday let’s raise awareness please throughout this weekend pic.twitter.com/0QGNiqOdHZ

— ceyenne doroshow (@ceyenne3) July 18, 2020

Melissa Gira Grant

Staff writer @newrepublic covering justice / Author, Playing The Whore: The Work of Sex Work

It took two years for the Department of Justice to actually use SESTA/FOSTA, a law Congress said was urgently needed to fight sex trafficking. And as predicted, it was used to remove sex workers’ online ads. Here’s what just happened: https://t.co/TFJ4o8DzGp

— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) June 25, 2020

Joy Buolamwini

Founder Algorithmic Justice League @AJLUnited | TED Featured Talk – Warrior Artist, Computer Scientist

Robert Williams wrongly arrested in front of family due to a false facial recognition match; 30hrs detained. As a black man accosted by police the outcome could have been fatal & still the consequences of face misidentification are indelible& irreversible https://t.co/BHH2XPLBjh

— Joy Buolamwini (@jovialjoy) June 24, 2020

Kendra Albert

Tech lawyer at @cyberlawclinic @Harvard_Law Feminism, crit. legal studies, freedom of expression, good trouble, computer security law. They/them.

It has been a very very long journey, but “FOSTA in Legal Context,” an 87 page (!?!) legal guide to FOSTA produced by the @cyberlawclinic and the @CornellLaw Gender Justice Clinic for @hackinghustling is finally on SSRN!!!! https://t.co/u3PenOQTqg

— Kendra Albert (@KendraSerra) July 30, 2020

Lorelei Lee

writer, porn performer, etc., steerco @redcanarysong, research @hackinghustling, they/she

A short thing I want to say to sex workers and survivors about EARN IT is that we still have a lot of fight to fight. We are nowhere near the end on this bill. The time is now to support each other as a community with a diversity of lived experiences

— Lorelei Lee (@MissLoreleiLee) July 3, 2020

Riana Pfefferkorn

Riana Pfeferkorn (she/her) Associate Director of Surveillance & Cybersecurity, @StanfordCIS

I’m on the latest @threatpost podcast talking about #EARNITAct and #LAEDAct: https://t.co/2UqVF2jBJK

— Riana Pfefferkorn (@Riana_Crypto) July 27, 2020

Institutions to Follow

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We defend your civil liberties in a digital world.

The EARN IT Act poses a serious threat to free speech. By undermining encryption, it would endanger the all-important secure and private communications we use every day. https://t.co/9K4BTdFKRb

— EFF (@EFF) June 2, 2020

Center for Democracy & Technology

The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping tech policy & architecture, with a focus on the rights of the individual. @CDTEU for our EU-based team.

“The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (@LVMPD) used ‘non-suitable’ probe images in almost half of all the #facialrecognition searches it made last year, greatly increasing the chances the system would falsely identify suspects:”https://t.co/VD9n3AsemR

— Center for Democracy & Technology (@CenDemTech) August 10, 2020

Fight for the Future

Digital rights are human rights. There’s hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its core.

❤️Fight delivered 590,000+ petition signatures against the #EARNITAct to @SenWyden. We have to stop this bill from killing encryption and online free speech. https://t.co/wWBbMjjaDl

— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) August 12, 2020

Georgetown Center on Privacy & Technology

Founding Director: @alvarombedoyaAssociate Director: @lauramoy

In this new podcast from @KateKayeReports, policy associate @spivackjameson discusses police use of face recognition on protesters, with a focus on Portland. Listen here: https://t.co/2g3T5UDEea

— Georgetown Privacy (@GeorgetownCPT) August 4, 2020