About Us
The Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) is a volunteer group of sex workers and allies in the Greater Boston area organizing towards sex work decriminalization and other policies which support our wellbeing in Massachusetts. We formed out of a sex worker support group that we continue to hold monthly.
In 2025-2026, we:
- Advocated for a repeal of “common nightwalking” (An Act to Repeal Archaic Laws) and another bill which aimed to support workers (S.1046 / H.1758), as well as against a “Nordic Model” bill introduced in MA.
- Held a legislative briefing at the MA State House
- Passed a resolution in support of S.1046/ H.1758 with the Somerville City Council
- Honored International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (Dec 17)
- Built coalitions with other sex worker organizing groups in New England
- Hosted a book launch for Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
- Co-hosted a film screening of Sex Work: It’s Just a Job, with Professor Alex Vitale and the Black Response
- Distributed care kits to our unhoused neighbors at Mass & Cass as part of our street outreach
- Marched in Boston’s LGBTQ+ Pride Parade and tabled at Dyke March
- Co-hosted Kaytlin Bailey’s one-woman show, Old Pros
- Participated in New Moon’s campaign to demand sex worker safety during the World Cup
- Led Boston’s first ever Sex Worker Pride March alongside coalition partner, Red Light Disco.
- Supported the striking Teamsters and Unite Here Local 26 workers of Encore’s hotel and casino.
Our 2027 priorities include:
- Raising the visibility of Massachusetts sex workers’ needs and priorities broadly.
- Connecting with other sex workers, survivors, and allies to provide support and build community.
- Educating the public about the need for policy change related to sex work in Massachusetts.
Learn more about our mission here:
“People who are profiled by cops as sex workers include, in disproportionate numbers, trans women, women of color, and queer and gender nonconforming youth. This isn’t about policing sex. It’s about profiling and policing people whose sexuality and gender are considered suspect.”
— Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
“Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others’ whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world…. In 1917, 200 prostitutes marched in San Francisco—in what has been called the ‘original Women’s March’—to demand an end to brothel closures.”
— Juno Mac & Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
“As laws move down the continuum from more to less prohibitive or restrictive on consensual sex work, workers experience less harm, and there is no strong evidence to indicate negative impacts on crime, health, or safety.”
— ACLU, Is Sex Work Decriminalization The Answer? What The Research Tells Us
Fighting for sex worker rights in Boston, Massachusetts, and beyond.