The AnnaKissed Collective is based in Brooklyn, NYC. We are a consensus-based anarchafeminist assocation that consists of:

• A safe space for pros of all sexualities to support and empower each other through consciously fighting internalized stigma. We respect sexual and economic choice, and encourage one another to express and trust in our own experiences and ideas.

• We create a network for mutual aid in health care, legal and financial services, education, housing, childcare, and access to media and capital.

• We are a trade union that promotes independent and collectively-run sexual businesses, such as cooperatively-owned dungeons and clubs, and alternative pornography. We blacklist unjust, non-transparent, and/or discriminatory businesses that exploit workers. We raise consciousness of ethical sex consumerism.

• We outreach to sex workers in various industries in New York City, providing anonymous information and support.

• We believe in the decriminalization of consensual sex whether paid or unpaid. We organize against the prosecution of victimless crimes by the NYPD Vice Squad. We demand that the city instead channel its resources towards targeting non-consensual sex to prevent the acts of rape and sexual assault that go unpunished every day.

• We organize with other sex worker organizations on a national and international level to build a greater AnnaKissed movement, which fights for gender equality, human rights, sexual choice, and alternatives to government-enforced definitions of the monogamous family. We work with human rights organizations against sex slavery and human trafficking to fight nonconsensual sex, which is antithetical to our free sexual self-empowerment.

• We provide a forum and art space for sex worker self-expression through independent publishing, venues for presenting visual and performing arts, and opportunities to expand gender and sexuality theory.

• Our collective consists of equal representation of rent-boys, LGBTQ, and alternative sexualities across different classes, races, nationalities, and geographies.


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