This page intends to provide a guide to the potential resources accessible for sex-workers during the crisis of the COVID-19. It includes potential financial support, good-practice resources and right-based tools.
Berlin Collective Action: Nightlife Emergency Fund.This fund exists to provide emergency financial aid to at-risk nightlife workers in Berlin — those whose livelihoods have been severely impacted by COVID-19, and especially those who do not have access to other support systems.
No Justice No Pride (NJNP) is seeking support through Patreon for trans* sex workers in Washington D.C
An Indiana group, Project Pink Bloc, is making $100 micro grants for precarious workers.
Another Toronto fundhas closed for donations and is now working on distributing, but has offered to assist others in setting up similar campaigns.For sex workers in Canada who are also freelance artists, writers, and journalists, there is a list of Canadian resources.
One fund is focused entirely on sex workers who are seeking funds to support their families, theVulnerable Families Fund.
York University is providing funds for HRDs teaming up with artists for small projects on the Covid-19 emergency and its implications for human rights defenders, activism and shrinking civic and political spaces. I’d love to see sex work rights defenders receive some of these funds.