We are sex workers dedicated towards fighting for the fundamental human rights of all sex workers and our communities. While our pre-Covid, in-person support groups once only served the local population of LA sex workers, in 2020 we expanded our service virtually to serve sex workers across the US. Part of our mission is to fight anti-sex worker stigma, which is inevitably tied towards gender oppression. Our fight is concurrent with many social justice movements intersectional to our own, including but not limited to Black Lives Matter, disability rights, drug and immigration reform, gender equality and the LGBTQ movement, and the rights of the working class.

SWOPLA sustains a wide variety of ongoing projects to support and advocate for sex workers in the city of Los Angeles, the state of California, and beyond. While some of our projects have immediate impacts on the health and mental health of our community members, others are oriented towards longer term political or systemic change. Our current ongoing activities can be categorized into three main strategies: 1) Direct Services and Mutual Aid, 2) Community Building and Representation, and 3) Research, Education, and Political Action.