It's a new year, and we're back with a new logo! We surveyed our community of sex workers, trafficking survivors, and allies, and we partnered with the incredible queer nonbinary artist M Erazo to develop a new brand that represents who we are: This winter, we've been hard at work at Decrim NY, working with comrades in and out of the coalition to repeal the statute on loitering for the purposes of prostitution, known as the #WalkingWhileTrans ban, while also turning inward to

Decrim NY is led by sex workers and trafficking survivors from queer and trans communities of color. Police and criminalization are a major source of violence for our communities, and continuing to criminalize people for sharing resources, creating workplaces for sex workers, or being clients of sex workers doesn’t make us safer. Our communities are often excluded from the mainstream economy by employment discrimination, shut out of housing options, and criminalized while acc

Last year, there was a 188% increase in loitering arrests – the sharpest increase since 2012. A harmful law that criminalizes "loitering for the purposes of prostitution" (Penal Law 240.37) allows police to profile, harass, and arrest trans communities and Black and POC femmes for wearing a skirt, “waving at a car,” and “standing somewhere other than a bus stop or taxi stand” AKA existing in public spaces. Police targeting undocumented women and TGNC people under this statute