SWOP Behind Bars Advocacy from the Margins

Welcome to SWOP Behind Bars Stories, the official podcast of SWOP Behind Bars—a national organization supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated sex workers and trafficking survivors.Hosted by activists, advocates, and survivors, this podcast brings you powerful, unfiltered stories from behind the razor wire: tales of survival, resistance, resilience, and the fight for dignity in a system designed to disappear us.Each episode lifts the voices of those most impacted by criminalization and incarceration—sex workers, queer folks, people of color, and others navigating cages, courts, and carceral ”care.” We share real-life experiences, expose the myths behind “rescue,” and highlight the radical work being done to build safety, justice, and freedom from the inside out.Whether you’re an ally, an advocate, or someone who knows these stories all too well—we’re glad you’re here.Subscribe, listen, and share. These are the stories they tried to silence.

SWOP Behind Bars Advocacy from the Margins is a education podcast hosted by Swopbehindbars, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Swopbehindbars hosts SWOP Behind Bars Advocacy from the Margins, a education show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #191

  When “I Don’t Believe in Carceral Feminism” Still Means Criminalization.

  Aug 28, 202613 minS2026

  This story really began in 2018, at the Florida NOW Conference, when I supported what I believed was a modest resolution. It did not ask Florida NOW to endorse full decriminalization of adult consensual sex work. It did not ask the organization to adopt the sex worker rights movement’s entire policy platform. It asked something much simpler: that Florida NOW not support legislation affecting sex workers when sex workers themselves opposed that legislation. That was it. It was essentially a request that a feminist organization not advocate for laws governing a marginalized population over the objections of the people who would actually have to live under those laws.

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  Episode #190

  The ”Gentleman's” Game - Golf Takes a Swing At Women

  Aug 25, 20267 minS12026

  Here is the ad, told as plainly as possible. A woman reaches for a golf club. A man charges her, knocks her to the ground, stands over her body, and says: "Don't touch my driver." That was the pitch. That was the thing a room full of people looked at, workshopped, approved, and pushed live to sell a piece of graphite. Golf calls itself the gentleman's game. This weekend it showed its work.

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  Episode #189

  Jeffrey Epstein Is Not Your Nordic Model Success Story

  Aug 14, 20269 min

  Jeffrey Epstein has become shorthand for sex trafficking—and, predictably, ammunition for advocates who argue that criminalizing the purchase of sex is the answer to exploitation. But Epstein wasn’t buying consensual adult sex work. He was accused of exploiting children, conduct that was already profoundly illegal. Police had laws. Prosecutors had evidence. Victims spoke. The system had enormous power—and still failed to stop him. In this episode of The Pink Patriarchy Files, SWOP Behind Bars asks what the Epstein case actually tells us about trafficking, institutional power, and the Nordic Model. We examine what happens when feminism collapses consensual sex work, trafficking, and sexual violence into one category—and why more criminalization isn't necessarily the same thing as more protection. Timed for the Florida NOW State Conference and its theme, “Feminists Fight Fascism,” we leave feminists with a harder question: Can we really challenge patriarchal state power while demanding more police, surveillance, and criminalization of the women we claim to protect? Protect children. Prosecute traffickers and predators. Believe survivors. Listen to sex workers. The patriarchy has spent centuries telling women that someone else knows what is best for them. Feminism should know better.

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  Episode #188

  Samuel Little Is Not Your End Demand Success Story

  Aug 7, 20268 minS2026

  America has produced an alarming number of serial killers who discovered the same thing: if you wanted to murder women repeatedly, sex workers were among the least protected victims you could choose. But when Gary Ridgway, Samuel Little, Joel Rifkin, Robert Pickton, Anthony Sowell, Rex Heuermann, and others all independently arrive at the same conclusion - that women involved in the sex trade are easier to hunt because their disappearances generate less urgency - we should stop treating these cases as isolated tragedies. The disturbing question isn't why so many serial killers targeted sex workers. The disturbing question is why so many of them independently reached the same conclusion - and were right.

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  Episode #187

  Robert Pickton and the Women Vancouver Failed

  Jul 31, 20268 minS2026

  There is a photograph that appears almost every time Robert Pickton's name is mentioned. It is not a photograph of the women he murdered.

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