Steve Korn
When I first met Savannah Sly in a Stranger conference room back in 2015, she was working to fight bills in the Washington State Legislature that aimed to increase punishments for buyers of sex. Sly, then volunteering with the Sex Workers Outreach Project-Seattle (SWOP-Seattle) and wearing cat ears, cited a slew of facts on the harms of such policies from multiple sex-work studies that she appeared to have nearly memorized.
Now that Sly is president of the SWOP-USA board, she’s pushing the organization to develop an actively anti-racist approach to its social-justice work. She’s also helping organize Seattle’s annual Sex Work Symposium, which will take place March 2–5.
