I have supported myself as an erotic professional for my entire adult life.
I have met, spoken, and worked with hundreds of sex workers.
I never aspired to be an advocate, it just feels necessary.
WRITING
Managing Personal Risk as a Sex Worker Advocate
XBiz Magazine, 2024
No Housing for the Unchaste
VT Digger, 2024
An Education Based Approach to Curbing CSAM Production
w. Tarah Wheeler
Brookings, 2022
Sex Workers Got No Pardons. Decriminalization is Overdue
w. Lt. Diane Goldstein
Filter Magazine, 2022
Good Work (If You Can Get It)
Spokes Hub, 2022
Washingtonians Struggle to Acknowledge Sex Worker Agency & Labor Issues
w. Lisa Taylor Lopez
South Seattle Emerald, 2021
Less Money, More Problems: The Cruelty of the “End Demand” Model of Policing
originally published via SWOP-Behind Bars, 2021
Stormy Daniel’s Story Shows How Sex & Power Relate
Teen Vogue, 2018
EXPERIENCE
New Moon Network 2021 to Present – Founder & Co-Director
Sex Work Donor Collaborative, 2022 to Present – Global Steering Committee
Woodhull Freedom Foundation, 2022 to Present – Board of Directors
Third Wave Fund – Sex Worker Giving Circle, 2023 – Fellowship Advisor
Global Lab for Research in Action UCLA Luskin, 2022 – Advisory Board
Old Pros Inc, 2020-2022 – Coordinator, #OldProProject
ACLU-WA, 2019-2021 – Coalition Organizer, Tech Equity Coalition
SWOP-USA, 2015-2017 – Board President
SWOP-Seattle, 2012-2020 – Organizer
APPEARANCES
PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
Cyber Security Office Hours with Savannah Sly – Red Queen Dynamics, 2024
Balancing Act: Censorship, Advocacy & Adult Entertainment, XBiz 2024
Canaries in the Digital Coal Mine, 2021 – Women in AIEthics
Partners in Crime, 2019 Woodhull Freedom Summit
INTERVIEWS
Ten Years of Gender Justice – A Conversations with Savannah Sly, 2022 Gender Justice League
‘Doubling Our Rates for Creampie Scenes’: Sex Workers on Life After Roe, 2022 VICE
A Sex Worker Argues for Decriminalizing Prostitution, 2021 – Psychology Today
Battle Tactics for your Sexist Workplace, 2019 – KUOW
Person of Interest, Savannah Sly, 2017 – The Stranger
The Everyday Faces of Sex Workers, 2016 – New York Times Magazine
ADVOCACY BIO
Savannah Sly is the Founder and Co-Director of New Moon Network, an organization dedicated to advancing the rights and welfare of people in the sex trade through capacity building and philanthropy. Sly serves on the steering committee of the Sex Worker Donor Collaborative and the board of Woodhull Freedom Foundation. Sly has lived experience as a criminalized sex worker in the United States and collaborates with sex worker led organizations and funders around the world to advance the agency and well being of people in the sex trade whether they are there by choice, circumstance or coercion.