Jessica Van Meir 🩵
@jessicavanmeir.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social
This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts
This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts
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I’ve created this starter pack of sex workers’ rights & anti-trafficking activists, researchers, & journalists! Please comment anyone else I should include.
go.bsky.app/U736K8k
go.bsky.app/U736K8k
I missed my train and duo is mocking me
January 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I missed my train and duo is mocking me
how I expect all men to treat me from now on
January 17, 2026 at 9:15 PM
how I expect all men to treat me from now on
@moderation.cryptoanarchy.network could you please remove @bostonswac.bsky.social from your Lewd purveyors list? We are an advocacy organization and don’t post lewd content. Thanks!
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
@moderation.cryptoanarchy.network could you please remove @bostonswac.bsky.social from your Lewd purveyors list? We are an advocacy organization and don’t post lewd content. Thanks!
If you want to support politicians who will advocate for the full decriminalization of sex work, give my friend Evan a follow!
Evan just announced their run for Massachusetts State House and has long been an ally for marginalized workers. They would also be the second openly non-binary state rep!
Evan just announced their run for Massachusetts State House and has long been an ally for marginalized workers. They would also be the second openly non-binary state rep!
I’m excited to announce today that I am running for State Representative for the 25th Middlesex District.
We need to have a state government that works for the many, not just the well connected few.
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We need to have a state government that works for the many, not just the well connected few.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:24 PM
If you want to support politicians who will advocate for the full decriminalization of sex work, give my friend Evan a follow!
Evan just announced their run for Massachusetts State House and has long been an ally for marginalized workers. They would also be the second openly non-binary state rep!
Evan just announced their run for Massachusetts State House and has long been an ally for marginalized workers. They would also be the second openly non-binary state rep!
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Mayor Wu’s administration @mayorwu.boston.gov is trying to ban street outreach at Mass & Cass, targeting the very people who help street based sex workers and drug users stay alive.
This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.
This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Mayor Wu’s administration @mayorwu.boston.gov is trying to ban street outreach at Mass & Cass, targeting the very people who help street based sex workers and drug users stay alive.
This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.
This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.
Can anyone help? Caty is an incredible organizer with Whose Corner Is It Anyway, which provides crucial mutual aid for low income sex workers in Western Mass.
She just had her Facebook account permanently banned, devastating her ability to share info and raise funds. Please repost!
She just had her Facebook account permanently banned, devastating her ability to share info and raise funds. Please repost!
1/CALL FOR TECH HELP: My Facebook account was just suspended again for “too much activity violating…community standards.” This account is critical to our fundraising for low-income sw who use drugs and to my keeping track of movement activities.
January 8, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Can anyone help? Caty is an incredible organizer with Whose Corner Is It Anyway, which provides crucial mutual aid for low income sex workers in Western Mass.
She just had her Facebook account permanently banned, devastating her ability to share info and raise funds. Please repost!
She just had her Facebook account permanently banned, devastating her ability to share info and raise funds. Please repost!
remembering how when I was little I wanted to celebrate hanukkah after I learned about it in school, but we didn’t have a menorah, so my dad took a banana and stuck some birthday candles in it
January 2, 2026 at 5:27 AM
remembering how when I was little I wanted to celebrate hanukkah after I learned about it in school, but we didn’t have a menorah, so my dad took a banana and stuck some birthday candles in it
We just noticed that the size of our orange juice carton has shrunk while the price has gone up! Florida’s Natural what the hell??
December 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We just noticed that the size of our orange juice carton has shrunk while the price has gone up! Florida’s Natural what the hell??
Incredible, highly recommend
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Incredible, highly recommend
The government just admonished banks for discriminating against adult businesses.
This is huge!
This is huge!
Over the past few years, FSC raised alarms in Washington about debanking of our industry. Thousands of you joined us to file complaints.
Finally, a new government report has affirmed it: major banks wrongly discriminated against adult businesses.
Our work is paying off. Now, we fight for a fix.
Finally, a new government report has affirmed it: major banks wrongly discriminated against adult businesses.
Our work is paying off. Now, we fight for a fix.
OCC Releases Preliminary Findings from Its Review of Large Banks’ Debanking Activities
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released preliminary findings from its supervisory review of debanking activities at the nine largest national banks it supervises: JPMorgan C...
www.occ.gov
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The government just admonished banks for discriminating against adult businesses.
This is huge!
This is huge!
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One of our members, a neurodivergent trans woman facing multiple barriers in the workplace, is currently unhoused and looking for support to stay in a motel until she can find more stable housing. If you can help, her Cash App is $AvaB1400. She is also looking for jobs to apply to.
Thank you! 💖
Thank you! 💖
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
One of our members, a neurodivergent trans woman facing multiple barriers in the workplace, is currently unhoused and looking for support to stay in a motel until she can find more stable housing. If you can help, her Cash App is $AvaB1400. She is also looking for jobs to apply to.
Thank you! 💖
Thank you! 💖
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
tried Raya, and can confirm it’s tremendously underwhelming and a waste of money unless what you’re looking for is a man in finance, trust fund, 6’ 5”, blue eyes
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
tried Raya, and can confirm it’s tremendously underwhelming and a waste of money unless what you’re looking for is a man in finance, trust fund, 6’ 5”, blue eyes
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Nick Fuentes has been working overtime to sanitize his image and present himself as a uniter of the left and right. Very clearly using language often associated with the left.
This is part of a larger effort by the anti-Zionist antisemitic far right to recruit people on the left.
This is part of a larger effort by the anti-Zionist antisemitic far right to recruit people on the left.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Nick Fuentes has been working overtime to sanitize his image and present himself as a uniter of the left and right. Very clearly using language often associated with the left.
This is part of a larger effort by the anti-Zionist antisemitic far right to recruit people on the left.
This is part of a larger effort by the anti-Zionist antisemitic far right to recruit people on the left.
i miss when this place was just trans communists and sex workers
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
i miss when this place was just trans communists and sex workers
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Our bill to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts is being heard at the State House next Tuesday, 11/25 at 10am!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our bill to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts is being heard at the State House next Tuesday, 11/25 at 10am!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
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it's funny that one of the people on bluesky's board made a "social media head of trust and safety simulator" game years back, and the way to get a five star rating was to stand up for sex workers and tell the government to fuck off and die
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
it's funny that one of the people on bluesky's board made a "social media head of trust and safety simulator" game years back, and the way to get a five star rating was to stand up for sex workers and tell the government to fuck off and die
Supporting the Epstein survivors is important, but please don’t support World Without Exploitation. They advocate for policies that are really harmful to sex workers, like the Nordic Model, which puts sex workers at greater risk of violence and poverty by criminalizing their clients.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Supporting the Epstein survivors is important, but please don’t support World Without Exploitation. They advocate for policies that are really harmful to sex workers, like the Nordic Model, which puts sex workers at greater risk of violence and poverty by criminalizing their clients.
Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…
okay but why did Epstein and his people use email like it’s texts
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
okay but why did Epstein and his people use email like it’s texts
I’m excited to be presenting at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference this week! @theenwsa.bsky.social
I’ll be presenting, “‘It’s Not Easy:’ How Sex Workers in Ecuador and Argentina Feel About Selling Sex,” on the panel “Challenging Gender Imperialism in 2025” on Friday at 11:30.
I’ll be presenting, “‘It’s Not Easy:’ How Sex Workers in Ecuador and Argentina Feel About Selling Sex,” on the panel “Challenging Gender Imperialism in 2025” on Friday at 11:30.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I’m excited to be presenting at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference this week! @theenwsa.bsky.social
I’ll be presenting, “‘It’s Not Easy:’ How Sex Workers in Ecuador and Argentina Feel About Selling Sex,” on the panel “Challenging Gender Imperialism in 2025” on Friday at 11:30.
I’ll be presenting, “‘It’s Not Easy:’ How Sex Workers in Ecuador and Argentina Feel About Selling Sex,” on the panel “Challenging Gender Imperialism in 2025” on Friday at 11:30.
every time I teach I feel like this
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
every time I teach I feel like this
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re: No King’s Day discourse I have two main things: (1) protests work but not how people think (ie, as a way to get someone in power to “do something”); and (2) it is not at all important that the people mobilizing in protest, especially if they are new to the game, know that
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
re: No King’s Day discourse I have two main things: (1) protests work but not how people think (ie, as a way to get someone in power to “do something”); and (2) it is not at all important that the people mobilizing in protest, especially if they are new to the game, know that
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This weekend, we reached ~25 people with our street outreach at Mass & Cass, giving out feminine products, condoms & lube, water, snacks, underwear, socks, and makeup.
It was harder to find people this week, as the police have been cracking down lately and pushing people into hiding.
It was harder to find people this week, as the police have been cracking down lately and pushing people into hiding.
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This weekend, we reached ~25 people with our street outreach at Mass & Cass, giving out feminine products, condoms & lube, water, snacks, underwear, socks, and makeup.
It was harder to find people this week, as the police have been cracking down lately and pushing people into hiding.
It was harder to find people this week, as the police have been cracking down lately and pushing people into hiding.