Community

Cora is passionate about activism and the rights and well being of people working in the Adult Industry and is engaged in providing community resources and doing advocacy work on both local and national levels

Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective and Fund

Nov 2016-Present

Co-Founder, Treasurer, Social Media/Admin

This cooperative was founded in the wake of Trump’s election and raids on Backpage.com to find direct ways to support the survival of marginalized people working in the sex industry. We have now been operating for 4 years and through several large scale crisis including the shutdown of Backpage, the loss of ad platforms during SESTA/FOSTA and as we face the worldwide havoc caused to the sex worker community by Covid-19 we are still providing funds nationally and have provided frameworks for several similar local funds both across the US and internationally. While mutual aid funds have a longstanding history among communities of marginalized sex workers, (especially in India, Africa and among QTPOC communities) we are widely regarded to be one of the longest standing. most consistently operating, and sustainable public facing funds of this type to operate in the US. Through the pandemic, we not only continued to operate our fund without interruption but we are now answering emails 7 days a week, have DOUBLED our output of funds and the number of sex workers we’re in contact with around the country, have brought our total of funds dispersed for stipends to marginalized $W organizers and emergency cash gifts from 2017-2020 to $197,000, and are preparing to welcome 200 new members into our cooperative going into 2021.

Rocky Mountain Sex Worker Coalition

June 2018-Present

Co-founder

A Colorado based coalition of local sex worker advocacy groups working in solidarity to provide peer support and collective resource sharing.

Sex Worker Spa Nights/Circle of Femmes

Sept 2014-July 2017

Co-Facilitator/Host

Free and donation based events focused on mental health and body wellness featuring judgement free discussion, pole and yoga classes, meditation and harm reduction trainings