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Hacking//Hustling\xa0(Fair Use)\xa0Ana Valens\n\nAna Valens\u2014\xa02020-01-26 06:00 am\n\nTwo years after\xa0SESTA-FOSTA\xa0became law, a sex worker-led research initiative has confirmed that the \u201canti-sex trafficking\u201d law actually renders sex workers \u201cmore vulnerable to human trafficking and exploitation.\u201d The study, released this week, is one of the first to confirm SESTA-FOSTA\u2019s harm through direct correspondence with those affected.\n\nErased: The Impact of FOSTA-SESTA\xa0is a 53-page study penned by sex workers\u2019 rights tech collective\xa0Hacking//Hustling. The study features two survey groups, online sex workers and street sex workers who have limited technological access, and features self-reported data via a participatory action research model. Cowriters\xa0Danielle Blunt\xa0and Ariel Wolf authored the study with help from Naomi Lauren of the Western Massachusetts-based survival and street-sex worker advocacy group\xa0Whose Corner Is It Anyway.\n\n\n\n\nErased\xa0is steered by sex workers and organizers in its entirety. Blunt works as a professional dominatrix and has a master\u2019s degree in public health, Wolf is a researcher and former sex worker who previously worked with the\xa0Red Umbrella Project, and Lauren is both an organizer and stripper. The project began while Blunt was working on her master\u2019s, she told the Daily Dot. Simultaneously doing sex work in the post-SESTA-FOSTA world and studying how it impacted her community \u201creally lit a fire under [her] ass\u201d and emphasized why she needed to publish the study\u2019s findings \u201cas quickly and safely as possible,\u201d Blunt said.