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BACKGROUND: SEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECT LOS ANGELES (SWOP-LA) is the Southern California branch of SEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECT-USA (SWOP-USA), a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy. SWOP-LA began as SWOP-UCLA during the graduate school career of founder and director Mariko Passion on the University of California, Los Angeles campus from 2004-2006. After graduating with a degree in social justice education, Ms. Passion officially formed SWOP-LA in December of 2006 which was aimed at expanding beyond the privileged community of the University and working with the social and economically diverse population of urban Los Angeles.MISSION: The mission of SWOP-LA is to advocate sex worker rights, recognition, respect and visibility through social justice education, advocacy and outreach with a focus on women of color and LGBTQ (especially bisexual and transsexual) persons that may identify with the term “sex worker†and “queer†and those persons that do not. SWOP-LA’s focus and mission is an anti-oppression, anti-violence, HIV/STD awareness campaign that seeks to speak with those on the margins of society. Our outreach campaign would seek to include those working in the sex trade who are marginalized by the greater sex worker rights movement such as youth (14-25) street based workers, women of color, transgender workers, undocumented immigrant workers, and non English speaking workers, their clients, partners and families.