Frequently asked questions

We designed for readers who can't always afford to be seen here. A Quick exit button sits in the navigation bar on every screen (pressing Esc three times does the same thing): it immediately replaces Sesha with a neutral weather site. Reading requires no account, no name, and no payment details.

Your browser still keeps its own history on your device. If someone else can see your device, use your browser's private/incognito mode — that keeps Sesha out of local history entirely.

We never sell your data, and we run no advertising trackers. What we collect is used to run the features you ask for — following a story means we store that follow; asking for an email digest means we store your address and preferences — and to understand, in aggregate, how the map is read so we can improve it.

You can read the site signed out, and nothing you read is ever published or shared as yours.

Paid subscriptions aren't live yet — and when they launch, our commitment is this: charges will carry a discreet company descriptor, never a name that references sex work. What your bank sees will look like any ordinary software subscription.

No. Creating a free account starts a 7-day free week of selected paid features — no payment details, no authorization hold, nothing to cancel. When the week ends, your account simply returns to the free plan and everything you saved stays yours. If you want to keep the paid features, that's a choice you make then, not a card we already have.

Reading the map is free and stays free: the live news feed and story clusters, the missing-persons registry, the homicide memorial, the global directory of support organizations, article-quality scores from our Reporting Lens, and the last month of coverage. Sharing stories and map views is free too.

Contribution and memory: submit story links, flag or correct pins, send feedback and org corrections, and keep saved searches on your profile — plus the 7-day free week of paid features when you join. Accounts exist so contributions are accountable, not to wall off reading.

Time and intelligence. Paid tiers unlock the deeper archive (beyond the free month), following with email digests and alerts, the movement jobs board, and AI features like story synthesis — one clear briefing distilled from every report on a story. The current ladder is on the Plans page inside the app; prices are listed in USD.

Sex worker organizations: ask us about the Community licence — org access is priced separately, in conversation, not by the ladder.

Automated monitoring of news coverage worldwide, in dozens of languages, refreshed continuously. Reports about the same event are clustered into one story so you see the event once, with every outlet's coverage attached. Non-English coverage is translated for display; the original is always linked.

An article-quality reading on the journalism itself: how a piece frames people in the industry, its sourcing, whether workers' own voices appear, privacy practices, and sensationalism. It scores the reporting, never the people in it — and it's free, because knowing how you're being covered shouldn't cost anything.

The missing-persons and homicide layers are registries of people, built from news coverage and community sources, kept with care: names and cases are researched, duplicate records are merged rather than inflating counts, and memorial pages never feature perpetrators — these layers exist to remember people, not the men who harmed them.

Every pin and story carries a flag control (sign in, then use the flag icon), and every organization page has an “Add what you know” link. Flags and corrections go straight to our review queue and are read by the team — including requests to correct or remove a record about you or someone you represent.

With honesty and protection. Locations are shown at the city level only — never street addresses. Donation links go directly to an organization's own donation page, never through us. Descriptions are grounded in what organizations say about themselves, and when we only have directory-level information, the page says so instead of pretending.

Organizations that have closed stay in the directory as part of the movement's history, clearly marked as no longer active, with their own closing words where they left them.

Open any organization page and use “Add what you know” — or flag your own listing. Corrections go to the team for review; we don't contact your organization on your behalf, and we're glad to fix, update, or discuss a listing with you directly.