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Sex worker feminism
Anti-sex work feminists endanger the lives of sex workers and prop up the far right. To fight fascism, the left must adopt a sex worker feminist politic.
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Fighting fascism in feminism
Five trans feminists on the rise of fascist feminism and how to fight back.
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A reading list on resisting dehumanization
In this reading list, Black women, queer and trans people, people who use drugs, sex workers, and migrants share their stories of marginalization and their fight to be recognized as valuable community members.
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Anatomy of an anti-trafficking policy campaign
In Newmarket, Asian massage workers have been engaged in a battle with the town council, which is intent on shutting down their businesses by claiming that the workers are both disreputable criminals and sex trafficking victims.
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When sex workers go missing, who responds?
In 2017, Alloura Wells went missing. When police refused to file a missing persons report, sex workers stepped up to search for their friend. This is the story of the search for Alloura, and sex workers’ calls to abolish the police.
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A union for sex workers
Canada’s sole sex worker’s union wants to organize the industry coast to coast. But with members spread out in different cities, and working for online services like OnlyFans, how much support can a union provide?
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Sexual sovereignty
Indigenous sex workers continue to pave the way for sexual liberation. How is this fundamental to Land Back?
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Sask Dispatch
City’s body rub parlour decision risks worker safety
City council voted to restrict body rub parlours to industrial areas, citing safety as a reason. But some workers say the decision will make their work more dangerous.
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“At least hookers get wages”
If sex were factored out of the equation, sugaring would look a lot like the precarious gig economy jobs of Uber drivers or bike couriers. And – like in other web-based jobs – sugar babies in Montreal are struggling to develop collective strength with their fellow workers.
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Taking sex workers seriously
How have restrictive new laws like America’s FOSTA/SESTA and Canada’s PCEPA impacted sex workers’ labour conditions? Lindsay Blewett reviews Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance
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The loud silence of queer poverty
In every sense that matters, poverty is a 2S-LGBTQ issue. So why aren’t mainstream Canadian 2S-LGBTQ organizations treating it as such? And who’s picking up their slack?
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Stolen Sisters, Sex Workers, and Conservative Saviours
The Conservative government’s rhetoric on missing and murdered Indigenous women and sex workers creates victims in order to silence women.
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Talking about Sex Work
With the Conservative government set to pass new legislation affecting sex workers, a former sex worker says labour organizing, not criminalization, is what the industry needs.