Showing posts with label sex workers' rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex workers' rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

The Naked Truth: Susan Davis on the life of a migrant sex worker

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Photo of Susan Davis from the Naked Truth website There's few better ways to start to understand sex work than reading the writing o...
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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Please share this sex work podcast of mine and end this ludicrous, unfair stigma

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Listening to the conversations of sex workers talking about their work is a privilege for me that lifts me up no matter how low the ways o...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Our sexwork podcast has been launched!

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I am remarkably excited that the long-talked-about podcast with sex workers that I've been wanting to do for more than a year now has...
Thursday, July 06, 2017

Stop Operation Northern Spotlight. Stand up for sex workers' rights. Don't be the modern-day version of Martin Luther King's blandly dangerous 'white moderate'

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I'm adding my voice to what I hope will be an ever-larger chorus of British Columbians asking that police departments in BC refuse to ...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2016

When good words go bad: The usurping of trafficking as a weapon against sex workers

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Were I a cartoon character, I expect I'd have big red flags and maybe some small explosions coming out of my head these days after readi...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

#Rolls4Strolls: Let's put an RV back on Victoria's sex-work strolls

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Fundraising was never my thing in my journalist years, and I felt very awkward about it back in 2004 when I realized that as the new exe...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Cue the triumphal chorus: Amnesty International passes policy supporting decriminalization of sex work

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    This is an amazing day for the sex workers' rights movement with the news that Amnesty International has approved its draft poli...
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Inflated human trafficking statistics serve nobody

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     Found myself making a long, ranty comment on a Facebook thread this morning and realized, hey, that could be a blog post. Those o...
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Saturday, December 06, 2014

Bad sex work law takes effect on the day of a massacre - "How horribly, enragingly appropriate"

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 On this day of mourning marking the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, another reason to mourn: Bill C36, Canada's flawed and tr...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Singalong for Canadian Sex Workers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4noARYayM     And as the UK legislature moves to reject the criminalizing of sex buyers, Canada s...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Justin Trudeau's stand on decriminalizing still a work in progress

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    While I keep my distance from politics, I've somehow ended up on the federal Liberal email list and have been receiving message...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Revised post: First day of Senate invitation list shuts out sex workers, but things improve on Days 2 and 3

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  And yet another revision as of Sept. 10: Yes, the speaker lineup had more balance than I initially thought, but sex-worker organizations ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

I'm just going to keep saying this: Stop Bill C-36

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     I wrote this response to a couple of my Facebook friends just now on a great comment thread that has developed on my Facebook site...
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

CUPE Ontario has the right idea: Sex work regs ought to be about workers' rights

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    CUPE is my new favourite union now that CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn has written a piece in the National Post saying the thing Ca...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Anti-sex work revamp is just so wrong

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Could this be Peter MacKay? How timely to have University of Victoria researcher Cecilia Benoit and her team looking into the realitie...
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