Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform

Les travailleuses du sexe sont aussi des mères! Et nous faisons des excellentes mères. À toutes les mères dérouées, épuisées, monoparentales, choisies et enceintes parmi nous: ces fleurs sont pour vous. #moms #sexwork

#Sexworkers are mothers. To all the devoted mothers, exhausted mothers, single mothers, chosen mothers, house mothers, and expecting mothers among us. Bonne fêtes des mères aux travailleuses du sexe.

Consider joining our friends at Butterfly (www.butterflysw.org) on May 21st for a powerful event in recognition of #AsianHeritageMonth, exposing how anti-Asian racism is embedded in the regulation of massage parlours and anti-trafficking policies. To register visit: www.eventbrite.ca/e/together-w...

Labour Rights for #SexWorkers. #MayDay #May1 #workersrights

Droits de travail pour les travailleuses du sexe! #May1 #WorkersRights #Mayday #sexwork #sexworkers

Es-tu une #TDS #sexworker #montréalaise #mtl avec expérience en production de podcast? Montage musical, enregistrements sur le terrain et d’intros et d’outros ? Connaissance de Garage Band et Podcastle

Contrat rémunéré. 10h/sem juin-sept 2025

Postule: jenn@chezstella.org avant 17 avr 17 h

Are you a #Mtl #sexworker w/ experience producing podcasts? Experience in sound engineering? Editing music, field recordings, & recording intros & outros? Know Garage Band and Podcastle?
Paid contract. 10hrs/week, /w June-Sept 2025

Apply to jenn@chezstella.org by Apr 17, 5pm

HIV criminalization and the Canadian government’s failed law reform project: Another. Incredible. Disappointment. Surprise! | CATIE Blog The Government of Canada has broken its promise to reform the laws that criminalize people living with HIV. In November 2024, the Federal Justice Minister’s office informed the Canadian Coalition to…

HIV criminalization and the Canadian government’s failed law reform project, from Chad Clarke & Colin Johnson

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##HIVISNOTACRIME

#DannyCockerline (1960-1995) was a #PornStar, journalist, #Activist and a Maggie's co-founder who played a pivotal role in the #SexWorker☂️ rights movement in Canada🇨🇦. Now you can learn more about him thanks to a digital exhibit by Ryan Conrad at: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho.... Check it out 😎

Sex trafficker gets 3 years in prison, judge calls actions reprehensible | CBC News A 19-year-old woman was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to sex-trafficking charges involving two girls in the Moncton-area.

Trafficking frameworks obscure real issues and divert needed resources to antis and law enforcement. The 19-yr old "trafficker" lays bare what youth need but criminal frameworks are more appealing to law enforcement and easier to ignore real issues for youth. #sexwork www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sex trafficker gets 3 years in prison, judge calls actions reprehensible | CBC News A 19-year-old woman was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to sex-trafficking charges involving two girls in the Moncton-area.

This is often what youth #sexwork looks like - calling it trafficking distracts from the many needs one has when leaving home, including money to survive, kinship and community (sometimes it can be violent). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Liam Michaud, Emily van der Meulen, and HIV Legal Network Co-Executive Directors Janet Butler-McPhee and Sandra Ka Hon Chu analyze the legal ambiguity and moral injury created by Canada’s Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act:

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A constitutional challenge being heard today, brought forward by @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and two individual Applicants, will determine whether a number of life-saving supervised consumption sites in the province can continue to operate past the end of this month.

It's International women's day today! Love and solidarity to all sex workers! #IWD2025 #IWD #March8WomenDay

Still time to register!

Join CAAN and the HIV Legal Network for a community consultation regarding the tools that will be used to measure Canada’s actions since signing on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

March 6, 2025 - 2:00pm–3:30pm EST

Register here: t.ly/NJwwZ

For migrant sex workers, police are the ‘most dangerous gang’ in the business ⋆ The Breach A new book breaks down how anti-sex trafficking laws, masquerading as ‘protection’, put migrant sex workers at greater risk of violence and exploitation

Police call them "rescue" operations.

For migrant sex workers, they mean raids, strip searches, stolen wages, and deportation.

A new book by Chanelle Gallant & Elene Lam breaks down how policing puts migrant sex workers at greater risk. Read an excerpt: breachmedia.ca/for-migrant-...

Maggie's Toronto: Your Favourite Local Nonprofit Whorganization Maggie's Toronto is Canada's oldest sex worker justice initiative offering case management, drop in programming, harm reduction services and safety planning to current and former sex workers across th...

(1/2) They haven't posted much yet. However, I'd figure I'd direct folks to Maggie's (@maggiestoronto.bsky.social). Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project is Canada's oldest sex worker justice initiative offering wrap-around services to current and former sex workers: www.maggiestoronto.org

Join CAAN and the HIV Legal Network for a community consultation regarding the tools that will be used to measure Canada’s actions since signing on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

March 6, 2025 - 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST

Register here: t.ly/NJwwZ

04 mars 2025 - 15h Abidjan - 10h Toronto - 16h Paris

Contact: info@hivelgalnetwork.ca

(10/11) It is so important to support sex workers, and especially sex worker artists, because it is often assumed they can go uncompensated for their time and labour. Pumpka and their work deserve recognition, support, and praise.

The Sex Work Historian’s International Sex Workers' Rights Day infographic. The image is of a dark city skyline. The skyline features a red umbrella (the international symbol for sex workers’ rights), an open red door, an outline of the Belle statue (another reference to sex workers’ rights), a star in honour of Venus/Aphrodite (the goddess ruling sex work), and the symbol for The Sex Work Historian (a grey multi-coloured peach). Image courtesy of Pumpkabooty.

(1/11) It’s #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay! #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay began in 2001 when 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a festival despite prohibitionist groups’ efforts to prevent it.

Graphic of a Black femme person holding up a sign that says "SEX WORKERS RIGHTS DAY". Basis Yorkshire logo.

Graphic of red umbrella with text: "SEXWORK IS NOT ILLEGAL IN ENGLAND & WALES, BUT MANY ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH IT ARE." "A ‘prostitute’ is defined by law as someone who has offered or provided sexual services in return for any financial arrangement on at least one occasion. Working as a ‘prostitute’ in private is legal. It is illegal for a ‘prostitute’ to solicit or loiter in a public place. A brothel is defined as premises where two or more ‘prostitutes’ or escorts work. It is an offence for a person to keep, or to manage, or act or assist in the management of, a brothel."

Graphic with text: "Basis Sex Work Project can provide you with safety, information and support surrounding your rights and welfare. We can also provide specialist information on sex work, the law and sex worker rights." "Call or email the office (10am-5pm Monday to Friday - except thursdays): 0113 243 0036 or info-basis@basisyorkshire.org.uk"

It's International Sex Worker' Rights Day! ☂

Today, sex workers around the world continue to call for safety, justice and inclusion. Although sex work is not illegal in England & Wale, many activities associated with it are.

Find out more: buff.ly/4id85xr

#ISWRD #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay

A flier with a static pattern background, yellow and white letters that talk about an event for international sex worker rights day. March 2, 2025 2p PST | 5p EST | 11p Europe Link: http://TINYURL.COM/3MAR2025

Please share and attend if you can. There will be a lot of worldwide SW orgs sitting in on this ❤️

This event is being shared on behalf of @ bestpracticespolicyproject (IG)

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (@swaiireland.bsky.social) Ahead of International Women's Day join Red Umbrella Éireann and the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland for a discussion on why sex worker-led groups advocate for decriminalisation, and find out how the…

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Bonne journée internationale pour les droits des travailleuses.eurs du sexe!! #mars3 #sexwork #IDSWR

Happy International Day for #Sexworkers Rights! #mars3 #sexwork #IDSWR

On 🅰️ABORSH🅰️ S2, E5 @cdnswalliance.bsky.social, the Canadian Public Health Association + social scientist Cecilia Benoit join @rachelcairns.bsky.social to explore how abortion & sex work both call into play deeply rooted cultural beliefs about female sexuality:

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Immigrant and migrant sex workers in Canada deserve better rights Newcomers to Canada have enough challenges already.

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Licensing is often used as a tool to control & surveil #sexworkers in a context where #sexwork is already criminalized. Remove criminal laws against #sexwork then these convos might make sense t.co/ebJ4dNnWgm

This single mom says her son's education comes first. That's why she does sex work | CBC News This Sask. mom says a regular 9 to 5 job isn't possible for her when her son doesn't have consistent access to an educational assistant at school. The lack of certainty and potential cuts to education...

With love to #sexworking moms. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...