What about sex workers? Mark Carney @RechieValdez Fae Johnstone 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Sex Work Law Reform

We are so proud to announce that we are a new member of the Community-Based Research Canada (CBRCanada) network! 🎉 🥳 🎊 #CBRCanada #CommunityBasedResearch #HarmReduction @CityofHamilton Centre for Community Based Research

Hey Deirdre Pike she/her/they/them: Hamilton Police Sgt. Rebecca Moran wouldn't charge the guy who assaulted TS Jelena Vermilion - 💉FULLY VACCINATED x5 💉MPx2 until Lisa Johnson demanded it because a crowd of hundreds of people witnessed it. Rebecca didn't want to help me and refused to testify at the trial to help! 🤢 🤕 🤮

Questions for Andrea Horwath via @SWAPHamilton: On Gentrification and Moral Regulation -Your 2002 motion to ban adult entertainment parlours from the downtown core was framed as a revitalization effort. How do you reconcile this with the understanding that such measures often

I am proud to get these in the museum finally 🙌 Thank you to original Lusty Lady workers Pandora and Katrina for allowing me to purchase these artefacts of sex workers' union organizing and activism history from the former San Francisco Lusty Lady ✊ ️CC: @LilyBurana

Trans and Non-Binary Sex Workers Demand Accountability from Major Canadian Non-Profits FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A coalition of over two dozen trans sex worker activists, peer workers, and community leaders across Canada are calling out systemic transmisogyny, exclusion, and

Was asked to share, and groups like SWAP Hamilton (run by a trans SWer) are the under-represented demographic in SW we exist to serve and help raise their voices. If they are struggling with feeling supported they need and deserve to be heard. There is an ongoing concern with

From erotic open‐mics to film screenings, there’s a movement to reclaim pleasure in Toronto. I spoke w/ the organizers behind Natural Born Sinners reading series, filmmaker Kalil Haddad, and TS Jelena Vermilion - 💉FULLY VACCINATED x5 💉MPx2 about art, sex, and censorship for The Grind. thegrindmag.ca/torontos-pleas…

Man convicted of hate crime for attack at Take Back the Night march 👉 thespec.com/news/crime/man… Two Hamilton advocacy groups told a judge the 2023 attack had a chilling effect on women’s safety and community trust

Yet you have completely ignored sex workers -cis and trans, migrant, racialized, and disabled people - who sell sex.

Hello Rob Ashton Heather McPherson Yves Engler Avi Lewis Tony McQuail for NDP Leader The criminalization of sex work in Canada via Stephen Harper's Bill C-36 AKA the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) deleteriously impacts sex workers' access to housing, healthcare,

Thank you to @ChrisrHampton from CBC Arts for speaking with me about my donation of two of the original Lusty Lady marquee signs to the Worker's Arts and Heritage Centre (Workers Arts & Heritage Centre) - Canada's only labour history museum. CC: Tara Bursey cbc.ca/arts/at-a-muse…

Please join us at @SWAPHamilton in revering the commemorative December 17th's International Day to end Violence Against Sex Workers, founded by Annie Sprinkle and Robin Few of @SWOPUSA CC: Andrea Horwath City of Hamilton Hamilton Police Naomi Sayers 💕 NSWP

We're looking for students in a music program or performing arts school to audition for a musical. It is a research project (Therese Bernier, PhD is the project director) Please share widely, thanks! (Non-students are also welcome.) @SWAPHamilton is the cultural community partner.

Just a heads up that C.O.R.A’S is a sham and is trying to make money off of the backs of sex workers while pretending to be a non-profit. Do not trust them. I brought up concerns to them and they immediately blocked me and pretending to be diplomatic. Not trustworthy.

Indigenous Lawyer (Naomi Sayers) Files Divisional Court Challenge Over Police Database Abuse Investigation [Link in stories]: apnews.com/press-release/… cc Dr. Michael F. Motala, HBa, MSc, MA, JD, PhD FRSA

The funny thing about outing a sex work archivist's legal name is that the archivist instinctually documents the transgression. The record is indelible and if you continue to fraudulently claim legitimacy in the sex worker non-profit space again, the evidence will resurface.

BREAKING: Ontario’s inspector general of policing is launching a province-wide inspection into police corruption at all municipal services and the OPP ctvnews.ca/toronto/articl…