Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform
@cdnswalliance.bsky.social
#SexWorker and Allied Organizations Advocating for Sex Workers’ #Rights & #Community Well-Being. Advocates 4 Full #Decriminalization of #SexWork in #Canada www.sexworklawreform.com
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Our Constitutional Challenge to PCEPA
In 2013, the SCC in Bedford v. Canada deemed three prostitution prohibitions unconstitutional because they caused harm to sex workers and contravened their rights to liberty and security. In 2014, …
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Read about #sexworkers taking the government to court here: sexworklawreform.com/our-constitu... #RepealPCEPA
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#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.
May 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#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.
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May 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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May 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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
Contrat rémunéré. 10h/sem juin-sept 2025
Postule: jenn@chezstella.org avant 17 avr 17 h
April 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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
Contrat rémunéré. 10h/sem juin-sept 2025
Postule: jenn@chezstella.org avant 17 avr 17 h
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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
Paid contract. 10hrs/week, /w June-Sept 2025
Apply to jenn@chezstella.org by Apr 17, 5pm
April 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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
Paid contract. 10hrs/week, /w June-Sept 2025
Apply to jenn@chezstella.org by Apr 17, 5pm
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HIV criminalization and the Canadian government’s failed law reform project, from Chad Clarke & Colin Johnson
blog.catie.ca/2025/04/02/h...
##HIVISNOTACRIME
blog.catie.ca/2025/04/02/h...
##HIVISNOTACRIME
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…
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April 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
HIV criminalization and the Canadian government’s failed law reform project, from Chad Clarke & Colin Johnson
blog.catie.ca/2025/04/02/h...
##HIVISNOTACRIME
blog.catie.ca/2025/04/02/h...
##HIVISNOTACRIME
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.
www.cbc.ca
March 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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/...
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/...
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.
www.cbc.ca
March 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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/...
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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:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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.
March 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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.
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It's International women's day today! Love and solidarity to all sex workers! #IWD2025 #IWD #March8WomenDay
March 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It's International women's day today! Love and solidarity to all sex workers! #IWD2025 #IWD #March8WomenDay
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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
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
March 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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
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
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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-...
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-...
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
breachmedia.ca
March 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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-...
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-...
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(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
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...
www.maggiestoronto.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
(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
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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
March 6, 2025 - 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST
Register here: t.ly/NJwwZ
March 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
March 6, 2025 - 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST
Register here: t.ly/NJwwZ
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04 mars 2025 - 15h Abidjan - 10h Toronto - 16h Paris
Contact: info@hivelgalnetwork.ca
Contact: info@hivelgalnetwork.ca
March 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
04 mars 2025 - 15h Abidjan - 10h Toronto - 16h Paris
Contact: info@hivelgalnetwork.ca
Contact: info@hivelgalnetwork.ca
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(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.
March 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
(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.
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(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.
March 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
(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.
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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 #ISWRD class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">out more: buff.ly/4id85xr
#ISWRD #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay
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 #ISWRD class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">out more: buff.ly/4id85xr
#ISWRD #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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 #ISWRD class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">out more: buff.ly/4id85xr
#ISWRD #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay
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 #ISWRD class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">out more: buff.ly/4id85xr
#ISWRD #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay
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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)
This event is being shared on behalf of @ bestpracticespolicyproject (IG)
March 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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)
This event is being shared on behalf of @ bestpracticespolicyproject (IG)
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📅 3pm TODAY! 📅
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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March 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
📅 3pm TODAY! 📅
