Chanelle Gallant
@chanellegallant.bsky.social
Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (Haymarket Books, 2024)
Organizer. Writer.
Organizer. Writer.
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Kicking us off is a fantastic piece about solidarities in action by Elene Lam & @chanellegallant.bsky.social .
Lots to learn here from Butterfly about how Asian migrant sex workers have organised across silos in Canada and the US.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Lots to learn here from Butterfly about how Asian migrant sex workers have organised across silos in Canada and the US.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
In the fight for sex workers’ rights, this is solidarity
Over 300 migrant sex workers took on city hall to keep their businesses, showing the power of collective organising
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November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Kicking us off is a fantastic piece about solidarities in action by Elene Lam & @chanellegallant.bsky.social .
Lots to learn here from Butterfly about how Asian migrant sex workers have organised across silos in Canada and the US.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Lots to learn here from Butterfly about how Asian migrant sex workers have organised across silos in Canada and the US.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
truthout.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
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In our latest, we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
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Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam (08/11/25) | The Death Panel
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August 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
In our latest, we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
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Tangentially related, from @chanellegallant.bsky.social :
"Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.... Most go unreported, buried in sealed indictments."
"Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.... Most go unreported, buried in sealed indictments."
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
truthout.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Tangentially related, from @chanellegallant.bsky.social :
"Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.... Most go unreported, buried in sealed indictments."
"Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.... Most go unreported, buried in sealed indictments."
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Now unlocked: we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
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Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam (Unlocked)
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September 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Now unlocked: we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
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May 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“How has the public’s idea about migrant sex workers become so twisted that their being held in a cage could be described as freedom? Why are brutality and terror seen as promoting public safety, so long as the abuser is the state?” @chanellegallant.bsky.social & Elene Lam inquest.org/the-righ...
The Right to Be Called Workers - Chanelle Gallant & Elene Lam - Inquest
Language of ‘trafficking’ and ‘slavery’ disempowers migrant sex workers while directing attention away from state violence.
inquest.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“How has the public’s idea about migrant sex workers become so twisted that their being held in a cage could be described as freedom? Why are brutality and terror seen as promoting public safety, so long as the abuser is the state?” @chanellegallant.bsky.social & Elene Lam inquest.org/the-righ...
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Great event w @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam and @redcanarysong.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Great event w @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam and @redcanarysong.bsky.social
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"The most important reason we need a culture of care in our organizations is that we won’t win without it. Winning requires growth. Growth requires building community. Community requires genuine caring ..." - @chanellegallant.bsky.social @tom-malleson.bsky.social @surjto.bsky.social
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A Culture of Care: The Secret to Building Organizations People Want to Stay In
What we learned about organizing white folks away from the racist right.
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April 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The most important reason we need a culture of care in our organizations is that we won’t win without it. Winning requires growth. Growth requires building community. Community requires genuine caring ..." - @chanellegallant.bsky.social @tom-malleson.bsky.social @surjto.bsky.social
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read the full story in our book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-n...
March 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
read the full story in our book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-n...
thank you @truthout.org for letting us share the power of migrant sex worker resistance 🧨
Hyper-criminalized migrant sex workers show us how everyday people evade, defy and resist state control and punishment.
Migrant Sex Workers’ Resistance Offers a Blueprint for Fighting Authoritarianism
Hyper-criminalized migrant sex workers show us how everyday people evade, defy and resist state control and punishment.
truthout.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
thank you @truthout.org for letting us share the power of migrant sex worker resistance 🧨
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There are a whole lot of people and communities who have been living and organizing outside of the state for a very long time and it’s worth listening to them in this moment
Hyper-criminalized migrant sex workers show us how everyday people evade, defy and resist state control and punishment.
February 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Chanelle Gallant, coauthor “Not Your Rescue Project”, on centering migrant sex workers in liberation work, on the new episode of the pod episodes.fm/1653309103/e...
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Chanelle Gallant, coauthor “Not Your Rescue Project”, on centering migrant sex workers in liberation work, on the new episode of the pod episodes.fm/1653309103/e...
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Elene Lam (“Not Your Rescue Project”, Butterfly Asian & Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) on the self-appointed saviors who thrive in the anti-sex trafficking industrial complex
January 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Elene Lam (“Not Your Rescue Project”, Butterfly Asian & Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) on the self-appointed saviors who thrive in the anti-sex trafficking industrial complex
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“Not Your Rescue Project” co-author @chanellegallant.bsky.social defines “carceral feminism”, on the new episode of the podcast: episodes.fm/1653309103/e...
January 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“Not Your Rescue Project” co-author @chanellegallant.bsky.social defines “carceral feminism”, on the new episode of the podcast: episodes.fm/1653309103/e...