While much remains to be done, the shift marks a welcome sea change for the sex-worker rights movement and its historically rocky relationship with feminism.

Current sex work laws in Canada make it impossible for sex workers to make a living without discrimination.

For the past year, low-income Asian women in Newmarket, Ontario have been engaged in a fierce battle with the town’s council, which has been working to close down their massage businesses by claiming that the workers are both disreputable criminals and sex trafficking victims.

Xtra is exploring what sexual liberation means in the 21st century through the six-part series Protest and Pleasure by activist and writer Chanelle Gallant.

All massage workers need stronger rights and less policing.

Looking back at the women’s bathhouse raids and their aftermath, one organizer says that reforms don’t lead to real change and the only fix for policing is to abolish it.

The murder of a massage worker has led to a historic charge of incel-related terrorism. But that’s just a symbol, not real action, and not the route to meaningful change for sex workers, or women at large.

At least two Canadian sex workers have been killed in 2020. Callous legislation is a big reason their work was so unsafe, and it’s still putting women at risk.

The virus might not discriminate, but society sure does. How white people can push for an anti-racist future.

We need a #MeToo movement to confront sexual harassment and abuse from intimate partners.

As a sexual assault survivor, I want other white women survivors to understand that rape culture and racism are a package deal.

While some feminists have applauded these harsher laws against prostitution, sex workers and their allies continue to struggle for justice. In this roundtable, we go beyond legal arguments to see who is benefiting from these laws.

“Well, then I guess there’s no God.” I decide this as I walk home from my best friend Anabelle’s house in the suburbs of Ottawa…

A sex work activist on why it's so important to believe Stoya.

Do you know what it’s like for a dominant top to get a crush, for someone like me, whose mouth waters for submission from my lovers? I still swallow hard and hope the person I like will text me back. I just don’t blush.