Get organized.

The far right uses this manufactured fear of sex workers and trans people in order to capture political power.

Who benefits from the creation of highly developed anti-trans and anti–sex work politics? The criminal justice system.

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.

Chapter 14: Rights Not Rescue: Defending Migrant Sex Workers from Policing, co-authored with Elene Lam, is part of this collection that imagines a different world where police power is eroded and dissolved forever.

Editorial fact-checking is important not only for the sake of journalistic accuracy but also as a tool for addressing broader issues of trust and inclusion.

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.

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing.

Co-author with Andrea Zanin, this chapter in Dis/Consent contributes to the argument that the conversations happening today around consent and sexual violence ignore and erase the multiple forms of oppression that are part and parcel of sexual violence.

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life?

The first collection of its kind to feature the art, activism, and writings of QTBIPOC in Toronto, Marvellous Grounds tells the stories that have shaped Toronto’s landscape but are frequently forgotten or erased. Chapter co-authored with Monica Forrester.

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

Red Light Labour addresses Canada’s legal regime regulating sex work with an advanced analysis of past and present policy approaches, and considers the ways in which laws and those who uphold them have constructed, controlled, and criminalized sex workers, their workspaces, colleagues, and clients. Chapter co-authored with Elene Lam.

Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches and conservative mores into a city that has consistently led the way in queer activism.

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

A research project and guideline for journalists and writers to report on sexual violence in Canada.

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.

The Smart Sex Worker's Guide to Sustainable Funding contains practical information on funding strategies for sex worker organisations. It discusses developing a funding strategy, applying for grants, financial management and community-based fundraising.

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.