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These resources are authored or co-authored by sex worker activists themselves. Keep in mind that these categories are meant to be helpful and have a great deal of overlap between them. Please feel free to read, print & share them widely--just also take care to give proper credit to the authors.
indigenous sex work resources
-Indigenous People In The Sex Trade: Our Life, Our Bodies, Our Realities. (Feb 14, 2012)
Press Release in Support of the 21st Annual Feb 14 Missing Women's Rally
Statement
-The Aboriginal Sex Workers Education And Outreach Project
-Decriminalization of Sex Work and Indigenous Youth and Communities
-Indigenous Perspectives on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
-Sex work, migration and anti-trafficking: Interviews with Nandita Sharma and Jessica Yee
-Violence Against Indigenous Canadian Sex Workers
-Indigenous Peoples in The Sex Trade--Speaking For Ourselves
-Government blames sex workers for violence used against them
-Colonial Roots, Contemporary Risk Factors: A cautionary exploration of the domestic trafficking of Aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia, Canada (page 27-31)
-Whorephobia by Kwe Today
-Bedford V. Canada by Kwe Today
-Maggie's at Sisters in Spirit Vigil, 2011 (click here for subtitled version)
trans sex work resources
-Statement for Social Service Agencies and Transsexual/Transgendered Organizations on Service Delivery to Transsexual and Transvestite Prostitutes
impacts of criminalization on sex workers
Voices For Dignity: A Call To End the Harms Caused by Canada's Sex Trade Laws (Pivot Legal Society)
Beyond Decriminalization: Sex Work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform (by Pivot Legal Society)
Why Criminalizing Clients Won't Work (podcast) by Katrina Pacey
migrant sex workers resources
-War on Terror & War on Trafficking: A Sex Worker Activist Confronts the Anti-Trafficking Movement.
-Migrant Sex Work Roundtable (with Debbie Brock, Kara Gillies, Chantelle Oliver and Mook)
for service providers to sex workers
-The Toolkit: Ottawa area sex workers speak out
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