- Bill C36: A Dangerous Way Forward
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In Ottawa this week between September 9-11th, sex workers, sex worker rights organizations and allies of sex workers will be appearing as witnesses before the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to speak to Bill C36
- Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Down With Tory Crackdown on Prostitution!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Tories, who have slashed billions from social programs and caused immeasurable harm to poor and working-class women, have fraudulently promoted Bill C-36 as a way of protecting victims of "exploitation." In this they are backed by an unholy alliance of right-wing outfits like REAL Women of Canada and the feminist groups that make up the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
- First register; then turn tricks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A new prostitution law to include compulsory registration meant to fight human trafficking and exploitation is not popular in the industry, and may lead to a return of prostitution going underground.
- Good Girls, Bad Girls
Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
- Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
- June 8, 2013: Sex Workers' National Day of Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
On June 8th sex workers and allies across Canada will hold actions in 6 cities across Canada in support of repealing prostitution laws currently being challenged.
- Meet the Fokkens
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2011
A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
- Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
- National Day of Action Against Bill C36: Criminalization Costs Sex Workers’ Lives
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Across Canada, sex worker groups, along with organizations and individuals that support human rights and women's rights, are gathering to denounce the Conservative government's proposed bill (C36) to re-criminalize sex work.
- Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work.
- Prostitution ban won't hit England, 'too many politicians' visit sex workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of "danger and poverty." In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker challenged the idea of the law spreading to England, claiming "too many" influential people visit prostitutes.
- Prostitution Rights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2000
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Red Menace #5
Summer 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.
- Sex in History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Tannahill draws on the findings of anthropology, archaeology, bio-chemistry, genetics, physiology, and psychoanalysis, as well as art, architecture, literature, and theology, in order to place the human sex drive and its social and moral consequences in their widest historical perspective.
- Sex Work Advocates Make Their Voices Heard While Ontario Considers Harmful New Sex Work Laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Sex worker advocates insist that Ontario Attorney General Meillleur must meet with them and consider the mounting opposition to the misguided laws.
- Sex workers decry government consultation on prostitution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Maggie's - Toronto Sex Workers' Action Project, along with sex workers and other experts, question the legitimacy of the federal government online consultation around prostitution in Canada.
- SexSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
- Who Cares?
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
- Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
- A Win for Sex Workers - A Win for Safety, Equality, and Justice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Supreme Court of Canada has released a unanimous decision striking down all three prostitution laws, paving the way for more safety, justice and equality for sex workers in Canada.
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