Screening of Jelena Vermilion's tribute video to Carol Leigh (1951-2022), who had founded the original Sex Workers’ Film & Arts Festival in San Francisco and inspired Canada's first like festival.
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for payphones and a safe drug supply.
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for prenatal supports and a safe house run by sex workers.
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for payphones, visibility, access to emergency services, and resources such as condoms, food,…
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for publicly accessible washrooms, self defense classes, and more.
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for community groups, as well as phones to call for emergency services.
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for lights and cameras in public areas, more outreach, and a dignified and safe space for work.
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for better lighting in alleyways, personal panic alarms, a way of keeping track of their…
Response from one of 40 participants in the Photovoice Research project with the YWCA Hamilton’s gender-based safety audit. This participant noted a need for improved access to STI testing, respectful and attentive police services when reporting…
Scan of the front page of COYOTE HOWLS, vol. 5, no. 1, spring 1978. The headlining article recounts a sex worker's story of a 'bad date' which led to assault charges laid against a former library guard at San Francisco State University.