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Photograph of the exterior of SWAP Hamilton's drop-in centre on Barton, at its grand opening in 2022.

CHCH-TV Morning Live segment, featuring Jelena Vermilion as she promotes SWAP Hamilton's Canada’s first Sex Workers’ Film and Arts Festival.

CHCH-TV segment on the assault and SWAP Hamilton vigil/demonstration.

Jelena Vermilion on CHCH Morning Live in 2023, discussing different areas of sex work, the need for decriminalization, and Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex.

Jelena Vermilion’s tribute video (2023) to Carol Leigh, featuring clips from SWAP Hamilton’s Sex Workers Take Back the Night 2020 event.

Poster distributed by Big Susie's, advertising their demonstration against Bill C-36.

Scan of a 1986 article published in the Hamilton Spectator, reporting on sex workers’ responses to legislation which facilitated their arrests, including vandalism and anonymous calls to the newspaper’s office.

Hamilton Evening Times spread from 1907, including a short article entitled "Want Inspector", reporting on a recommendation from the Hamilton Citizen's League to introduce a separate office enforcing laws on public morality.

Hamilton Evening Times spread from 1893, including a short article entitled "John Street Dive Raided: A Brace of Soiled Doves in the Prisoner’s Dock". This article describes a raid on a brothel, the arrests of a madam and sex worker, and their…

Photograph of Chevranna Abdi in 2001-2002, digitally colourized by Jelena Vermilion.