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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…

Letter of congratulations from MPP Sandy Shaw (on behalf of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario) to Jelena Vermilion for her nomination for YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) Hamilton's 2024 Women of Distinction Award.

Letter of congratulations from Mayor Andrea Horwath of the City of Hamilton to Jelena Vermilion for her nomination for YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) Hamilton's 2024 Women of Distinction Award.

Photographed by Leif Harmsen
March 1984
Toronto, Ontario
Dye coupler print from a digital image of a gelatin silver print
Gift of Courtnay McFarlane
Courtesy of The Family Camera Network and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives