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.
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 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…