Overview
The introduction of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) on 6 December 2014 fundamentally changed the regulatory landscape surrounding prostitution in Canada. POWER’s Research Repository (RR) is a clearinghouse of research about the implications of this new legal context. To that end the RR below brings together academic and community knowledges with a particular focus on post-PCEPA research. POWER does not endorse the literature in the RR, but aspires to facilitate access to a wide range of community and scholarly knowledge on sex work in Canada. We do so without assuming a position in relation to the ideas or positions taken by authors.
Methodology
For this project we developed a detailed inclusion/exclusion criteria. In brief, entries were only added to the RR below if they were published works (no blogs or news sites) from 2015 forward and were either exclusively or in large part about Canadian sex workers or Canadian sex work laws. Publications that are about trafficking were excluded unless the author was making a comparative analysis and significantly acknowledged the difference between trafficking and sex work. For example, an article about how the discourse on trafficking impacts migrant sex workers’ rights would be included while an article on how trafficking impacts racialized women would not. While trafficking deserves to be studied as rigorously as any other social issue, its conflation with sex work as well as its over-representation in popular culture and scholarship alike requires explicit clarity in how it does and does not appear in POWER’s RR.
Pre-2015 research
Before diving into the RR below we would like to draw your attention to two pre-PCEPA bibliographies. The first, Anglophone Research and Related Work on Prostitution in Canada, was compiled by John Lowman who generously allowed us to post it. It includes research up till 1 January 2012. The second bibliography (2012-2014 inclusive) was compiled by Zoey Jones and is available here. If there are missing reference please advise us and we will gladly add them to the appropriate bibliography.
*last update January 31 2022*
Books
2019
- Sex work activism in Canada: Speaking out, standing up (ARP Books)
Eds. Amy Lebovitch, Shawna Ferris
#activism
2018
- Red light labour: Sex work regulation, agency, and resistance (UBC Press)
Eds. Elya M. Durisin, Emily van der Meulen, Chris Bruckert
#regulation, #criminalization, #agency, #resistance, #third parties, #media, #clients, #policy, #law, #risk, #relationships, #youth, #advertising, #humanrights, #trafficking
– – – - Getting past “the Pimp”: Management in the sex industry (UT Press)
Eds. Chris Bruckert & Colette Parent
#thirdparties
2017
- Rock Paper Sex: The Oldest Profession in Canada’s Oldest City (Breakwater Books)
Kerri Cull
#Newfoundland, #SaintJohn’s, #ethnography
2016
- Sex work, immigration and social difference (Routledge)
Julie Ham
#migrantsexworkers, #racialized, #sex workers
2015
- Street sex work and Canadian cities: Resisting a dangerous order (The University of Alberta Press)
Shawna Ferris
#stigma, #race, #activism, #law, #policy, #media, #representation, #violence
Journal Articles
2021
- The Many Lives of a “Win”: Canada (Attorney General) v. Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society (Columbia Human Rights Law Review)
S. Priya Morley
#PCEPA, #criminalization, #law, #vancouver, #bedford
– – – - Access to sexual and reproductive health care among young adult sex workers in Toronto, Ontario: a mixed-methods study (CMAJ Open)
Lori E. Ross, Andrea Sterling, Cheryl Dobinson, Carmen H. Logie, & Sandra D’Souza
#youth, #toronto, #healthcare, #sexualhealth, #access, #stigma
– – – - Centering Sex Workers’ Voices in Law and Social Policy (Sexuality Research & Social Policy)
Cecilia Benoit, Róisín Unsworth, Priscilla Healey, Michaela Smith, & Mikael Jansson
#PCEPA, #criminalization, #policy, #agency, #decriminalization, #labour
– – – - Money, Agency, and Self-Care among Cisgender and Trans People in Sex Work (Social Sciences)
Treena Orchard, Katherine Salter, Mary Bunch, & Cecilia Benoit#transsexworkers, #agency, #safety, #violence, #selfcare
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Anna-Louise Crago, Chris Bruckert, Melissa Braschel, & Kate Shannon.
#criminalization, #police, #clients, #violence
– – – - The Cedar Project: Historical, structural and interpersonal determinants of involvement in survival sex work over time among Indigenous women who have used drugs in two Canadian cities (International Journal of Drug Policy)
Richa Sharma, Kate Jongbloed, David Zamar, Margo E. Pearce, April Mazzuca, Martin T. Schechter, Patricia M.Spittal, & The Cedar Project Partnership
#substanceuse, #survivalsexwork, #indigenouspeople, #Vancouver, #PrinceGeorge
- Harms of third party criminalisation under end-demand legislation: undermining sex workers’ safety and rights (Culture, Health & Sexuality)
Bronwyn McBride, Kate Shannon, Alka Murphy, Sherry Wu, Margaret Erickson, Shira M. Goldenberg, & Andrea Krüsi
#enddemand, #nordicmodel
- Negotiating sex work and client interactions in the context of a fentanyl-related overdose epidemic (Culture, Health & Sexuality)
Jennifer Lavalley, Alex B. Collins, Samara Mayer, Laurel Gaudette, Andrea Krüsi, Ryan McNeil, & Jade Boyd
#overdose, #violence
- The “Sociological Equation”: Intersections Between Street Sex Workers’ Agency and Their Theories about Their Customers (The Journal of Sex Research)
Susan Strega, Leah Shumka, & Helga Kristin Hallgrímsdóttir
#streetsexworkers
- Lack of full citizenship rights linked to heightened client condom refusal among im/migrant sex workers in Metro Vancouver (2010-2018) (Global Public Health)
Bronwyn McBride, Kate Shannon, Melissa Braschel, Minshu Mo, & Shira M. Goldenberg,
#migrantsexworkers, #enddemand, #HIV
- The Impacts of Intersecting Stigmas on Health and Housing Experiences of Queer Women Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada (Journal of Homosexuality)
Tara Lyons, Andrea Krüsi, Edna Edgar, Sylvia Machat, Thomas Kerr, & Kate Shannon
#Vancouver, #queer, #healthcare
- A different kind of risky business: Men who manage men in the sex industry (SAGE)
Tuulia Law
#malesexwork, #thirdparties
- Early Assessment of Integrated Knowledge Translation Efforts to Mobilize Sex Workers in Their Communities (Sexuality Research and Social Policy)
Cecilia Benoit, Róisín Unsworth
#mobilize, #PAR
- Centering Sex Workers’ Voices in Law and Social Policy (Sexuality Research and Social Policy)
Cecilia Benoit, Róisín Unsworth, Priscilla Healey, Michaela Smith, & Mikael Jansson
#harmreduction, #decriminalization
- Constraints and Opportunities of Stigma: Entrepreneurial Emancipation in the Sex Industry (Academy of Management Journal)
Tristh Ruebottom & Madeline Toubiana
#stigma, #qualitative, #emancipation
- Decriminalizing Domestic Violence and Fighting Prostitution Abolition: Lessons Learned from Canada’s Anti-Carceral Feminist Struggles (International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy)
Gillian Balfour
#abolition, #Indigenouswomen, #carceralfeminism, #violence
- Double Jeopardy: Maintaining Livelihoods or Preserving Health? The Tough Choices Sex Workers Faced during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Journal of Primary Care & Community Health)
Martine Shareck, Maha Hassan, Pearl Buhariwala, Melissa Perri, Ermalina Balla, & Patricia O’Campo
#healthpromotion, #accesstocare, #programs, #underservedcommunities
- Factors associated with transactional sex among a cohort of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada (Sexual Health)
Heather L. Armstrong, Jordan M. Sang, Ales Skala, Lu Wang, Julia Zhu, Nathan J. Lachowsky, Kiffer G. Card, Cecilia Benoit, Gbolahan Olarewaju, Robert S. Hogg, David M. Moore & Eric A. Roth
#HIV, #mentalhealth, #syndemicfactors, #MSM
- Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding (Critical Public Health)
Vicky Bungay, Adrian Gutab, Colleen Varcoea, Allie Slemon a, Eli Manning c, Scott Comberd & Melissa Perri
#healthresearch, #stigma, #funding
- Income generation and the patterning of substance use: A gender-based analysis (Drug and Alcohol Dependence)
Kaitlyn Jaffe, Ekaterina Nosova, Lisa Maher, Kanna Hayashi, M-J Milloy & Lindsey Richardson
#gender, #substanceuse
- Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Sex Work: A Double-Edged Sword for Occupational Health and Safety (social sciences)
Sunny Jiao, Vicky Bungay & Emily Jenkins
#indoorsexwork, #stigma, #technology, #criminalization
- Job Attributes and Mental Health: A Comparative Study of Sex Work and Hairstyling (social sciences)
Bill McCarthy, Mikael Jansson & Cecilia Benoit
#mentalhealth, #servicework, #hairstyling
- Sex Work Governance Models: Variations in a Criminalized Context (Sexuality Research and Social Policy)
Genevieve Fuji Johnson & Kerry Porth
#prostitution, #policy, #criminalization
- Managing the toll of sex work with bounded agency: Perspectives of ex-sex workers (The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality)
Mathilde Turcotte & Nadine Lanctôt
#women, #agency
- Mapping Workplace Neighborhood Mobility Among Sex Workers in an Urban Canadian Setting: Results of a Community-Based Spatial Epidemiological Study From 2010-2016 (Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
Ofer Amram, Kate Shannon, Melissa Braschel, Sylvia Machat, Sarah Moreheart, Tara Lyons, & Shira M. Goldenberg
#mobility, #displacement, #work
- Overdose among mothers: The association between child removal and unintentional drug overdose in a longitudinal cohort of marginalised women in Canada (International Journal of Drug Policy)
Meaghan Thumath, David Humphreys, Jane Barlow, Putu Duffa, Melissa Braschel, Brittany Bingham, Sophie Pierre & Kate Shannon
#maternalhealth, #overdose, #childwelfare, #substanceuse
- Sex work and biopolitics: a Foucauldian analysis of Bill C-36 discourse in the Parliament of Canada (Politics, Groups, and Identities)
Mackenzie Claggett
#bipower, #Foucault, #colonialism
- Sex Work Research, Ethics Review Processes, and Institutional Challenges for “Sensitive” Collaborative Research (International Journal of Qualitative Methods)
Shawna Ferris, Amy Lebovitch, and Danielle Allard
#ethics, #feministresearch, #marginalized
- Health consequences of child removal among Indigenous and non-Indigenous sex workers: Examining trajectories, mechanisms and resiliencies (Sociology of Health and Illness)
Kathleen S. Kenny, Andrea Krüsi, Clare Barrington, Flo Ranville, Sherri L. Green, Brittany Bingham, Ronald Abrahams& Kate Shannon
#Indienous, #maternalhealth, #childprotection, #historicaltrauma
- The Relative Quality of Sex Work (Work, Employment and Society)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey & Douglas Magnuson
#workquality, #precarity, #structure
- Women’s multiple uses of an overdose prevention technology to mitigate risks and harms within a supportive housing environment: a qualitative study (BMC Women’s Health)
Geoff Bardwell, Taylor Fleming, Ryan McNeil & Jade Boyd
#housing, #women, #violence, #opioid, #overdose
2020
- Homosexuality and prostitution: A tale of two deviancies (University of Toronto Law Journal)
Ummni Khan
#lawreform, #rights, #criminalization, #queer, #historical
– – – - “It Is Important for Everyone as Humans to Feel Important, Right?” Findings from a Community Based Participatory Needs Assessment with Street-level Sex Workers (Social Work in Public Health)
Jodi Hall, Lorie Donelle, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Julie Baumann, Holly Weaver, Rosalie Jones, Magdalen Moulton-Sauve, Karen Jenkins, & Annalise Trudel
#health, #needsassessment, #community, #streetsexwork
– – – - The Role of Place in the Lives of Sex Workers: A Sociospatial Analysis of Two International Case Studies (Journal of Women and Social Work)
Alison Grittner and Kathleen C. Sitter
#geography, #workingconditions, #spacialanalysis
– – – - The impact of end-demand legislation on sex workers’ access to health and sex worker-led services: A community-based prospective cohort study in Canada (PLOSOne)
Elena Argento, Shira Goldenberg, Melissa Braschel, Sylvia Machat, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Kate Shannon
#violence, #health, #socialservices, #PCEPA, #criminalization
– – – - Social Science Evidence in Poverty-related Charter Claims: An Example in Bedford v Canada (Appeal: Review of Current Law and Law Reform)
Sydney McIvor
#bedford, #poverty, #law,
– – – - The Unconstitutional Nature of the Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex in Canada R v Anwar & Harvey 2020 ONCJ 103 (Journal of Criminal Law)
Zach Leggett
#thirdparties, #courts, #criminalization
– – – - The Invisible Women: Migrant and Immigrant Sex Workers and Law Reform in Canada (Studies in Social Justice)
Jamie Chai Yun Liew
#migrantsexworkers, #lawreform, #immigration
– – – - Attachments to Victimhood: Anti-Trafficking Narratives and the Criminalization of the Sex Trade (Social & Legal Studies)
Marcus Sibley
#criminalization, #discourse, #publicpolicy, #bedford
– – – - Seawater/C-Cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland (Imaginations Journal)
Daze Jefferies
#Newfoundland, #autoethnography, #transsexworkers
– – – - Police-related barriers to harm reduction linked to non-fatal overdose amongst sex workers who use drugs: Results of a community-based cohort in Metro Vancouver, Canada (International Journal of Drug Policy)
Shira Goldenberg, Sarah Watta, Melissa Braschela, Kanna Hayashib, Sarah Morehearta, Kate Shannon
#substanceuse, #police, #harmreduction, #Vancouver
– – – - Helping women transition out of sex work: study protocol of a mixed-methods process and outcome evaluation of a sex work exiting program (BMC Women’s Health)
Martine Shareck, Pearl Buhariwala, Maha Hassan, and Patricia O’Campo
#health, #exiting
– – – - Rates, Roses and Donations: Naming Your Price in Sex Work (Sociology)
Julie Ham
#Vancouver, #migrantsexworkers
– – – - The Relative Quality of Sex Work (Work, Employment and Society)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey, Douglas Magnuson
#precarity, #work, #structuraldisadvantages
– – – - Sexualized Nationalism and Federal Human Trafficking Consultations: Shifting Discourses on Sex Trafficking in Canada (Journal of Human Trafficking)
Elya M. Durisin and Emily van der Meulen
#discourse, #trafficking, #publicpolicy
– – – - Early Assessment of Integrated Knowledge Translation Efforts to Mobilize Sex Workers in Their Communities (Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Cecilia Benoit, Róisín Unsworth
#agency, #community
– – – - Using difference in intersectional research with im/migrant and racialized sex workers (Theoretical Criminology)
Julie Ham
#migrantsexwork, #racializedsexworkers, #intersectionality,
– – – - The hopelessness effect: Counsellors’ perceptions of their female clients involved in sex work in Canada (Health and Social Care in the Community)
Laurence Magnan-Trembley, Nadine Lanctôt, and Amélie Couvrette
#socialwork, #affect, sexworkersasclients
– – – - Pandemic sex workers’ resilience: COVID-19 crisis met with rapid responses by sex worker communities (International Social Work)
Elene Lam, Butterfly
#migrantsexworkers, #resilience, #covid19, #mutualaid
– – – - The “Sociological Equation”: Intersections Between Street Sex Workers’ Agency and Their Theories about Their Customers (The Journal of Sex Research)
Susan Strega, Leah Shumka, and Helga Kristín Hallgrímsdóttir
#streetsexwork, #agency, #clients
– – – - The right to life, liberty and security for prostitution: Canada v. Bedford (Women & Criminal Justice)
Natalie M. Snow, Mollee K. Steely, Tusty ten Bensel
#bedford, #law, #billc-36
2019
- Family Separation and Maternal Self‑rated Health: Evidence from a Prospective Cohort of Marginalized Mothers in a Canadian Setting (Maternal and Child Health Journal)
Kathleen S. Kenny, Flo Ranville, Sherri L. Green, Putu Duf, Melissa Braschel, Ronald Abrahams, Kate Shannon
#indigenouspeople, #mothers, #marginalization, #health
– – – - Experiences of Violence and Head Injury Among Women and Transgender Women Sex Workers (Sexuality Research and Social Policy)
Rebekah M. Baumann, Sarah Hamilton-Wright, Dana Lee Riley, Karen Brown, Cindy Hunt, Alicja Michalak, Flora I. Matheso
#transsexworkers, #transphobia, #violence, #stigma
– – – - Relationship boundaries, abuse, and internalized whorephobia (Sexual and Relationship Therapy)
Tiffany Tempest
#autoethnography, #stigma, #partnersofsexworkers
– – – - Boyfriends, lovers, and “peeler pounders”: experiences of interpersonal violence and stigma in exotic dancers’ romantic relationships (Sexual and Relationship Therapy)
Jacenta Bahri
#stigma, #stripclubs, #exoticdancing, #ethnography, #partnersofsexworkers
– – – - Preventing sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) among sex workers: a critical review of the evidence on determinants and interventions in high income countries (BMC Infectious Diseases)
Elena Argento, Shira Goldenberg, and Kate Shannon
#health, #HIV, #prevention, #risk, #systematicreview
– – – - Characterizing Men Who Have Sex with Men and Use Injection Drugs in Vancouver, Canada (AIDS and Behavior)
Ayden Scheim, Rod Knight, Hennady Shulha, Ekaterina Nosova, Kanna Hayashi, M.‑J. Milloy, Thomas Kerr, Kora DeBeck
#substanceuse, #malesexworkers, #Vancouver
– – – - Technologies for Social Justice: Lessons from Sex Workers on the Front Lines (CHI, conference proceedings)
Angelika Strohmayer, Jenn Clamen, and Mary Laing
#activism, #violence, #stella
– – – - Effectiveness of Anecdotes and Logically False Arguments to Refute Analysis Based on Systematically Collected Data (Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey, Doug Magnuson
#publicpolicy, #lawreform
– – – - “The Prostitution Problem”: Why Isn’t Evidence Used to Inform Policy Initiatives? (Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Frances Shaver
#publicpolicy, #lawreform
– – – - Mapping workplace neighborhood mobility among sex workers in an urban Canadian setting: Results of a community-based spatial epidemiological study from 2010-2016 (Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
Ofer Amram, Kate Shannon, Melissa Braschel, Sylvia Machat, Sarah Moreheart, Tara Lyons, and Shira M. Goldenberg
#displacement, #work
– – – - Canadian sex workers weigh the costs and benefits of disclosing their occupational status to health providers (Sexuality Research and Social Policy)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Samantha Magnus, Renay Maurice, Jackson Flagg, Dan Reist
#health, #healthcare, #stigma, #agency
– – – - “I dodged the stigma bullet”: Canadian sex workers’ situated responses to occupational stigma (Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Cecilia Benoit, Renay Maurice, Gillian Abel, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey, Douglas Magnuson
#inequality, #policy
– – – - Unlinking prostitution and sex trafficking: Response to commentaries (Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey, Doug Magnusson
#trafficking
– – – - Intersections of stigma, mental health, and sex work: How Canadian men engaged in sex work navigate and resist stigma to protect their mental health (The Journal of Sex Research)
Sunny Jiao, Vicky Bungay
#stigma, #mentalhealth, #malesexworkers
– – – - His reputation precedes him: Examining the construction and management of the pimp in strip clubs (Deviant Behavior)
Tuulia Law
#thirdparties, #stripclubs, #race
– – – - Sex workers’ experiences and occupational conditions post-implementation of end-demand criminalization in Metro Vancouver, Canada (Canadian Journal of Public Health)
Sylvia Machat, Kate Shannon, Melissa Braschel, Sarah Moreheart, Shira M. Goldenberg
#billc-36, #work
– – – - Harms of workplace inspections for im/migrant sex workers in in-call establishments: Enhanced barriers to health access in a Canadian setting (Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health)
Bronwyn McBride, Kate Shannon, Putu Duff, Minshu Mo, Melissa Braschel, Shira M. Goldenberg
#migrantsexworkers, #criminalization, #inequality, #health, #work
– – – - Third parties (venue owners, managers, security, etc.) and access to occupational health and safety among sex workers in a Canadian setting: 2010-2016 (American Journal of Public Health)
Bronwyn McBride, Shira M. Goldenberg, Alka Murphy, Melissa Braschel, Andrea Krüsi, Kate Shannon
#work, #thirdparties, #health
– – – - “People like us”: Spatialised notions of health, stigma, power and subjectivity among women in street sex work (Culture, Health & Sexuality)
Treena Orchard, Angelia Murie, Holli-Lynn Elash, Mary Bunch, Cathy Middleton, Danielle Sadakhom, Tor Oiamo, Cecilia Benoit
#health, #stigma, #streetsexwork, #violence, #subjectivity
– – – - Recent im/migration to Canada linked to unmet health needs among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: Findings of a longitudinal study(Health Care for Women International)
Julie Sou, Shira M. Goldenberg, Putu Duff, Paul Nguyen, Jean Shoveller, Kate Shannon
#health, #migrantsexworkers
– – – - Impacts of im/migration experience on work stress among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (Canadian Journal of Public Health)
Julie Sou, Kate Shannon, Jean Shoveller, Putu Duff, Melissa Braschel, Sabina Dobrer, Shira M. Goldenberg#migrantsexworkers, #stress, #work
– – – - Sex worker resistance in the neoliberal creative city: An auto/ethnography (Anti-Trafficking Review)
Alex Tigchelaar
#criminalization, #neoliberalism, #publicspace
– – – - Secours ou préjudice: Le profilage des travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe comme victimes de trafic humain (Reflets)
Lauren Montgomery, Emily Symons
#trafficking
– – – - The effect of violence and intersecting structural inequities on high rates of food insecurity among marginalized sex workers in a Canadian setting (Journal of Urban Health)
Daniella Barreto, Jeannie Shoveller, Melissa Braschel, Putu Duff, Kate Shannon
#foodinsecurity, #gender, #violence
– – – - Balance, capacity, and the contingencies of everyday life: Narrative etiologies of health among women in street-based sex work (Qualitative Health Research)
Treena Orchard, Angela Murie, Katherine Salter, Holli-Lynn Elash, Mary Bunch, Cathy Middleton, Cecilia Benoit
#health, #healthcare, #subjectivity
– – – - Street-involved youth engaged in sex work at increased risk of syringe sharing (AIDS Care)
Nikki Bozinoff, Lerly Luo, Huiru Dong, Andrea Krüsi, Kora DeBeck
#health, #substanceuse, #youth, #street-involved
– – – - Challenging the “Prostitution Problem”: Dissenting voices, sex buyers, and the myth of neutrality in prostitution research (Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Maddy Coy, Cherry Smiley, Meagan Tyler
#policy, #research, #gender, #clients, #trafficking
– – – - United by the problem, divided by the solution: How the issue of Indigenous women in prostitution was represented at the deliberations on Canada’s Bill C-36 (Canadian Journal of Women and the Law)
Zoë Goodall
#indigenouspeople, #law, #billc-36
– – – - Re(de)fining prostitution and sex work: Conceptual clarity for legal thinking (Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues)
Debra Haak
#law
– – – - Butterfly: Resisting the harms of anti-trafficking policies and fostering peer-based organising in Canada (Anti-Trafficking Review)
Elene Lam, Annalee Lepp
#migrantsexworkers, #racialprofiling, #trafficking, #organising
– – – - The impacts of intersecting stigmas on health and housing experiences of queer women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (Journal of Homosexuality)
Tara Lyons, Andrea Krüsi, Edna Edgar, Sylvia Machat, Thomas Kerr, Kate Shannon
#queer, #stigma, #gender, #housing, #healthcare, #substanceuse
– – – - Gender, victimization, and commercial sex: A comparative study (Atlantis Journal)
Tamara O’Doherty, Ian Waters
#gender, #victimization, #justice, #labour
– – – - Barriers and facilitators to hepatitis B vaccination among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: Implications for integrated HIV, STI, and viral hepatitis services (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
Anuisa Ranjan, Kate Shannon, Hill Chettiar, Melissa Braschel, Lianping Ti, Shira Goldenberg
#hepatitisB, #health, #migrantsexworkers, #immigration
- Experiences of Violence and Head Injury among Women and Transgender Women Sex Workers (Sexuality Research and Social Policy)
Rebakah M. Baumann, Sarah Hamilton-Wright, Dana Lee Riley, Karen Brown, Cindy Hunt, Alicja Michalak, Flora I. Matheson
#violence, #transsexworkers, #qualitative
2018
- The loss of Boystown and transition to online sex work: Strategies and barriers to increase safety among men sex workers and clients of men (American Journal of Men’s Health)
Elena Argento, Matthew Taylor, Jody Jollimore, Chrissy Taylor, James Jennex, Andrea Krüsi, Kate Shannon
#malesexworkers, internet, online sex work, safety
– – – - Shared precarities and maternal subjectivities: Navigating motherhood and child custody loss among North American women in street-based sex work (Shared Precarities)
Susan Dewey, Treena Orchard, Kyria Brown
#childcustody, #subjectivity, #motherhood
– – – - Increased burden of suicidality among young street-involved sex workers who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada [Short Report] (Journal of Public Health)
Brittany Barker, Scott E. Hadland, Huiru Dong, Kate Shannon, Thomas Kerr, Kora DeBeck
#substanceuse, #street-involved
– – – - Sex work and three dimensions of self-esteem: Self-worth, authenticity and self-efficacy (Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Samantha Magnus, Jackson Flagg, Renay Maurice
#stigma, #work
– – – - “The prostitution problem”: Claims, evidence, and policy outcomes (Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey, Doug Magnusson
#gender, #inequality, #policy
– – – - Race, space, and prostitution: The making of settler colonial Canada (Canadian Journal of Women and the Law)
Robyn Bourgeois
#settlercolonialism, #indigenouspeople, #gender, #race
– – – - Strategies and challenges in preventing violence against Canadian indoor sex workers (American Journal of Public Health)
Vicky Bungay, Adrian Guta
#violence, #work
– – – - Escort clients’ sexual scripts and constructions of intimacy in commodified sexual relationships (Symbolic Interaction)
Zoey Jones, Stacey Hannem
#intimacy, #clients
– – – - Pipelines, prostitution and indigenous women: A critical analysis of contemporary discourse (Canadian Woman Studies)
Lana Ray
#violence, #settlercolonialism, indigenouspeople
– – – - Loss Must be Marked and it Cannot be Represented: Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End
Becki L. Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton
#historical, #vancouver, #memorial
– – – - Owning risk: Sex worker subjectivities and the reimagining of vulnerability and victimhood (British Journal of Criminology)
Marcus A. Sibley
#risk, #victimization, #billC-36, #subjectivity
– – – - “We are not criminals”: Sex work clients in Canada and the constitution of risk knowledge (Canadian Journal of Law and Society)
Andrea Sterline, Emily van der Meulen
#clients, #risk, #internet, #criminalization
– – – - Challenging dominant portrayals of the trans sex worker: On gender, violence, and protection (Manitoba Law Journal)
Leon Laidlaw
#transsexworkers, #gender, #intersectionality, #violence, #transphobia, #policing, #victimization, #resistance, #oppression, #stigma
– – – - Workplace violence among female sex workers who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: Does client-targeted policing increase safety? (Journal of Public Health Policy)
Amy Prangnell, Kate Shannon, Ekaterina Nosova, Kora DeBeck, M-J Milloy, Thomas Kerr, Kanna Hayashi
#violence, #policing, #substanceuse, #femalesexworkers
– – – - Impact of sex work on risk behaviours and their association with HIV positivity among people who inject drugs in Eastern Central Canada: Cross-sectional results from an open cohort study (BMJ Open)
Laurence Campeau, Karine Blouin, Pascale Leclerc, Michel Alary, Carole Morissette, Caty Blanchette, Bouchra Serhir, Elise Roy
#HIV, #substanceuse, #health
– – – - “I walked into the industry for survival and came out of a closet”: How gender and sexual identities shape sex work experiences among men, two spirit, and trans people in Vancouver (Men and Masculinities)
Premala Matthen, Tara Lyons, Matthew Taylor, James Jennex, Solanna Anderson, Jody Jollimore, Kate Shannon
#queer, #trans, #malesexworkers, #migration, #identity, #stigma, #gender
2017
- Violence, trauma and living with HIV: Longitudinal predictors of initiating crystal methamphetamine injection among sex workers (Drug and Alcohol Dependence)
Elena Argento, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Shira Goldenberg, Melissa Braschel, Julio Montaner, Kate Shannon
#substanceuse, #violence, #HIV, #risk, #health
– – – - Would you think about doing sex for money? Structure and agency in deciding to sell sex in Canada (Work, Employment and Society)
Cecilia Benoit, Nadia Ouellet, Mikael Jansson, Samantha Magnus, Michaela Smith
#agency, #work
– – – - “Well, it should be changed for one, because it’s our bodies”: Sex workers’ views on Canada’s punitive approach towards sex work (Social Sciences)
Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Michaela Smith, Jackson Flagg
#criminalization, #decriminalization, #regulation
– – – - Prostitution stigma and its effect on the working conditions, personal lives, and health of sex workers (The Journal of Sex Research)
Cecilia Benoit, S. Mikael Jansson, Michaela Smith, Jackson Flagg
#stigma, #workingconditions, #health
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Sex workers as peer health advocates: Community empowerment and transformative learning through a Canadian program (International Journal for Equity in Health)Cecilia Benoit, Lynne Belle-Isle, Michaela Smith, Rachel Phillips, Leah Shumka, Chris Atchison, Mikael Jansson, Charlotte Loppie, Jackson Flagg#health, #mobilization, #community, #agency
– – – - Acceptance of prostitution and its social determinants in Canada (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology)
Liqun Cao, Ruibin Lu, Xiaohan Mei
#publicopinion, #religiosity, #deviance, #HIV, #substanceuse
– – – - A question of respect: A qualitative text analysis of the Canadian Parliamentary Committee Hearings on The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (Canadian Journal of Political Science)
Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Mary Burns, Kerry Porth
#billC-36, #law, #policy
– – – - A content analysis of health and safety communications among internet-based sex work advertisements: Important information for public health (Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Julle Kille, Vicky Bungay, John Oliffe, Chris Atchison
#health, #advertisements, #internet
– – – - Criminalizing sex work clients and rushed negotiations among sex workers who use drugs in a Canadian setting (Journal of Urban Health)
Adina Landsberg, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi, Kora DeBeck, M-J Milloy, Ekaterina Nosova, Thomas Kerr, Kanna Hayashi
#criminalization, #substanceuse, #policing
– – – - “If I’m gonna hack capitalism”: Racialized and Indigenous Canadian sex workers’ experiences within the neo-liberal market economy (Women’s Studies International Forum)
Menaka Raguparan
#racializedsexworkers, #indigenouspeople, #neoliberalism
– – – - Food insecurity increases HIV risk among young sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada (AIDS and Behavior)
Daniella Barreto, Kate Shannon, Chrissy Taylor, Sabina Dobrer, Jessica St. Jean, Shira M. Goldenberg, Putu Duff, Kathleen N. Deering
#HIV, #foodinsecurity, #health
– – – - “Business before pleasure”: The golden rule of sex work, payment schedules and gendered experiences of violence (Culture, Health & Sexuality)
Elizabeth Manning, Vicky Bungay
#gender, #violence, #finances
– – – - The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing (Sexualities)
Tara Lyons, Andrea Krüsi, Leslie Pierre, Will Small, Kate Shannon
#transsexworkers, #displacement, #policing, #violence
– – – - The initial test of constitutional validity: Identifying the legislative objectives of Canada’s new prostitution laws (University of British Columbia Law Review)
Debra M. Haak
#law, #constitution
– – – - “We all have one”: Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work (Work, Employment and Society)
Julie Ham, Fairleigh Gilmour
#exiting, #labour
– – – - Perfectly legal, but still bad: Lessons for sex work from the decriminalization of abortion (University of New Brunswick Law Journal)
Jula Hughes
#decriminalization, #historical, #stigma, #maritimes
– – – - A sex work research symposium: Examining positionality in documenting sex work and sex workers’ rights (Social Sciences)
Megan Lowthers, Magdalena Sabat, Elya M. Durisin, Kamala Kempadoo
#conference, #methodology, #reflexivity, #economies, #technology
2016
- “You just have to be smart”: Spatial practices and subjectivity among women in sex work in London, Ontario (Gender, Place & Culture)
Treena Orchard, Jennifer Vale, Susan Macphail, Cass Wender, Tor Oiamo
#gender, #subjectivity, #resilience
– – – - The dark side of public participation: Participative processes that legitimize elected officials’ values (Canadian Public Administration)
Nancy Bouchard
#billC-36, #policy, #activism
– – – - The Birth of Butterfly: Bringing Migrant Sex Workers’ Voices into the Sex Workers’ Rights Movement (Research for Sex Work)
Elene Lam
#migrantsexworkers, #race, #activism, #Toronto
– – – - Inspection, policing, and racism: How municipal by-laws endanger the lives of Chinese sex workers in Toronto (Canadian Review of Social Policy)
Elene Lam
#migrantsexworkers, #race, #publicpolicy, #Toronto
– – – - Tagging for activist ends and strategic ephemerality: Creating the Sex Work Database as an activist digital archive (Feminist Media Studies)
Shana Ferris, Danielle Allard
#media, #activism
– – – - Social cohesion among sex workers and client condom refusal in a Canadian setting: Implications for structural and community-led interventions (AIDS and Behavior)
Elena Argento, Putu Duff, Brittany Bingham, Jules Chapman, Paul Nguyen, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Kate Shannon
#Health, #HIV
– – – - Lack of confidence in police creates a “Blue Ceiling” for sex workers’ safety (Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques)
Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Samantha Magnus, Nadia Ouellet, Chris Atchison, Lauren Casey, Rachel Phillips, Bill Reimer, Dan Reist, Frances M. Shaver
#policing, #safety
– – – - Condoms and sexual health educatino as evidence: Impact of criminalization of in-call venues and managers on migrant sex workers access to HIV/STI prevention in a Canadian setting (BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Anderson, K. Shannon, J. Li, Y. Lee, J. Chettiar, S. Goldenberg
#health, #HIV, #migrantsexworkers
– – – - The social dynamics of safe sex practices among Canadian sex industry clients (Sociology of Health and Illness)
Chris Atchison, Patrick John Burnett
#health, #risk, #clients
– – – - Unmet health care needs among sex workers in five census metropolitan areas of Canada (Canadian Journal of Public Health)
Cecilia Benoit, Nadia Ouellet, Mikael Jansson
#health, #healthcare
– – – - Third-world realities in a first-world setting: A study of the HIV/AIDS-related conditions and risk behaviors of sex trade workers in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS)
Yelena Bird, Mark Lemstra, Marla Rogers, John Moraros
#risk, #health, #HIV, #indigenouspeople
– – – - Taint: An examination of the lived experiences of stigma and its lingering effects for eight sex industry experts (Culture, Health and Sexuality)
Raven Bowen, Vicky Bungay
#stigma, #resistance
– – – - Addressing underrepresentation in sex work research: Reflections on designing a purposeful sampling strategy (Qualitative Health Research)
Vicky Bungay, John Oliffe, Chris Atchison
#inequality, #diversity, #discrimination, #methodology
– – – - Disability and sex work: Developing affinities through decriminalization (Disability & Society)
Kelly Fritsch, Robert Heynen, Amy Nicole Ross, Emily van der Meulen
#decriminalization, #disability, #policy
– – – - Playing the victim: A critical analysis of Canada’s Bill C-36 from an international human rights perspective (Melbourne Journal of International Law)
Phoebe J. Galbally
#criminalization, #humanrights, #law, #billC-36
– – – - Structural barriers to antiretroviral therapy among sex workers living with HIV: Findings of a longitudinal study in Vancouver, Canada (AIDS and Behavior)
Shira M. Goldenberg, Julia Montaner, Putu Duff, Paul Nguyen, Sabina Dobrer, Silvia Guillemi, Kate Shannon
#HIV, #health
– – – - “I’m not a pimp, but I play one on TV”: The moral career and identity negotiations of third parties in the sex industry (Deviant Behavior)
Stacey Hannem, Chris Bruckert
#thirdparties, #identity, #stigma, #representation
– – – - Doing it in public: Dilemmas of images, voice, and constructing publics in public sociology on sex work (Symbolic Interaction)
Stacey Hannem, Alex Tigchelaar
#methodology, #representation
– – – - “They won’t change it back in their heads that we’re trash”: The intersection of sex work-related stigma and evolving policing strategies (Sociology of Health & Illness)
Andrea Krüsi, Thomas Kerr, Christina Taylor, Tim Rhodes, Kate Shannon
#stigma, #policing
– – – - Universal coverage without universal access: Institutional barriers to health care among women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (Plus ONE)
Eugenia Socías, Jean Shoveller, Chili Bean, Paul Nguyen, Julio Montaner, Kate Shannon
#health, #healthcare
– – – - Judging women’s sexual agency: Contemporary sex wars in the legal terrain of prostitution and polygamy (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society)
Melanie Heath, Jessica Braimoh, Julie Gouweloos
#gender, #inequality, #law
– – – - How do you like me now? Exploring subjectivities and home/field boundaries in research with women in sex work (Anthropologica)
Treena Orchard, Susan Dewey
#methodology, #subjectivity
– – – - The constitutionality of the new sex work law (Alberta Law Review)
Hamish Stewart
#law, #constitution, #billc-36, #bedford
– – – - The relationship between violence and engagement in drug dealing and sex work among street-involved youth (Qualitative Research)
Kanna Hayashi, Ben Daly-Grafstein, Huiru Dong, Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr, Kora DeBeck
#street-involved, #drugdealing, #violence, #youth, #substanceuse
– – – - How do you like me now?: Exploring subjectivities and home/field boundaries in research with women in sex work (Anthropologica)
Treena Orchard, Susan Dewey
#subjectivity, #anthropology, #methods
2015
- Reducing stigma in healthcare and law enforcement: A novel approach to service provision for street level sex workers (International Journal for Equity in Health)
Kate Bodkin, Alannah Delahunty-Pike, Tim O’Shea
#health, #healthcare, #stigma, #policing
– – – - The Influence of Time to Negotiate on Control in Sex Worker-Client Interactions (Research for Sex Work)
Chris Atchison, Cecilia Benoit, Patrick Burnett, Mikael Jansson, Mary Clare Kennedy, Nadia Ouellet, and Dalia Vukmirovich
#work, #agency, #safety, #criminalization - Escaping the straitjacket: Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford and the doctrine of Stare Decisis (Saskatchewan Law Review)
Michael Adams
#law, #bedford
– – – - Squaring up: Experiences of transition from off-street sex work to square work and duality—concurrent involvement in both—in Vancouver, BC (Canadian Sociological Association)
Raven R. Bowen
#exiting
– – – - Stigma, sex work, and substance use: A comparative analysis (Sociology of Health and Illness)
Cecilia Benoit, Bill McCarthy, Mikael Jansson
#stigma, #gender, #substanceuse, #discrimination
– – – - Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act: Misogynistic law making in action (Canadian Journal of Law and Society)
Chris Bruckert
#criminalization, #gender, #law, #billC-36
– – – - The criminalization of sexual commerce in Canada: Context and concepts for critical analysis (The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality)
Jacqueline M. Davies
#law, #intersectionality, #exploitation, #settlercolonialism
– – – - Successes and gaps in uptake of regular, voluntary HIV testing for hidden street- and off-street sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (AIDS Care)
K.N. Deering, J.S. Montaner, J. Chettiar, J. Jia, G. Ogilvie, C. Buchner, C. Feng, . S.A. Strathdee, K. Shannon
#HIV, #health
– – – - “Johns” in the spotlight: Anti-prostitution efforts and the surveillance of clients (Canadian Journal of Law and Society)
Ummni Khan
#clients, #surveillance, #law, #regulation
– – – - Sexual relationship power and intimate partner violence among sex workers with non-commercial intimate partners in a Canadian setting (AIDS Care)
Katherine A. Muldoon, Kathleen N. Deering, Cindy X. Feng, Jean A. Shoveller, Kate Shannon
#violence, #relationships
– – – - Structural determinants of inconsistent condom use with clients among migrant sex workers: Findings of longitudinal research in an urban Canadian setting (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Julie Sou, Kate Shannon, Jane Li, Paul Nguyen, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Jean Shoveller, Shira M. Goldenberg
#migrantsexworkers, #health
– – – - “It depends on who you are, what you are”: ‘Community safety’ and sex workers’ experience with surveillance (Surveillance & Society)
Jordana Wright, Robert Heynen, Emily van der Meulen
#surveillance, #risk, #publicspace, #safety
– – – - Negotiating violence in the context of transphobia and criminalization: The experiences of trans sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (Qualitative Health Research)
Tara Lyons, Andrea Krüsi, Leslie Pierre, Thomas Kerr, Will Small, Kate Shannon
#violence, #transphobia, #criminalization, #transsexworkers, #policing
– – – - Expert-tease: Advocacy, ideology and experience in Bedford and Bill C-36 (Canadian Journal of Law and Society)
Sonia Lawrence
#billC-36, #bedford, #law, #activism, #policy
– – – - Violence prevention and municipal licensing of indoor sex work venues in the Greater Vancouver Area: Narratives of migrant sex workers, managers and business owners (Culture, Health & Sexuality)
Solanna Anderson, Jessica Xi Jia, Vivian Liu, Jill Chattier, Andrea Krüsi, Sarah Allan, Lisa Maher, Kate Shannon
#violence, #migrantsexworkers, #thirdparties, #regulation
– – – - Work environments and HIV prevention: A qualitative review and meta-synthesis of sex worker narratives (BMC Public Health)
Shira M. Goldenberg, Putu Duff, Andrea Krüsi
#health, #HIV, #work
– – – - Governing sex work: an agonistic policy community and its relational dynamics (Critical Policy Studies)
Genevieve Fuji Johnson
#governance, #policy, #harmreduction
Book Chapters
2022
- Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared: Doing Research in Collaboration with Sex Workers and Sex Worker Organizations
in Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research (Routledge)
Ryan Conrad & Emma McKenna
#researchethics, #ethics, #covid19
– – – - An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis
in Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (UBC Press)
Emma McKenna
#feminism, #sexwars, #80s, #history, #activism, #affect
– – – - Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminism, Pornography, and the Political Unity of Emotion
in Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (UBC Press)
Eryk Marting
#feminism, #sexwars, #pornography #80s, #history, #activism, #affect
2019
- Micromanaging the Massage Parlour: How Municipal Bylaws Organize and Shape the Lives of Asian Sex Workers
in Erotic Subjects and Outlaws: Sketching the Borders of Sexual Citizenship (Brill Press)
Elene Lam
#migrantsexworkers, #massageparlours, #publicpolicy
– – – - Understanding the Work in Sex Work: Canadian Contexts
in Working Women in Canada: An Intersectional Approach (UBC Press)
Kara Gillies, Elene Lam, Tuulia Law, Rai Reece, Andrea Sterling, and Emily van der Meulen
#femalesexworkers, #work
2018
- Organizing on the Corner: Trans Women of Colour and Sex Worker Activism in Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s
in Marvellous Grounds: Queer of Colour Histories of Toronto (Between the Lines Press)
Syrus Marcus Ware, Monica Forrester, and Chanelle Gallant
#transsexworkers, #racializedsexworkers, #activism, #Toronto
– – – - Migrant Sex Work Justice: A Justice-Based Approach to the Anti-Trafficking Movement
in Marvellous Grounds: Queer of Colour Histories of Toronto (Between the Lines Press)
Tings Chak, Chanelle Gallant, Elen Lam, and Kate Zen
#migrantsexworkers, #activism, #Toronto
2017
- Safe sex work and the city: Canadian sex worker activists re-imagine real/virtual cityscapes
in We Still Demand: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles (UBC Press)
Shawna Ferris
#activism, #safety, #criminalization, #billC-36
– – – - “Collateral Damage”: Anti-trafficking campaigns, border security, and sex workers’ rights struggles
in We Still Demand: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles (UBC Press)
Annalee Lepp
#trafficking , #migrantsexworkers, #criminalization, #humanrights
– – – - Managing Conflict: An Examination of Three-Way Alliances in Canadian Escort and Massage Businesses
in Third Party Sex Work and Pimps in the Age of Anti-trafficking (Springer)
Lauren Casey et al.
#thirdparties, #agency, #work, #massage
2015
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- From Research ‘On’ to Research ‘With’: Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers
in The Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice (Sage)
Emily van der Meulen
#methodology, #agency
– – – - Canada’s Public Health Experiment [Chapter 11]
in Getting Screwed: Sex workers and the law (University Press of New England)
Alison Bass
#law, #health
– – – - Intuiting illegality in sex work [Chapter 13]
in The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration (Routledge)
Julie Ham
#law, #crime, #trafficking
– – – - Continuing the policy debate: Canadian prostitution legislation and the implications for sex workers
in Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work (Demeter Press)
S. Verlyn Bateman
#policy, #mothers
- From Research ‘On’ to Research ‘With’: Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers
Dissertations & Theses
2020
- Harms of criminalization of sex work: How end-demand legislation and immigration policy shape labour, health, and rights among im/migrant and indoor sex workers in Canada
Bronwyn McBride
PhD thesis, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia
#immigration, #migrantsexworkers, #health, #labour, #criminalization
2019
- Predictors of Violence, Traumatic Stress, and Burnout in Sex Work
Jonathan Alschech
PhD thesis, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
#violence, #trauma, #workingconditions, #clients
– – – - Performing Agency: A Photovoice Project with Women Who Engage in Sex Work
Chantelle Fitton
MSc Thesis, Faculty of Nursing, University of Lethbridge
#Alberta, #resilience, #agency
– – – - Indigenous Women and Youth in the Sex Trade: A Systematic Review of Culturally Relevant Support Systems for Exiting the Trade
Surman Kang
MA thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Windsor
#youth, #indigenouspeople
– – – - Doing what ‘Works Best’: Exploring the narratives of mothers who work as strippers
Michelle Lesley Annett
M.A. Thesis, Critical Sociology, Brock University
#mothers, #motherhood, #stripping, #exoticdancing, #community, #stigma, #precarity
– – – - The labour of paying for education: An exploration of student sex work in Canada
Emily Hammond
M.A. Thesis, Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University
#labour, #postsecondary, #students
– – – -
The Labour Feminism Takes: Tracing Intersectional Politics in 1980s Canadian Feminist PeriodicalsEmma McKennaPh.D. Dissertation, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University#feministpoliticaleconomy, #feministsexwars, #migrantdomesticlabour, #historical
– – – - Mobilisations contre la loi C-36 («loi sur la protections des collectivités et des personnes exploitées»): Stigmatisation et soutien envers les travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe à Montréal.
Maxime Vallée
M.A. Thesis, Sociology, University of Quebec at Montreal
#billC-36, #stigma, #decriminalization
2018
- Selling what no one can buy
Carolyn Rebecca Mouland
M.L. Thesis, Law, University of Toronto
#billC-36, #bedford, #law, #policy
– – – - The role of child custody loss to child protective services in shaping health and wellbeing among women who do sex work in Vancouver, Canada
Kathleen S. Kenny
Ph.D. Dissertation, Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
#childcustody, #health, #motherhood, #indigenouspeople
– – – - La parole aux travailleurs du sexe : comprendre leurs perceptions des risques entourant le métier et les stratégies mises en place pour les gérer
Maxim Gaudette
M.A. thesis, Criminology, University of Ottawa
#malesexworkers, #risk, #health
– – – - Intelligible variability: Narratives of male sex work in London Ontario Canada
Nathan Dawthorne
Ph.D. Thesis, Anthropology, The University of Western Ontario
#malesexworkers, #masculinity, #stigma, #identity, #intersectionality, #gender, #policy
– – – - Rights and rescue: Ethical world making in the anti-trafficking and sex worker rights movement in Canada
Nicole D. McFadyen
Ph.D. Dissertation, Social Anthropology, York University
#trafficking, #activism, #migrantsexworkers, #humanrights
2017
- “Playing two people”: Exploring trans women’s experiences in sex work
Leon Laidlaw
M.A. Thesis, Criminology, University of Ottawa
#transsexworkers, #transphobia, #discrimination, #work, #criminalization, #health, #intersectionality, #stigma, #violence, #gender
– – – - An exploration of the counselling experiences of women who work in the indoor sex industry
Camila Vélez
M.Ed. Thesis, Counselling Psychology, University of Ottawa
#mentalhealth, #femalesexworkers
– – – - Protection for whom and from what? Canadian sex work legislation and competing narratives of structure and agency
Ashley Wilson
M.A. Thesis, Public Issues Anthropology, The University of Guelph
#billC-36, #agency
– – – - Stigmatized in stilettos: An ethnographic study of stigma in exotic dancers’ lives
Jacenta Bahri
Ph.D. Thesis, Anthropology, University of Manitoba
#exoticdancers, #stigma, #relationships, #finances, #work, #stripclubs
– – – - Ottawa street-based sex workers and the criminal justice system: Interactions under the new legal regime
Yadgar Karim
M.A. Thesis, Criminology, University of Ottawa
#bedford, #billC-36, #risk, #safety, #stigma
– – – - Canada’s relationship with women migrant sex workers: Producing ‘Vulnerable Migrant Workers’ through “Protecting Workers from Abuse and Exploitation”
Rachelle Daley
M.A. Thesis, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
#migrantsexworkers, #violence, #regulation, #policy
– – – - Visioning legalized consensual adult sex work in Canada
Laurie Hayman
M.L., Law, University of Western Ontario
#law, #trafficking, #legalization
2016
- Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act: Safety implications and the stigmatization of sex workers
Shelby Aggiss-Norton
B.A. Honours Thesis, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
#billC-36, #stigma, #safety
– – – - Managing the “party”: Third parties and the organization of labour in Ontario strip clubs
Tuulia Law
PhD Thesis, Criminology, University of Ottawa
#thirdparties, #work, #stripclubs, #safety, #risk, #relationships
– – – - Governmentality gone wild: How the separation of sex workers from “communities” contributes to violence against sex workers
Megan Danielle Lonergan
M.A. Thesis, Gender Studies, Queen’s University
#violence, #billC-36, #media, #criminalization
– – – - HIV/STI prevention, unmet health needs, and work stress among im/migrant sex workers in Metro Vancouver
Julie Chong-Yee Sou
M.Sc. Thesis, Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia
#health, #HIV, #mentalhealth, #work, #migrantsexworkers
– – – - An examination of the impacts of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act on community-based organizations
Daniel Hiatt
M.A. Thesis, Public Policy, University of Regina
#billC-36, #activism, #communityorganizations
– – – - A pastoral approach to juvenile prostitution in Canada
Deborah Rapport
MTh., Theology, University of Toronto
#religious, #youth, #stigma, #resiliency
2015
- Communications in sex work: A content analysis of online sex work advertisements among men, women and transgender people in Vancouver
Julie Ann Kille
M.Sc. Thesis, Nursing, The University of British Columbia
#onlinesexwork, #internet, #advertising, #malesexworkers, #femalesexworkers, #transsexworkers
– – – - Access to health care among women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: Universal health coverage in a criminalized sex work environment
María Eugenia Socías
M.Sc. Thesis, Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of British Columbia
#health, #healthcare, #femalesexworkers
– – – - Sex work and the city: Creating municipal licensing regimes for brothels
Maria K. Powell
M.L. Thesis, Law, Dalhousie University
#regulation, #brothels
– – – - Affecting the frame: Risk, vulnerability, and sex worker subjectivities
Marcus A. Sibley
M.A. Thesis, Legal Studies, Carleton University
#risk, #subjectivity, #bedford, #billC-36
– – – - “It’s happening here!” Anti-trafficking policy in the City of Ottawa – A Critical Analysis
Courtney Lockhart
M.A. Thesis, Political Science, Carleton University
#trafficking, #policing, #policy
– – – - An examination of the prostitution debate in action: “Unpacking” the discourses, convergences, and divergences in Bedford
Brittany Ruthven
M.A. Thesis, Criminology, University of Ottawa
#bedford, #law, #risk
– – – - “I’m not looking for Mr. Right, just Mr. Right Now”: Men clients of men escorts
Emily Symons
M.A. Thesis, Sociology, Carleton University
#clients, #risk, #stigma, #finances #malesexworkers
– – – - Identities do not belong in a box: Understanding identity construction, negotiation & communication for escorts and escort agency owners
Cleo Pyke
Major Research Paper, M.A. Professional Communication, Ryerson University
#identity, #thirdparties
– – – - Blurred lines: Triangular power relations between managers, sex workers, and clients in Canadian escort and massage businesses
Lauren Casey
Ph.D. Dissertation, Social Dimensions of Health, University of Victoria
#thirdparties, #clients, #work, #criminalization, #policing
– – – - Victimization in the Canadian off-street sex industry
Tamara O’Doherty
Ph.D. Dissertation, Criminology, Simon Fraser University
#violence, #risk, #criminalization, #victimization, #safety, #stigma
Reports
2022
- Stronger Together: Solidarity Organizing and Exploitation Prevention
Andrew Sorfleet
Triple-X Workers
#PCEPA, #criminalization, #law, #policy, #unions, #humanrights
2020
- On The Move: A Needs Assessment of Guys in the Sex Industry Working in Québec-Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto
Josh Karam, Ryan Conrad
MAX Ottawa
#malesexworkers, #health, #policy, #stigma, #mentalhealth, #ontario, #quebec, #needsassessment
– – –
- How are Asian and migrant workers in spas, holistic centres, massage parlours and the sex industry affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?
Elene Lam
Butterfly
#migrantsexworkers, #covid19, #socialassistance, #immigration, #criminalization
2019
- Submission to World Health Organization open call for feedback to develop a population-representative sexual health survey instrument
Andrew Sorfleet
Triple-X Workers’ Solidarity Association of British Columbia
#HIV, #STIs, #research, #methodology, #public health
– – – - The perils of “protection”: Sex workers’ experiences of law enforcement in Ontario
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
#criminalization, #victimization, #billC-36, #policing
2018
- Housing, shelter, and safety: Needs of street-level/survival sex workers in Ottawa
Samantha McAleese, Lynette, Schick, Fran Klodawsky, Elizabeth Hay, Jen, Mika, Christine, Corinne
The Steering Committee for the ‘House, Shelter, and Safety: Needs of Sex Workers in Ottawa’ Project
#safety, #streetsexwork, #street-involved,#stigma
– – – - Behind the Rescue: How Anti-Trafficking Investigations and Policies Harm Migrant Sex Workers
Elene Lam
Butterfly
#migrantsexworkers, #policing, #immigration, #criminalization
2017
- Community Empowerment & Transformative Learning among Sex Workers
Cecilia Benoit, Lynne Belle-Islea, Michaela Smith, Rachel Phillips, Leah Shumka, Chris Atchison, Mikael Jansson, Charlotte Loppie
Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research Bulletin
#HIV, #health, #stigma, #agency
– – – - Challenging trafficking in Canada: Policy brief
Eds. Kamala Kempadoo, Nicole McFadyen, Phillip Pilon, Andrea Sterling, Alex Mackenzie
Centre for Feminist Research York University
#trafficking, #policy
2016
- HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Sex Work in Canada 2016
Triple-X Workers Solidarity Association & Dalla Lana School of Public Health
#PrEP, #health, #HIV
– – – - Evaluating Canada’s sex work laws: The case for repeal
Brenda Belak, Darcie Bennett
PIVOT Legal Society
#billC-36, #criminalization, #law, #policy, #humanrights
– – – - Let’s Talk About Sex Work
Stacey Hannem for REAL
#policy, #humanrights, #health, #safety, #stigma, #thirdparty, #criminalization
– – – - Recommendations from the Off-Street Sex Industry in Vancouver
The SPACES team
The University of British Columbia School of Nursing
#stigma, #safety, #health, #sexualhealth, #mentalhealth, #programming, #law, #legalreform
– – – - Prostitution Offences in Canada: Statistical trends
Cristine Rotenberg
Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
#criminalization, billc-36, billc-49, #quantitativedata, #law, #policy
2015
- Science fact or science fiction: Are all sex workers Victimized?
Cecilia Benoit
CIHR Institute of Gender and Health Bulletin
#sexindustry, #violence, #agency, #health
– – – - Sex work in Canada
Cecilia Benoit, Leah Shumka
#sexindustry
Key Legal Cases
On September 28, 2010, Ontario Superior Court Justice Himel ruled (Bedford v. Canada, 2010 ONSC 4264) that key sections of Canada’s three principle prostitution laws (bawdy-house provision, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public) contravened section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and were therefore unconstitutional. Appealed by the Attorneys General of Canada and Ontario, the ruling was partially overturned some 18 months later, on March 26, 2012, by the Ontario Court of Appeal (Canada (AG) v Bedford , [2012] ONCA 186. The appeal court justices accepted that Criminal Code (CC) s 212, was “overbroad and its effects are grossly disproportionate to its objectives” and sought to remedy this by “reading in” the words “in circumstances of exploitation”; they accepted that the bawdy-house law (s 210) was grossly disproportionate and that the word prostitution should be removed from the s 197(1) definition of bawdy-house (as it applies to s 210). However the justices (in a 3-2 split decision) ruled that the law prohibiting communicating in public for the purposes of prostitution (s 213.1) was grossly disproportionate to the legislators’ intent.
On December 20, 2013 the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) (Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford [2013] 3 SCR 1101) reversed the Appeal court decision ruling that all three of the challenged laws were unconstitutional on the basis that they contravene sex workers’ Charter safety and security rights. The decision was stayed for one year to give law makers the opportunity to introduce new laws should they choose to do so. The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) came into effect on December 6, 2014.
Between the Ontario Superior Court and Supreme Court of Canada decisions the Conservative government of Stephen Harper passed an omnibus crime bill, the Safe Streets and Communities Act, in 2012. This act legislated changes to numerous other acts including the Immigration Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The change to section 30 of the IRPA included an amendment “to protect foreign nationals who are at risk of being subjected to humiliating or degrading treatment, including sexual exploitation.” Months later this broad language was operationalized through instructions from then-Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada staff that explicitly forbid the issuing of work visas to migrant workers involved in any commercial sex industries as well as the banning of migrant workers on open work visas from working in any commercial sex industries. While PCEPA uses the rhetoric of trafficking and exploitation to criminalize all forms of commercial sex, the changes to IRPA and the criminalization of migrant sex workers specifically predates its passing by more than two years.
Beginning in 2016, the newly elected federal government introduced various bills that would repeal the provision criminalizing anal intercourse as part of the Liberal Government’s apology for past state-persecution of gays and lesbians. This included Bill C-32, Bill C-39, and ultimately the omnibus crime Bill C-75. Due to the intervention of gay and lesbian historians, the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights unanimously amended C-75 to include the repeal of both vagrancy and the bawdy-house laws. Bill C-75 received royal assent on June 21, 2019 officially ending the use of vagrancy and bawdy-house laws to arrest and charge sex workers and queer bathhouse/party goers alike.
Sex workers once again turned to the courts to engage in strategic litigation in October 2022. Lawyers for the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform argued in front of the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto (CASWLR v. Canada) that Criminal Code sections 213 [communicating in public], 268.1(1) [purchasing sexual services], 286.2(1) [material benefit], 286.3(1) [procuring], and 286.4 [advertising] contravened sex workers’ rights. In particular, they argued that these laws are inconsistent with sex workers’ rights as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to life, liberty, and security (s.7), equality and non-discrimination (s.15). freedom of expression (s.2b), and freedom of association (s. 2d). Disappointingly, on September 18, 2023, Justice Goldstein of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed the arguments put forth by sex workers and ruled that “PCEPA [The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act] was an explicit response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Bedford (SCC). I find that it is constitutional.” (2023 ONSC 5197, at 10).
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