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As cities debate how to sustain the nighttime economy while keeping residents safe, Montréal’s past reminds us that the way we govern the night determines who gets to belong in it.
Canada’s criminalization framework continues to undermine sex workers’ safety and exclude their voices from shaping laws that govern their lives.
In Vancouver, converging municipal development agendas and unstable nonprofit funding frameworks have led to the closure of essential services for sex workers.
Long known as a virus confined to rural areas, mpox has reached Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The porn and ride-hailing industries both attract workers seeking autonomy. Neither fully delivers.
Since many Japanese women still find it difficult to explore and discuss their sexual desires with their partners, the services have become popular among all women, not just lesbians.
A case before the Supreme Court of Canada could determine the constitutionality of the country’s prostitution law and statutes that criminalize third parties who benefit financially from the sex trade.
Sex workers have a deep understanding of their needs but development partnerships tend to prioritise scientific knowledge.
Many people at heightened risk for HIV have never been tested. Those who have self-tested for HIV often don’t go on to receive care or change their sexual behavior.
Laws regarding sex work should not be legislated based on personal moral beliefs. They should prioritize the safety of sex workers and their clients.
Escorts, sex workers and other adult entertainers often do not feel they have the power to challenge debanking.
If sex workers have to pay taxes and have all the other burdens of business and employment, then surely their contracts must be honoured as well.
Young motivated employees are pushing the movement for union representation among US workforces. Is it time for management to get on board?
The mass casualty commission report into the Nova Scotia mass murders outlines the perpetrator’s history of sexual abuse toward sex workers and what should be done to prevent it from happening again.
Experts on the history of sexuality in Canada say recent changes to the Expungement Act don’t go far enough, and they urge Canadians to reject attempts to divide marginalized communities.
Some vulnerable populations may have fallen through the cracks despite efforts to improve access to HIV services during the pandemic in Nigeria.
The conflation of sex work and human trafficking fuels support for the continued criminalisation of sex work.
Despite portraying sex workers as agents of social change, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ presents sex workers as worthy victims because they didn’t choose their disreputable fates.
Newmarket’s draconian use of bylaws and licensing to target and displace Asian massage workers risks taking us back to a racist past in Canadian history, where Asians were seen as moral threats.
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Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Cultural Studies; Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Bothell
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Adjunct professor, Carleton University
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Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
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Lecturer in Literature and Film Studies, Keele University
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer at Brunel University, University of Kent
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Loughborough University
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Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle