RNC Partnership May Be Over, but SHOP is Busier than Ever

“As long as sex work is criminalized then authorities have a mandate to treat sex workers as criminals. They’re oversurveilled and they’re underprotected.”

December 3, 2020

# sex work

How Sex Workers Take Care of Each Other

During COVID-19 one of the concrete ways we worked to take care of our own sex working community was to help SHOP create a Sex…

Sadie Hamilton and Valerie Webber

June 26, 2020

Sex Work is Not the Same as Sexual Exploitation

As someone who has worked freely as a sex worker and someone who has experienced sexual exploitation, I can say unequivocally: the two are not…

September 30, 2019

Police need to end Operation Northern Spotlight

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local forces are putting workers at risk.

November 2, 2017

Capitalism, feminism, and sex work

In a capitalist society, no one is concerned about how empowering someone's job is --- unless it's sex work.

September 6, 2016

Sex Work: From inside the fishbowl

Stigma in sex work is pervasive and painful for women in all areas of the sex industry. This needs to stop.

August 31, 2016

Rape culture in our city: An open letter to St. John’s

Media coverage of reports of gang rapes in St. John's has directed many to contemplate their moral stance on sex work, instead of their moral…

October 10, 2014