Advancing a Sex-Work-is-Work Paradigm

Thursday, March 05, 2015, 7-9 p.m.
EN-2040

With the recent passage of Bill C-36, the improperly named Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, Canadian anti-prostitution laws will continue to marginalize, ostracize, and criminalize sex work. Decades of Canadian and international research and advocacy have demonstrated clearly that the criminalization of either the selling or buying of sexual services can lead to dire consequences for sex workers and their communities. This presentation will draw on empirical data, scholarly insights, and sex workers’ own experiences to advance a rights-based perspective and to argue in favour of a reformulation of sex work away from a criminal justice framework and toward conceptualizing sex work as a form of sexual and emotional labour. Sex workers’ voices and recommendations for labour organizing and labour improvements will be highlighted.


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