Policing Race, Gender and Sex Work: A Sex Work Decrim Panel

Archived webinar
by
Pivot Legal Society

Release Date

2024

Geography

Canada

Language of Resource

English

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

No

Findings/Key points

In May 2024, a group of organizers, scholar-activists, movement lawyers, and community members gathered in so-called Toronto (unceded territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Metis and Wendat First Nations) to discuss the impacts of sex work criminalization on Black sex workers, and the ways in which advocates pushback against the erasure & racialized, gendered policing of sex work through court challenges, organizing, and community care.

Keywords

Advocacy
Decriminalization/legalization
Equity
Legal system/law enforcement