S3x W0rker Back* Tax Support: Accountant Meghan Harms will be at PACE to help SWers file Back Taxes, and advise on complex tax matters. ✍️Days (sign-up required): Thursday January 23rd + Friday January 24th.

On #TraffickingAwarenessDay, we invite people to examine any misconceptions or ideas they may have about sex WORK vs. sex TRAFFICKING. Sex work is not trafficking, and trafficking is not sex work. Conflating the two doesn't help sex workers OR survivors of trafficking.

Black cop is accused of trafficking his white wife - "The passenger claimed Williams, 63, was transporting Shasholka, 34, against her will, an obvious example of racial profiling and abject discrimination, it says." ca.news.yahoo.com/black-cop-accu…

I’m so disappointed that a whole team of journalists could not see any harm in a police ride-along where they deceived sex workers in the hopes they could get a “rescue” for the cameras. How did no one flag how problematic this is? x.com/SWAN_Vancouver…

This story is part of a series that was made possible through an award from the Janet Austin and the Jack Webster Fdn. Journalists receive up to $25,000 to research, produce and publish a project. ltgov.bc.ca/wp-content/upl…

Janet Austin Jack Webster Fdn You could have interviewed B.C. trafficking experts (Annalee Lepp, @GAATWCanada, Hayli Millar, Tamara O'Doherty) but you travelled for spokespeople to tell you “everywhere you look someone’s being trafficked.” Then you rode in tuk tuk saying Asian women “look like they’re 14.”

天鹅祝您们蛇年吉祥 ，事事顺心，身体健康! SWAN wishes you good luck, success and good health in the Year of the Snake! For Lunar New Year, consider giving a gift to the Asian im/migrant women we support by donating to SWAN's programs and services: swanvancouver.ca/donate/

“Because the community that we support are within the intersections of sex work, race, gender and also potentially precarious status with immigration, or migration status, there are many different challenges they face when accessing health care...” thetyee.ca/News/2025/01/2…

Black people have always been at the forefront of the fight for s*x workers' rights. Black s*x workers' voices deserve to be centered, uplifted and listened to all year long, and should never be left out of s*x worker rights advocacy and protections. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth