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TRANSITions - Navigating Border, Work, Law and Justice
November 26, 2013
A community forum on sex work issues, organized by FIRST, a Vancouver-based national feminist advocacy group working in support of the human and labour rights of sex workers and for the decriminalization of prostitution.
Topics and Speakers
BORDERS:
Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking
Julie Ham and Sharon Pickering, Monash University, Australia
WORK:
Sex work/square work: Exploring the dichotomy
Raven Bowen, Simon Fraser University
LAW & JUSTICE:
“All my relations?” Sex work and self-determination
Sarah Hunt, Simon Fraser University
Moderator: Kerry Porth, Pivot Legal Society.
Sponsored by:
UBC School of Nursing, SFU Department of History and the Dean of Arts, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Pivot Legal Society, PACE Society, and SWAN Vancouver.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00
Venue: SFU Harbour Centre
Location: Room 1400, 515 W. Hastings Street Vancouver, BC
Categories: Sexuality
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