In this week's episode of The Maple's North Untapped podcast, we spoke to PressProgress labour reporting intern Ashlynn Chand about her work covering the challenges faced by sex workers, and what advocacy groups are doing to fight for their rights and protections.
We discuss how "non-competition" agreements create power imbalances between sex workers and digital platforms, how right-wing Evangelical groups are working to deprive workers of their income, and why advocates want to repeal Stephen Harper's Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.
"After a Saturday fire at an SRO for vulnerable women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, some displaced tenants say they’re choosing to sleep outside rather than in an emergency shelter.
It’s an increasingly common pattern in the neighbourhood as an unusually high number of fires in single-room occupancy hotels have displaced over 200 tenants since April."
