Harm Reduction as Social Justice: Sex Work

Harm Reduction as Social Justice: Sex Work

This lunch and learn event will engage students, faculty, activists, researchers, and current and former sex workers in a discussion about harm reduction in the Canadian sex work landscape. Topics explored during the panel discussion will include sex work regulation, human rights, disability, colonialism, immigration, drug use, safer sex, activism, and resistance.

Lunch will be served before the panel discussion and there will be a resource table with harm reduction and safer sex supplies and information.

OPENING:
• Joanne Dallaire, Ryerson Elder
• Maggie's Indigenous Drumming Group

SPEAKERS:
• Elene Lam, Founder & Executive Director, Butterfly, Asian & Migrant Sex Worker’s Network
• Lindsay Blewett, Sex Worker Activist
• River Redwood, Sexual Health, Sex Work, & Gay Rights Activist
• Monica Forrester, Program Coordinator, Maggie’s Toronto Indigenous Program

This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. If you have questions or require other accessibility accommodations to ensure your inclusion in this event, please email Alannah Fricker at cssdp@torontomu.ca.

This event is hosted by Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, CSSDP Ryerson, in collaboration with Emily van der Meulen, Criminology; Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair; Kim Bailey, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Office of Social Innovation; and Corinne Hart, Nursing.

Sponsored by Melanie Panitch, the John C. Eaton Chair in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship; the Criminology Course Union; the Department of Criminology; the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts; and Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University.