Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal

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Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal is written by Francine Tremblay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1498593909 (ISBN 10) and 9781498593908 (ISBN 13).

This book is based on a case study about Stella, l’amie de Maimie a Montréal sex workers' rights organization, founded by and for sex workers. It explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry. Weighed down by the old and tenacious whore symbol, the sex workers at Stella had to find a way to navigate the criminality of sex work and sex workers, in order to do advocacy and support work, and create safer spaces for sex workers to engage in such advocacy. This book focuses on sex workers, but the advocacy challenges and strategies it outlines can also apply to the lives of other marginalized groups who are often ignored, pitied, or reviled, but who are seldom seen as fully human.