November 4, 2020 Update: On March 14, 2019, days after their International Women's Day event, the City of Vancouver Council voted to to provide termination funding for Vancouver Rape Relief. This decision was specifically regarding VRR's explicit exclusion of trans, gender variant, and Two Spirit people from their services and organization as well as their … Continue reading How Vancouver Rape Relief is at Odds with Indigenous Self-Determination
open letters
Update: CATA’s Demands Have Yet to Be Met
Vancouver and District Labour Council, CUPE BC and Chinatown Action Group continue to fail trans women and sex workers (to view this as a note on facebook visit: https://www.facebook.com/TheCoalitionAgainstTransAntagonism/ ) In the afternoon of May 1st, 2018, Organize BC informed CATA about the cancellation of the Evening Panel scheduled to take place this Friday, May 4th, … Continue reading Update: CATA’s Demands Have Yet to Be Met
The Future of the City We Want: Why Sex Work is a Labour Issue
Please see the update to our open letter here: https://noterfsnoswerfs.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/update/ This open letter is written on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples - specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations, in what is colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. A closed letter, sent April 25th, 2018, was authored and emailed privately … Continue reading The Future of the City We Want: Why Sex Work is a Labour Issue
Response to Vancouver Women’s Library
This is a repost of an open letter that was publicly posted by Gays Against Gentrification and written by an anonymous group of people in so-called Vancouver, Canada. We are posting it here to ensure its visibility and longevity as it is a part of local trans and trans sex worker history. *This note is … Continue reading Response to Vancouver Women’s Library
