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Mourning the passing of Wendy Babcock

While I don't always miss TO, there is nowhere I would rather be at this moment. My friend, Wendy Babcock, was found dead at her home on Aug. 9; an apparent suicide. Wendy's loss hurts; all death does but this is the second suicide in my circle in the past 13 months. My ex-wife Tricia killed herself last July. Suicide, post-Katrina is New Orleans; most people I have met know one or more people who have taken their own life.

In November 2009, CBC profiled Wendy on the show Connect with Mark Kelley. View the video here.

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Sasha: Bathhouse encounters and Zanzibar photos

Dear Sasha,

I am accustomed to seeing people I know at the tubs and politely ignoring/acknowledging them, but nothing could prepare me for seeing my therapist in such a setting. It was awkward to say the least and made me question the etiquette around such an exchange, bathhouse and beyond. What do you do when you encounter a person in public with whom you have such an intimate yet structured relationship? How do you then continue this relationship comfortably and professionally?

Rub a Dub Doubt

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To the would-be sex work abolitionist, or, 'ain't I a woman'?

In her August, October, and December rabble blog posts, Meghan Murphy asks why sex workers and our allies don't want to engage in "genuine discourse" with her and other abolitionists. It might surprise her, but there is an answer to that question.

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Sex workers' rights organizing

Greg MacDougall interviews sex workers rights advocates at the 2011 Women's World conference. Interview (start 3:45) with Chris Bruckert, Frédérique Chabot and Tuulia Law -- of POWER, Students for Sex Worker Rights, and Sex Professionals of Canada. At Women's Worlds 2011 conference in Ottawa, July 7. http://womensworlds.ca

Pivot Legal Society

Why criminalizing clients won't work

November 14, 2011
| Lawyer Katrina Pacey talks to Paul Ryan about why street-level sex workers would be just as unsafe if laws were introduced to criminalize sex work clients.

12:35 minutes (11.53 MB)
Pivot Legal Society

New Vancouver sex work report

September 17, 2011
| Katrina Pacey talks about what is -- and more importantly, what isn't -- in the new report put out by the City of Vancouver on sex work in the city.

8:17 minutes (7.59 MB)
Pivot Legal Society

Supreme Court to hear feds' sex work appeal

April 6, 2011
| Canada's Supreme Court has allowed the federal government the right to appeal an attempt by Vancouver sex workers to challenge Canada's criminal laws relating to adult prostitution.

11:13 minutes (10.27 MB)
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Missing and murdered women: Produce a report that cannot be ignored

Presentation by Libby Davies (Member of Parliament for Vancouver East) to Commissioner Wally Oppal and others gathered at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Community Engagement Forum, held Jan. 19, 2011

Mr. Oppal, respected elders, family members and members of the community,

I thought hard about how to begin today, having been involved with this tragedy of the missing women since the 1980s, when I was a Vancouver City Councillor.

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