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Thank you to @Eva_Sita @aceciliacr @CBCHamilton for publishing this story. cbc.ca/news/canada/ha…

I am officially a @CityofHamilton Mayoral Candidate! 🎉 🎊 Thank you so much for my amazingly supportive team! 💕 I am so grateful for you labour. Happy May Day! ✊️ See you at the event tonight! @WAHC @hamiltonlabour #HamOnt #ONPoli #CDNPoli

We wear 💜 to show survivors that it takes a community to end sexual violence and that no one asks for or deserves to experience sexual violence. Will you help us spread the word? Post your 💜 pics with #NoOneAsksForlt and tag @SACHAHamont to purple-fy social media UR Not alone!

My name is Scarlett Gillespie and I'm running for Mayor of the @CityofHamilton. I’m running to fight for a Hamilton that stays affordable, accountable, and livable for the people who call it home. Follow this account and retweet 🏙️ #HamOnt #ONPoli #CDNPoli #Hamilton #YHMVote

@sm_kaylor That is what I mean: my pitch will be about Gwendolyn.

@IsisIntrepid You’re welcome to submit a pitch! Decisions about which pieces are accepted will go out in September

I’m editing an anthology with Working Girls Press about sex workers who’ve helped us get our footing, from locker room advice, to screening tips, to lesser known advocates who introduced us to the labor movement. Read the full call & send your pitch! workinggirlspress.subfolios.com/submit/587/our…

Now look into Sujit Choudhry's past: theguardian.com/us-news/2017/a… berkeleyside.org/2017/04/17/for… facebook.com/share/p/1EPKxT… #HamOnt #ONPoli #CDNPoli #YHMCC

@TheSpec Now look into Sujit Choudhry's past: theguardian.com/us-news/2017/a… berkeleyside.org/2017/04/17/for… facebook.com/share/p/1EPKxT…

Hamilton planning GM placed on leave amid Markham probe 👉 thespec.com/news/hamilton-… Arvin Prasad faces allegations he was paid for consulting for a developer while overseeing planning approvals in Markham.

This is an important story from @MoiraWelsh — an internal Ministry of Labour presentation about how people with disabilities are worse off under the Ford government's job training changes. #onpoli thestar.com/politics/provi…

“The Toronto Police Service is notifying the public about this offender because of his demonstrated risk to the community, including to sex trade workers.” tps.ca/media-centre/n… Community Safety Notification, High-Risk Offender Release, Dave Anthoney Avis, 50

We are so excited to have an accepted (forthcoming) article to the @robsoncrim @MBLawJournal @RobsonHall! Thank you so much 💓

@DesireeAlliance @redumbrellaclub themessyarchives.substack.com/p/fine-ill-be-…

Sex worker says her industry's been reduced to ‘trauma porn’, tells story ‘on her own terms’ Andrea Werhun, a Canadian sex worker, is asked the same question over and over again by her strip club clients: What traumatic incident occurred during her childhood that forced her into the industry? Often, she refuses to answer, and often, her clients are insistent. “Women don’t just become strippers,” a man tells her in Modern Whore, a new documentary that explores her decade-long career as a sex worker. “Something must have happened.” Werhun has a name for the kinds of stories her clientele fish for: “trauma porn.” Though she admits in the documentary that she has no idea why an individual would be so desperate for her to relive her emotional distress, she thinks it’s part of a broader effort to create a narrative of shame surrounding sex work, marking it as an illegitimate profession. And she’s had enough. Modern Whore, a documentary directed by Werhun’s longtime collaborator Nicole Bazuin and based on Werhun’s 2018 memoir of the same name, is her effort to flip the script. The film, which is executive produced by Oscar-winning Anora director Sean Baker and is available to rent on May 1st, combines her personal testimonial, conversations with some of her friends in the industry and reenactments of key moments from her years as a sex worker. (The man who asserts that she must be acting out after a traumatic childhood is played by an actor, though the moment is based on actual client interactions.) The narrative the documentary presents is much more complicated than the one many of her clients attempt to place on her: Sex work is, yes, risky and filled with predators, but mostly because it’s an unregulated and criminalized industry. Source: uk.news.yahoo.com/sex-worker-say…

@redumbrellaclub @DesireeAlliance themessyarchives.substack.com/p/fine-ill-be-…

@DesireeAlliance Andrea supports full decriminalization. she's a Canadian based sex worker so she already knows the harms of the Nordic Model and that sex workers are still getting arrested and deported.

@redumbrellaclub themessyarchives.substack.com/p/fine-ill-be-…

As a former sex worker from the age of 17 and homeless, and onwards for almost two decades, I fully support this campaign. We do not need to hide in the shadows like before, in this era of onlyfans busking. I did what I did to survive on the streets, abusing alcohol to be able to do the work and forget it. Someday I'll tell my full story, but you can learn Jelena's through a multitude of media, @IsisIntrepid. Go follow and boost. #Hamilton #onpoli #sexwork

Interesting: Ontario court refuses a general warrant that would require suspect's biometrics to unlock digital devices. Re Application for Biometrics Scanning as part of a General Warrant, 2026 ONCJ 234 canlii.ca/t/kkl41

We wear purple today! We wear purple to show survivors that it takes a community to end sexual violence and that no one asks for or deserves to experience sexual violence. Will you help us spread the word? Post your purple pics with #NoOneAsksForlt and tag @SACHAhamont to purple-ify social media and show survivors they are not alone! #HamOnt

@XXXWorkers 🙄😒

“…research and past event analysis showed an increase in tourism leads to an increase in sex work, which can elevate the risk of human trafficking and exploitation.” ~ RCMP Staff Sgt. Kris Clark thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/3…

McMaster University @McMasterU will lower its flags in remembrance of Dr. Juliet Daniel at a future date, to be determined in consultation with her estate. #HamOnt @McMasterScience news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-commu…

themessyarchives.substack.com/p/fine-ill-be-… Read this by @KitokoMai first before watching Modern Whore

Thank you to @The_Hamiltonian for interviewing me this week: thehamiltonian.net/2026/04/before… #HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli