Since starting law school in 2014, I have had a range of experiences. These experiences have opened my eyes to how advocacy, especially from your own lived realities, can impact you personally. I never really understood this until I reflected on how my experiences with law school, feminism and sex work intersect.  For instance, following […]

Sometimes, in law, certain facts become settled as unchanging truths; these truths are brought forward as evidence to support a claim or rebut such a claim. For Cindy Gladue, a mother, daughter, and Indigenous woman who sold and traded sex before she was found dead in a bathtub, one of those facts was that she […]

Dear sex work movement, I am sad. I don’t know why. I was told from the beginning, “be careful.” Be careful, it’s not everything you’ve signed up for. I am one person. But I am not the only person, the only Indigenous person, the only Indigenous woman who supports decriminalization of sex work. Yet, when […]

The first protest that I went to was for Cindy Gladue, calling for an appeal to the not-guilty jury verdict against Bradley Barton. I knew two days before that the Crown was going to appeal—two days before the Crown decided to make a public announcement on the same day the nation-wide protests took place, and […]

Well, the year is almost over and that means… it’s time for top 10 posts of 2015 on http://www.kwetoday.com! Our bodies are not terra nullius (where Erin Konsmo’s work inspired the title of this post) Public issues vs. private troubles (to all first year sociology/criminology students who google “examples of public issues vs. private troubles” […]

Note: This is a shortened version of a paper I submitted for a class during last term. Not all sources are publicly available. Not all sources previously cited in the paper are referred to in this shortened version and not all sources are cited according to appropriate legal citation. Thus, I significantly changed the structure […]

Whenever I read about how an Indigenous woman who worked in the sex trade died, I literally feel the pain in my body. Nadine’s pain. Cindy’s pain. Today was a hard day. When the verdict following the case of Cindy Gladue happened, I remember I had a dream about her, in that hotel room and […]

For the most part, the interview flowed more like a conversation. I hate interviews. Job interviews. I am getting used to them. I think. Maybe. Perhaps not, still unemployed, in the conventional sense (but able to survive). I visited my school’s career and development centre after my friend suggested I go to them. I am glad […]

In a recent Supreme Court decision, R v Rodgerson, the court ruled on the issue of relying on post-offence conduct. At the actual hearing, the Appellant (the Crown) highlighted that post-offence conduct “continues to be an issue.”[1]In this context, post-offence conduct is an issue for criminal trials involving juries; specifically, it is the trial judge’s […]

Foucault first proposed the idea in 1977 where he suggested that rape be treated like any other act of violence, like a punch in the face. Foucault stated, “In any case, sexuality can in no circumstances be the subject of punishment.”[1] First, sexuality is used in this context to refer, I am assuming, to the […]