Sylvia Machat

By Us, For Us reports pressing circumstances faced by BC sex workers

By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer The By Us, For Us project surveyed over 200 sex workers across Metro Vancouver and Southern Vancouver Island; it highlights essential topics like the COVID-19 pandemic, the criminalization of sex work, the ongoing overdose crisis, and the national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.  In an interview with researcher Sylvia Machat, who wrote the By Us, For Us report, further explanation and insight were provided regarding the project’s goals.  Machat described decriminalizing sex work as “removing restrictions on the sex industry via legislation.” For example, the current legislation has criminalized the act…

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