Community rallies in support of woman violently sexually assaulted last month
2022-07-21
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That rallying call rang through Barton Street East on Friday night as dozens of community members marched in a showing of support for a sex worker who was sexually assaulted and beaten last month.
“The law in Canada exacerbates and reproduces harms,” said Vermilion. “So long as the act of engaging in sex for money is illegal, sex workers will not see police as allies in mom .....
COVID-19: Advocacy group wants financial relief for Hamilton sex workers
2020-04-02
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For those who depend on the intimate, physical contact of sex work to make a living, COVID-19 is taking a wicked toll.
“I have abstained,” local sex worker Jelena Vermilion said Wednesday. “I’m not working right now.”
The epidemic has left many of her colleagues in a cash crunch that threatens homelessness, hunger and serious health risks.
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