I've spent the last week immersed again in all these updates coming in from all over, on the role of sex workers at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto -- so, straight from my overloaded browser tabs to you, along with a bonus track: Claire Thiboutot, executive director of Montreal's stellar sex worker organization, Stella, on Democracy Now!
<ul>"Sex Worker Rights: Time to Deliver!", on Stella and the goings-on at the sex workers' Stiletto Lounge in the conference's Global Village, from Canadian CTV
This positive piece pairs super cute, super pink photos of a performance on safer sex with right-on links between decriminalization and risk prevention.
Rachel Wotton reports in for the Scarlet Alliance, with a recap of sex worker actions throughout the conference (including unfurling a banner in protest during Bill Gates' speech).
So guess which former US president at the conference said:

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