Vancouver Sex Work Community Alliance
about us
The Vancouver Sex Work Community Alliance is a collective of organizations that promotes access to healthcare for sex workers of all genders across the Lower Mainland.
We recognize the numerous barriers to equitable healthcare access for people who do sex work, including sex work criminalization, widespread discrimination, and stigma in healthcare settings. These barriers are often compounded for Indigenous peoples, im/migrants and/or refugees, people who use drugs, trans, nonbinary, and Two-Spirit people, and LGBTQ+ sex workers due to intersectional oppressions.
We combine research, advocacy, and outreach services to sex workers to combat this inequitable healthcare access and provide evidence-based strategies to promoting sex workers’ occupational health, safety, and human rights.
This work takes place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are grateful to be able to do this work on these territories and we support Indigenous peoples’ self-determination and autonomy.
What we do
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Outreach
We offer outreach and drop-in programming to sex workers of all genders, providing safer sex supplies, harm reduction supplies, and referrals for sexual health testing.
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Education
We offer a series of education programs to healthcare providers on how to offer non-stigmatizing care to sex workers.
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Advocacy
We are committed to advocating for the health, safety, and rights of sex workers, through advocacy and research, across all levels of policy.
In 2023, the VSWCA provided