The exhibition “By and For: 30 Years of Sex Worker Resistance” not only celebrates the struggle for sex worker rights, but the intersectional coordinates of this movement with activism on behalf of other marginalized communities in Canada. The exhibit not only features old news clippings and photographs of marches and symposia, but also a large patchwork quilt made by inmates from the now-closed Tanguay women’s jail in Montreal. There are matchbooks collected from strip clubs, and a neon pink-lit room filled with sex workers’ personal items, from an old cellphone to empty vials that used to contain hormone medication, stored in a perfume box. It will run through March 15 at the MEM – Centre des mémoires montréalaises.
Montreal Museum Celebrates Sex Worker History
