My chapter on HIV/AIDS and immigration in Canada is due out this October in Eithne Luibhéid and Karma Chavez’s new anthology Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. This chapter examines my own experience immigrating to Canada alongside an analysis of Canada’s medical inadmissibility/excessive demand clause that bars people with disabilities and most medical conditions, including HIV, from immigrating to Canada.
This summer I facilitated a panel discussion on immigration and male sex workers following a screening of the short film Marco (2019). The event was organized by MAX Ottawa for Capital Pride and included Josh from MAX and Elene from Butterfly. Josh and I have also co-authored a soon-to-be-released report titled On the Move based on a needs assessment conducted pre-COVID by MAX for guys who do sex work in the Quebec-Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor.
Friend and colleague Emma McKenna and I have submitted our piece “Beyond Social Safety Nets: COVID-19, Sex Workers, and Universal Basic Income’s Equitable Base” for publication. Along with Chris Bruckert we also applied for a grant to do a research project on sex worker mutual aid organizing in Ottawa-Gatineau during COVID-19 in collaboration with our pals at POWER.