Wendy Babcock >>

Wendy Babcock (May 24, 1979 – August 9, 2011) was a well known activist for the rights of sex work and former child and adult sex worker.

In 2008 Babcock won the first ever Toronto Public Health Champion Award for her work with sex workers which included establishing the Bad Date Coalition, Regent Park Drop In For Female Identified Sex Workers, Safer Stroll Outreach Project, as well as co-establishing the Toronto Police Special Victims Unit and the Sherbourne Health Bus Sex Worker Stop as well as many other sex worker related projects. Babcock worked as a harm reduction worker/sex worker advocate at Street Health Community Nursing Foundation and testified in the Bedford decision which decriminalized prostitution (now being appealled).

Babcock was Lover’s newest writer, attending Osgoode Hall Law School and writing her memoir at the time of her death, Tuesday August 9, 2011.

Articles

What Being a Stripper Taught Me About Being a Feminist, June, 2011

Untangling The Bedford Decision: A Case for the Protection of Sex Workers, June, 2011

Sex Work From an Employee Rights Perspective, July, 2011

Girls, August, 2011

Can a Person Be a Sex Worker Rights Activist While Not Enjoying Sex Themselves?, August 2011