Chanelle Gallant

EVENT! "Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice: LA Edition" w/ Chanelle Gallant and Kimberly Soriano

🕖Dec. 10, 7-9 pm EST
📍Stories Books and Café, Los Angeles, CA
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Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won't Stop the Next Epstein. Here's What Will. We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.

"Survivors need to be in charge of their own stories and lives."

"What the rich won't say is that one of the most impactful interventions in a survivor's life is not calling the police — it's redistributed wealth."
#USA #Trafficking #Surveillance #Policing #Incarceration #SexWork #SexualViolence

In the fight for sex workers’ rights, this is solidarity Over 300 migrant sex workers took on city hall to keep their businesses, showing the power of collective organising

Kicking us off is a fantastic piece about solidarities in action by Elene Lam & @chanellegallant.bsky.social .

Lots to learn here from Butterfly about how Asian migrant sex workers have organised across silos in Canada and the US.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”

- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social

truthout.org/articles/sex...

Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam (08/11/25) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice

www.patreon.com/posts/136180...

Tangentially related, from @chanellegallant.bsky.social :

"Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.... Most go unreported, buried in sealed indictments."

Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam (Unlocked) Note: This episode was originally released August 11th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become

Now unlocked: we speak with @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice

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🔥 quote on the card is from @chanellegallant.bsky.social & Elene Lam @haymarketbooks.org

The Right to Be Called Workers - Chanelle Gallant & Elene Lam - Inquest Language of ‘trafficking’ and ‘slavery’ disempowers migrant sex workers while directing attention away from state violence.

“How has the public’s idea about migrant sex workers become so twisted that their being held in a cage could be described as freedom? Why are brutality and terror seen as promoting public safety, so long as the abuser is the state?” @chanellegallant.bsky.social & Elene Lam inquest.org/the-righ...

Great event w @chanellegallant.bsky.social and Elene Lam and @redcanarysong.bsky.social

A Culture of Care: The Secret to Building Organizations People Want to Stay In What we learned about organizing white folks away from the racist right.

"The most important reason we need a culture of care in our organizations is that we won’t win without it. Winning requires growth. Growth requires building community. Community requires genuine caring ..." - @chanellegallant.bsky.social @tom-malleson.bsky.social @surjto.bsky.social

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read the full story in our book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-n...

thank you @truthout.org for letting us share the power of migrant sex worker resistance 🧨

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Chanelle Gallant, coauthor “Not Your Rescue Project”, on centering migrant sex workers in liberation work, on the new episode of the pod episodes.fm/1653309103/e...

Elene Lam (“Not Your Rescue Project”, Butterfly Asian & Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) on the self-appointed saviors who thrive in the anti-sex trafficking industrial complex

“Not Your Rescue Project” co-author @chanellegallant.bsky.social defines “carceral feminism”, on the new episode of the podcast: episodes.fm/1653309103/e...

Not Your Rescue Project Book

Find it here: notyourrescueprojectbook.com

hi there, co-author of the piece & thank you for asking! you’re right, there wasn’t an ask in the piece but our book has a chapter dedicated to how you can support migrant sw’s. this isn’t just a plug for the book—we want the help! And it is critical to learn who migrant sw’s are before jumping in.