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And spent the Dog Days of Summer in Boston! What a lovely city by the sea filled with wonderful people and beautiful vistas by @ainopihlak
Ann ArbHer: Land of Sisterhood & Ice Cream by @ainopihlak
Spent a few days in SHE-E-I! Spoke with Anne, and shes doing a Het Pivot too by @ainopihlak
Thank you to the 85 people who participated in last night’s Queers at the Table book event in partnership with @threedollarbill.parkdale @eat.out.supperclub @anotherstorybookshop ! We ate. We chatted about queer food and queer stories. We drank. And we dreamed. Thank you to @tobibutnotmaguire and @ainopihlak ( @queerfoodconference Queers at the Table contributors for speaking! ( @megelias and @dr.alexketchum also spoke). Thanks to @saraedye of @eat.out.supperclub for your amazing food ( and thanks @tobibutnotmaguire for also cooking!). Thank you to our booksellers @anotherstorybookshop for selling Queers at the Table @arsenalpulp and also my other books from @concordiapress and @microcosm_pub ! Thank you to Meaghan of @threedollarbill.parkdale for hosting us in your beautiful, wheelchair accessible space. I love all of the art - especially the mural downstairs. Thank you @meaghanrochellemurray for making so many harm reduction materials available. @mcgillarts @mcgillu by @ainopihlak
Fall 2025: Serving Cunt & Surviving Cataclysms by @ainopihlak
It’s the end of an era! Join us exclusively in-person in Sidney Smith Hall Room 2098 on November 13th from 12:10-2 pm EST for Whorestory Volume Two: Balancing on Tight Ropes! Our speakers will talk about how to juggle sex and civilian work, how to navigate inter-personal conflict on the job, how to keep your footing while working in different locales, and how sex-work can help balance the scales of the self. All this, in the high-flying final talk of Whorestory Volume Two! The speakers include current/former sex workers, scholars of sex work, and those who blur categorization. For more information or to get your free in-person ticket, please scan the QR code in the poster, or click on the link in my bio. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 #sexwork #toronto #whorestory by @ainopihlak
Hey tricks and treats! Join us on October 15th from 12:10-2 pm EST in-person or over Zoom for Whorestory Volume Two: Mind the Gaps. Our four speakers will collectively talk through the gaps between sex-worker solidarity and fetishizing sex-worker aesthetics; gaps in connection, renumeration, and labour for certain kinds of sex-work; and the gaps between fantasy & reality. Scan the QR or click the link in my bio to reserve your in-person or Zoom ticket to Whorestory Volume Two: Mind the Gap(s) 😈👻😈👻😈👻😈👻😈👻😈👻 #sexwork #whorestory #herstory #sexworkiswork by @ainopihlak
Another Story Bookshop (@anotherstorybookshop), The ArQuives (@thearquives), Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (@bonhamcentre), & LittlePuss Press (@littlepusspress) invite you to celebrate the first print collection of the zine that changed everything: GenderTrash From Hell edited by Mirha-Soleil Ross featuring Trish Salah (Anasemiasays) hosted by Kai Cheng Thom (@kaichengthom), with a screening of Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay's short film, Gender Troublemakers readings by Jelena Vermillion (@isisintrepid) Jordan King (@jordankingarchive) Aino Pihlak (@ainopihlak) and Helen Chazan and many trans zines! Wednesday, November 12 / Doors 6:45, readings 7pm at Tranzac Club (@tranzac292), 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto (@cityofto). RSVP at gendertrash.eventbrite.ca by @ainopihlak
It has truly been a Saturn Return Summer 💛🌌💛🌌💛🌌💛🌌💛🌌💛🌌💛🌌💛🌌 by @ainopihlak
You can’t keep a good hooker down. We’re back! Sex workers' knowledges and histories are important. Our voices matter. On September 25th from 12:10- 2 pm EST, join us in-person or Zoom to hear three of those voices. The September edition of Whorestory titled: "The Dressed Body: Sex Workers’ Aesthetics & Artifices” features three speakers grappling with the meaning(s) between the self and sartorial, aesthetic and essence. The speakers include current/former sex workers, scholars of sex work, and those who blur categorization. Register via the QR Code or the link in my bio! #sexwork #whorestory #herstory #sexworkiswork 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 by @ainopihlak
Trans and Non-Binary Sex Workers Demand Accountability from Major Canadian Non-Profits FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A coalition of over two dozen trans sex worker activists, peer workers, and community leaders across Canada are calling out systemic transmisogyny, exclusion, and structural violence within the country’s largest sex work non-profits. Organizations such as @maggiestoronto, @pacesociety, Stella Montreal (@organismestella), and the @canadianalliance4swlawreform have built reputations and secured funding off the labour and stories of trans sex workers — particularly Black and Indigenous trans women — while silencing, tokenizing, and discarding us. A clear example is Monica Forrester (@transpridetorontott), a trans woman and peer leader who was fired despite decades of dedicated service, illustrating the ongoing retaliation against trans workers who challenge cis-dominated leadership. These harms are not isolated. They reflect hostile governance, tokenization, and gatekeeping, causing devastating consequences: loss of employment and income, reputational damage, social isolation, retraumatization, and even immigration challenges. Our labour has been erased, our stories stolen, and funds misused in ways that directly harm the most marginalized in our communities. We will no longer tolerate transmisogynistic non-profits claiming to represent us. Our Demands We demand these organizations: •Rehire Monica • Restructure leadership to include Black and Indigenous trans sex workers in paid, decision-making roles • Implement transparent accountability processes for transmisogyny and anti-Blackness, led by trans sex workers • Enforce protections against retaliation, exclusion, and erasure • Redistribute resources to trans-led initiatives, not cis-dominated leadership circles • Issue public accountability statements acknowledging harm and outlining concrete repair Call to Action We urge: • The public to withhold trust until demands are met • Funders to stop financing groups profiting from trans labour while perpetuating exclusion • Media to report honestly on this systemic violence • Allies to amplify trans and non-binary voices and initiatives We Demand Justice! by @ainopihlak
My pal @ainopihlak is always up to something amazing 👏 by @ainopihlak

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