Someone's mother, sister or daughter

The wealth of knowledge we have been given contributes to a more in-depth and complex understanding of the relationships women who engage in street sex work have with their families and the impact of these relationships on their experiences of receiving services and/or transitioning out of street sex work. [...] The conversational style of many of the interviews, in which there is a relationship between the interviewer and the participant, and the interviewer shares information as well the participant, contributed to variability in the information obtained in the interviews. [...] While maintaining the utmost respect for sex workers personal lived experiences and the ways in which these diverge from the story we are telling, we believe it is still important to foreground some of the connections between the sex industry and the historical and ongoing colonization of Indigenous land and societies and the violent sexualization of Indigenous women. [...] Through stories, people sought to honour the lives of those who have gone missing and been murdered and to re-gain ownership and authority for the families over the representation of these stories in the media. [...] These acts of remembering point to the internal strength and organization of sex worker communities and to the individuality and value of every person in that community: It’s like we just have that understanding and so we kind of tend to come together so whether we crying or we talk about the good times we remember that person in question.