SWAN Vancouver
@swan-vancouver.bsky.social
We promote the rights, health, and safety of im/migrant women engaged in indoor sex work through frontline service and systemic advocacy.
swanvancouver.ca
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Our Japanese-language services launched in 2024 to support a growing, underserved community with healthcare, legal, immigration and housing needs. Learn more and support this work with a holiday gift: swanvancouver.ca/donate
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Our Japanese-language services launched in 2024 to support a growing, underserved community with healthcare, legal, immigration and housing needs. Learn more and support this work with a holiday gift: swanvancouver.ca/donate
Let’s keep pushing towards our $10,000 goal for Healthcare Without Fear, which funds essential healthcare access programs for im/migrant women engaged in indoor sex work. We have $3,381 left to raise to meet our fundraising goal. Every gift counts this holiday season: swanvancouver.ca/donate
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Let’s keep pushing towards our $10,000 goal for Healthcare Without Fear, which funds essential healthcare access programs for im/migrant women engaged in indoor sex work. We have $3,381 left to raise to meet our fundraising goal. Every gift counts this holiday season: swanvancouver.ca/donate
Thank you for making #GivingTuesday so special! Because of you, we raised $2,839, for a total of $6,010 with matching donations, to fund healthcare access services. There’s still $311 left to match if you donate anytime between now and the end of the year. Swanvancouver.ca/donate
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thank you for making #GivingTuesday so special! Because of you, we raised $2,839, for a total of $6,010 with matching donations, to fund healthcare access services. There’s still $311 left to match if you donate anytime between now and the end of the year. Swanvancouver.ca/donate
More than 70% of the calls we receive are from women looking for safe care. From mobile STBBI testing to interpretation, safer sex supply delivery, and connecting people to trusted providers — these services fill a critical gap. Help make Healthcare Without Fear a reality: swanvancouver.ca/donate
This #GivingTuesday, support Healthcare Without Fear, our campaign to raise $10,000 for SWAN’s safe, confidential, and language-accessible healthcare access programs. Donate today: swanvancouver.ca/donate
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
More than 70% of the calls we receive are from women looking for safe care. From mobile STBBI testing to interpretation, safer sex supply delivery, and connecting people to trusted providers — these services fill a critical gap. Help make Healthcare Without Fear a reality: swanvancouver.ca/donate
This #GivingTuesday, support Healthcare Without Fear, our campaign to raise $10,000 for SWAN’s safe, confidential, and language-accessible healthcare access programs. Donate today: swanvancouver.ca/donate
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This #GivingTuesday, support Healthcare Without Fear, our campaign to raise $10,000 for SWAN’s safe, confidential, and language-accessible healthcare access programs. Donate today: swanvancouver.ca/donate
Thank you Scott McBride and Heike Roth, for joining our #GivingTuesday matching program. Alongside matching gifts from private donor Julie M. and local business Blackbird Fabrics — our total matching amount is $3,150! Support Healthcare Without Fear for im/migrant women: swanvancouver.ca/donate
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thank you Scott McBride and Heike Roth, for joining our #GivingTuesday matching program. Alongside matching gifts from private donor Julie M. and local business Blackbird Fabrics — our total matching amount is $3,150! Support Healthcare Without Fear for im/migrant women: swanvancouver.ca/donate
Our mobile STBBI testing pilot project is expected to facilitate about 300 tests with im/migrant women engaged in indoor sex work. Help make this safe, anonymous and language-accessible service a permanent part of our programming: swanvancouver.ca/donate vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our mobile STBBI testing pilot project is expected to facilitate about 300 tests with im/migrant women engaged in indoor sex work. Help make this safe, anonymous and language-accessible service a permanent part of our programming: swanvancouver.ca/donate vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
A generous private donor, Julie M., is doubling your impact this GivingTuesday! Gifts made to our “Healthcare Without Fear” campaign will be matched up to $1,000, helping us provide healthcare access programs designed to protect im/migrant sex workers’ safety and privacy. swanvancouver.ca/donate/
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A generous private donor, Julie M., is doubling your impact this GivingTuesday! Gifts made to our “Healthcare Without Fear” campaign will be matched up to $1,000, helping us provide healthcare access programs designed to protect im/migrant sex workers’ safety and privacy. swanvancouver.ca/donate/
SWAN Vancouver has launched mobile STBBI testing in partnership with the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre (VIDC). As an alternative to in-person visits to clinics, our staff collect samples at women's workplaces, transport them for testing, and work with our partner clinic for follow-up.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
SWAN Vancouver has launched mobile STBBI testing in partnership with the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre (VIDC). As an alternative to in-person visits to clinics, our staff collect samples at women's workplaces, transport them for testing, and work with our partner clinic for follow-up.
Only 12% of im/migrant sex workers who experienced violence in Metro Vancouver reported it to the police. Criminalization of sex work is a barrier to reporting violence, and it allows people to get away with violence against women. #InternationalDayfortheEliminationofViolenceAgainstWomen
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Only 12% of im/migrant sex workers who experienced violence in Metro Vancouver reported it to the police. Criminalization of sex work is a barrier to reporting violence, and it allows people to get away with violence against women. #InternationalDayfortheEliminationofViolenceAgainstWomen
Your gift goes twice as far this #GivingTuesday! For the second year, Blackbird Fabrics is matching donations up to $1,000 to our "Healthcare Without Fear" campaign — supporting healthcare access designed to protect im/migrant sex workers’ safety and privacy. swanvancouver.ca/donate/
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Your gift goes twice as far this #GivingTuesday! For the second year, Blackbird Fabrics is matching donations up to $1,000 to our "Healthcare Without Fear" campaign — supporting healthcare access designed to protect im/migrant sex workers’ safety and privacy. swanvancouver.ca/donate/
SWAN fills the gaps left by systems that exclude or endanger im/migrant women in sex work - from STBBI testing and healthcare accompaniments to safer sex supply delivery. Ahead of the launch of our Healthcare Without Fear campaign, we’re highlighting donors who help make these services possible.
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
SWAN fills the gaps left by systems that exclude or endanger im/migrant women in sex work - from STBBI testing and healthcare accompaniments to safer sex supply delivery. Ahead of the launch of our Healthcare Without Fear campaign, we’re highlighting donors who help make these services possible.
Our supporters give because they believe every woman deserves to access Healthcare Without Fear -- without arrest, stigma, racism, or discrimination. At SWAN Vancouver, we make that possible through programs designed to protect im/migrant women’s safety and privacy. swanvancouver.ca/donate/
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Our supporters give because they believe every woman deserves to access Healthcare Without Fear -- without arrest, stigma, racism, or discrimination. At SWAN Vancouver, we make that possible through programs designed to protect im/migrant women’s safety and privacy. swanvancouver.ca/donate/
Seventy per cent of calls from the im/migrant women we support are about accessing healthcare. Help us ensure Healthcare Without Fear this #GivingTuesday - because no one should have to choose between their health and their safety.
DONATE on GivingTuesday or give early: swanvancouver.ca/donate/
DONATE on GivingTuesday or give early: swanvancouver.ca/donate/
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Seventy per cent of calls from the im/migrant women we support are about accessing healthcare. Help us ensure Healthcare Without Fear this #GivingTuesday - because no one should have to choose between their health and their safety.
DONATE on GivingTuesday or give early: swanvancouver.ca/donate/
DONATE on GivingTuesday or give early: swanvancouver.ca/donate/
We attended the GAATW Canada conference in Winnipeg, where we spent two days connecting with organizations across Canada that are fighting exploitation, dispelling harmful misinformation, and finding ways to collaborate due to limited resources.
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We attended the GAATW Canada conference in Winnipeg, where we spent two days connecting with organizations across Canada that are fighting exploitation, dispelling harmful misinformation, and finding ways to collaborate due to limited resources.
Our Community Program is in full swing! Being a newcomer in Canada can be isolating, but our English classes, cooking sessions, outdoor activities and more bring im/migrant women together for learning opportunities and social activities. Your support helps run this program: swanvancouver.ca/donate
October 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Our Community Program is in full swing! Being a newcomer in Canada can be isolating, but our English classes, cooking sessions, outdoor activities and more bring im/migrant women together for learning opportunities and social activities. Your support helps run this program: swanvancouver.ca/donate
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂!
October 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂!
We’ve expanded beyond the Lower Mainland. Through a multi-year project, our staff trained settlement agencies, sex work organizations and harm reduction groups on the barriers im/migrant sex workers face, to ensure women are accessing safe services wherever they work.
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We’ve expanded beyond the Lower Mainland. Through a multi-year project, our staff trained settlement agencies, sex work organizations and harm reduction groups on the barriers im/migrant sex workers face, to ensure women are accessing safe services wherever they work.
We’re looking for a fluent Japanese speaker to join our Outreach Team! You’ll meet women where they work and deliver safer sex supplies, collect samples for STBBI testing, and provide client-centered support, advocacy and case management. APPLY NOW: swanvancouver.ca/who-we-are/#careers
September 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We’re looking for a fluent Japanese speaker to join our Outreach Team! You’ll meet women where they work and deliver safer sex supplies, collect samples for STBBI testing, and provide client-centered support, advocacy and case management. APPLY NOW: swanvancouver.ca/who-we-are/#careers
Our 2024–2025 Annual Report is here! This past year, we:
• Expanded services beyond the Lower Mainland
• Launched an Advisory Group pilot project
• Diversified funding to secure programs and organizational stability
• Welcomed more supporters to SWAN
FULL REPORT: swanvancouver.ca/wp-content/u...
• Expanded services beyond the Lower Mainland
• Launched an Advisory Group pilot project
• Diversified funding to secure programs and organizational stability
• Welcomed more supporters to SWAN
FULL REPORT: swanvancouver.ca/wp-content/u...
swanvancouver.ca
September 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our 2024–2025 Annual Report is here! This past year, we:
• Expanded services beyond the Lower Mainland
• Launched an Advisory Group pilot project
• Diversified funding to secure programs and organizational stability
• Welcomed more supporters to SWAN
FULL REPORT: swanvancouver.ca/wp-content/u...
• Expanded services beyond the Lower Mainland
• Launched an Advisory Group pilot project
• Diversified funding to secure programs and organizational stability
• Welcomed more supporters to SWAN
FULL REPORT: swanvancouver.ca/wp-content/u...
Reposted by SWAN Vancouver
"The women who work here are not forced to do anything [...] if they want to leave, they can leave anytime." @swan-vancouver.bsky.social showed women Canadian news stories about sex work, which was often conflated with human trafficking. Here's what they said: swanvancouver.ca/resource/cur...
Current Journalistic Representation: Assessment & Suggestions from Im/migrant Women Engaged in Indoor Sex Work | SWAN Vancouver Society
Current Journalistic Representation: Assessment & Suggestions from Im/migrant Women Engaged in Indoor Sex Work
swanvancouver.ca
August 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The women who work here are not forced to do anything [...] if they want to leave, they can leave anytime." @swan-vancouver.bsky.social showed women Canadian news stories about sex work, which was often conflated with human trafficking. Here's what they said: swanvancouver.ca/resource/cur...
Reposted by SWAN Vancouver
The Washington Post reports that the woman arrested was born into poverty in South Korea and was a sex worker for years before becoming a madam. She screened clients, workers kept half the proceeds of services and they were allowed to refuse any services. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/...
‘High-end brothel’ serving politicians and executives busted, feds say
The client list, which could number in the hundreds, included elected officials, business executives, professors and military officers, according to prosecutors.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The Washington Post reports that the woman arrested was born into poverty in South Korea and was a sex worker for years before becoming a madam. She screened clients, workers kept half the proceeds of services and they were allowed to refuse any services. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/...
Reposted by SWAN Vancouver
“Despite many of the sex workers involved being Asian—a fact that greatly increases the odds of a prostitution bust being called a 'human trafficking sting'—news reports have largely refrained from trying to portray the women involved as hapless victims of sexual servitude.” - @enbrown.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“Despite many of the sex workers involved being Asian—a fact that greatly increases the odds of a prostitution bust being called a 'human trafficking sting'—news reports have largely refrained from trying to portray the women involved as hapless victims of sexual servitude.” - @enbrown.bsky.social
Reposted by SWAN Vancouver
Reporters dropped the "sex slave" narrative while covering the Boston brothel sting, and Journalism Professor Elizabeth Nolan Brown says it finally cleared the air for the public to ask, What's the point? reason.com/2025/04/09/c...
Cambridge brothel case: What's the point?
Massachusetts is in the midst of prosecuting people who patronized a fancy sex business near Harvard University. But what's the point?
reason.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reporters dropped the "sex slave" narrative while covering the Boston brothel sting, and Journalism Professor Elizabeth Nolan Brown says it finally cleared the air for the public to ask, What's the point? reason.com/2025/04/09/c...
"The closure of the PACE Society and the Wish Drop-In Centre leaves sex workers in Vancouver with even fewer options to turn to when they need support." via The Early Edition
Vancouver sex workers frustrated over loss of supportive service PACE Society
The closure of the PACE Society and the Wish Drop-In Centre leaves sex workers in Vancouver with even fewer options to turn to when they need support. The Early Edition’s Stephen Quinn spoke with sex ...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"The closure of the PACE Society and the Wish Drop-In Centre leaves sex workers in Vancouver with even fewer options to turn to when they need support." via The Early Edition