Trustpassing. Volume 4: Digital Safety Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe

Abstract

Volume 4, Digital Safety Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe, turns toward mitigation strategies used by street-based sex workers and expands into broader questions about what constitutes safety and security, emphasizing that these concepts are not universal. It surfaces key insights into potential forms of (digital) safety that could make street-based work safer, offering an open-ended proposition about what becomes prioritized and what is overlooked when we talk about safety and security.

Trustpassing is a series of four zines that share collective stories from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, about how digital vulnerabilities intersect with material forms of security and safety, including but not limited to emergency housing, sex workers’ rights, job security, policing and law enforcement, and access to safe spaces. The zines stem from a community-centred project in partnership the Sex Workers' Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton.