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Andrea Werhun is a white woman with brown hair, wearing a pink dress with a V-neckline. She is sitting down at a make-up table, looking at a three-paned mirror and applying lipstick.

Modern Whore: A Not So Sentimental Education

by Justine Smith
December 27, 2025
Features/Interviews

Modern Whore director Nicole Bazuin and star Andrea Werhun make the case that it's high time to consider sex work as labour with all the rights and protections that entails.

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Sugar Babies Review: The Bitter Truth of the Oldest Profession

by Pat Mullen
February 2, 2025
Reviews/Sundance

Sugar Babies observes sex work in the age of social media, and the economic hardships that may necessitate it for America's youths.

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Hookers on Davie Turns 40

by Matthew Hays
February 27, 2024
Essays/Features

Hookers on Davie at 40: A tribute to the landmark documentary about sex work in the '80s by Janis Cole and Holly Dale.

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Kokomo City Review: Transgressive, with a Twist

by Marc Glassman
July 28, 2023
Reviews

D. Smith documents the lives of four Black transwomen and sex workers in her candid and promising feature debut Kokomo City.

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The Stroll Review: A Walk through Trans History

by Pat Mullen
January 25, 2023June 6, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker chronicles the stories of Black transwomen sex workers in New York's meatpacking district in The Stroll.

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D. Smith Talks KOKOMO CITY and Trans Representation

by Pat Mullen
January 21, 2023August 10, 2023
Interviews/Sundance

D. Smith captures stories of Black transwomen in the groundbreaking KOKOMO CITY.

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The Sundance Documentary Short Films Get Personal

by Pat Mullen
January 20, 2023
Reviews/Sundance

Sundance documentary shorts include Will You Look at Me, Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles, Kylie, Call Me Mommy, and Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers.

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POV Presents ‘Anny’ at Rendezvous with Madness

by Pat Mullen
October 26, 2021
Festivals

Win tickets to see Anny at Rendezvous with Madness Festival, running Oct. 29 to Nov. 7

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Hot Docs 2013: Buying Sex

by Janis Cole
April 23, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Buying Sex introduces a Canadian legal case being tried to remove prohibitions on communicating for the purposes of prostitution in public

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Hot Docs 2013: The Manor

by James Buffin
April 22, 2013February 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

On the surface, nothing much seems to happen in Shawney Cohen's The Manor, Hot Docs 2013’s opening night film. And yet at the same time it does.

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