Tag: public memory

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. This latest entry features the fierce Sarah York-Bertram – feminist, activist, and sex work historian.

A scholar from Treaty Six Territory, Sarah York-Bertram is a PhD Candidate in York University’s Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies programme. She studies histories of sex work, the affective basis of social responses to the sex trade, and the erasure of sex workers’ histories from public memory specializing in the geographic area of the Canadian Prairies. She won a Joseph Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship for 2015-2018 in support of her dissertation project Stopping Traffic: Historicizing Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada’s Prairie West, 1880-1940

Also a qualitative and community-based researcher, Sarah has worked on studies of feminist pedagogies in relation to intercultural learning, educational access and justice, harm reduction, parenthood in the context of HIV/AIDS, and digital queer communities and activisms. She has also coordinated the Neil Richards Exploring Cultures Group and various other queer and feminist-focused groups in Saskatoon and Toronto.

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