Our Mission:

Stella’s primary mission is to improve the quality of life and working conditions for woman-identified sex workers, to educate the greater public on the different ways that sex work happens as well as about our lived experiences as sex workers, so that sex workers might also enjoy and benefit from the same rights to safety and security that are commonplace for other people.

Stella Montreal seeks to:

• Offer support and information to sex workers so that sex workers can work and live in safety and with dignity.

• Help counter violence, the different factors that put sex workers at risk of contracting HIV and STIs and any other threats to our community’s general wellbeing.

• Fight discrimination towards sex workers as well as the social isolation and stigmatization that is endured by many.

• Work towards the decriminalization of all forms of sex work.

• Support the participation of sex workers involvement in our communities.

• Encourage the creation of platforms and forums used to discuss sex work on municipal, provincial, federal and international levels.

Stella’s team works towards these goals by promoting solidarity among sex workers and by creating spaces where sex workers can access power. Stella also participates in the international sex workers’ rights movement.