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Elene Lamis an activist, artist, community organizer, educator, and human rights defender. She has fought for sex worker, migrant, gender, labor, and racial justice for over twenty years. She is the founder of Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Support Network and the cofounder of Migrant Sex Workers Project. She has used diverse and innovative approaches to advocate social justice for migrant sex workers, such as leadership building and community mobilization. She holds a master's of law and master's of social work. She is a PhD candidate at McMaster University (School of Social Work) and is studying the harm of the anti-trafficking movement. She was awarded the Constance E. Hamilton Award for Women's Equality by the City of Toronto. is the eldest daughter of a poor single mother. She has been building movements that can protect the lives and liberation of poor and working class women and queers for 25 years. Chanelle is a movement writer, organizer, strategist and consultant whose writing has appeared in over a dozen books and publications. She co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project, SURJ-Toronto and has provided training and advocacy on sex work and racial justice, from city hall to the United Nations. Chanelle sits on the national board for Showing Up for Racial Justice and Catalyst Project and has helped to move millions into organizing through donor advising and grassroots fundraising. She holds an MA in Sociology and was a Lambda Literary Fellow. Find her at chanellegallant.com. (2021). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anticapitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women's Memorial March Committee. . She is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe.
""Not Your Rescue Project is a powerful indictment of the violence and injustice that Global South migrant sex workers face under the banners of rescue and saviourism. It offers forthright and compelling documentation of the struggles and humanity of such migrants who live and work in Canada and the US, while providing a searing critique of anti-prostitution, victim-centered approaches, including the anti-human trafficking industry. This is a much-needed book that brings significant depth to a growing trend in global sex worker rights research—a crucial call to action for students, researchers, and activists concerned with migrant, sexuality, and feminist and global worker justice and rights."" —Kamala Kempadoo, Professor Emerita, Social Science, York University “You will never be the same after reading, studying, teaching, and sharing Not Your Rescue Project. Curating personalized interludes, historical analysis, and grassroots movement archiving, this book is a masterpiece composition of survival, self-defense, and liberationist testimonial strategies. Migrant sex workers are truth-tellers, solidarity organizers, community builders, and grounded critical practitioners who are permanently reshaping abolitionist, anti-imperialist, anti-violence, radical feminist, and various other streams of ‘left’ mobilization. Simultaneously creative, generous, and graceful in its layered invitations to engage in the complex challenges of ‘joint struggle,’ this foundational text calls on every justice-oriented community to engage with the incomparable radicalism of migrant sex worker praxis."" —Dylan Rodríguez, scholar, teacher, movement collaborator, and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside ""Not Your Rescue Project exposes the right-wing 'rescue' fraud perpetrated by the sex work prohibitionists and their carceral allies by centering the lived experience of migrant sex workers organizing for their own liberation. It is essential reading for anyone interested in pushing back against those who mobilize state violence in the guise of helping vulnerable workers."" —Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing ""Intellectually trenchant, emotionally affecting, and deeply needed, Not Your Rescue Project is absolutely essential reading for anyone involved in social justice, labor activism, human rights, migrant justice, and sex education. For far too long, misconceptions, racism, anti–sex work stigma, and blatant opportunism have shaped legislation and policy on sex work to the severe detriment of those with the most to lose. Elene Lam and Chanelle Gallant set the record straight with powerful analysis and storytelling drawn from many years of solidarity and advocacy work with migrant sex workers, exposing the exploitation and outright deception perpetrated by the so-called anti-human trafficking movement. This is one of the most important books on migrant justice, labor justice, and sex worker rights that I have read in the past decade and I am so grateful that it exists."" —Kai Cheng Thom, author of I Hope We Choose Love ""Many queer people are familiar with the saying 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.' In this rousing book on migrant sex worker struggle, the founder of the Butterfly network Elene Lam and organizer Chanelle Gallant demonstrate how the joyful labor of solidarity lifts everyone’s gaze to a just and liberated horizon for all, in stark contrast with the prevalent saviorist and humanitarian approaches to sex trafficking. When butterflies get together to extract minerals from a shallow patch of muddy water, it is called a 'puddle club.' Not Your Rescue Project opens our eyes to the powerful human 'puddle clubs' all around us, beating their wings for justice and somehow turning the mud slung at them into nourishment. This book makes joining them irresistible."" —Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms and Abolish the Family
