Not Your Rescue Project w/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam (Unlocked)

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4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Note: This episode was originally released August 11th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice and the solidarities required to organize at the intersection of sex work, migrant justice, and disability justice. Find the book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-not-your-rescue-project Health Communism is now out in paperback! Find it here or order at this link to add a donation to Sameer Project: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-adler-bolton-beatrice-artie-vierkant-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to the death panel.
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0:55.3	I'm Beatrice Saldler Bolton, and today I'm really excited and honored to be joined by our guests,
1:00.0	Chanel Galant and Elaine Lamb, who are co-authors of the book, Not Your Rescue Project,
1:05.0	Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice.
1:07.9	Chanel Galant is an abolitionist feminist who has been fighting to free women's
1:11.8	sexuality from criminalization for over 25 years. She is a frontline organizer, writer, thinker,
1:17.5	and strategist. Chanel co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project, showing up for racial justice,
1:22.7	Toronto, and is currently a visiting activist scholar at the Center for Feminist Research at York University.
1:28.7	Chanel, welcome to the death panel.
1:30.3	Hey, Beatrice. Thank you for having us.
1:32.4	And next we have Elaine.
1:33.7	Elaine Lamb has been a community organizer for over two decades.
1:37.1	She is the founder of Butterfly, the Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network.
1:41.8	She was in the Critical Disability Studies Program and is currently an assistant professor
1:45.6	of social work at York University.
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