Over the past two decades, she has been working in alliance with sex workers for the decriminalization of prostitution, and to build a broader social, labor, and legal rights agenda. She is the author of Making Work, Making Trouble: Prostitution as a Social Proble,. University of Toronto Press, 1998; and editor of Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada, Nelson, 2003. She is committed to writing with women in the sex trade whenever possible, thereby re-positioning sex workers from research subjects to research collaborators.