Conversations with three feminist reporters covering the Pickton Trial

By Jessalynn Keller
June 2007

The Missing Women trial in Vancouver involves the key issues of second and third wave feminism: sexual abuse, violence against women, sexuality and the roles that race, class and gender play in power relations. Why then is the media coverage of the case still so reflective of dominant cultural stereotypes of women, violence, sex and race?
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Sex trade workers become journalists to prevent further misrepresentation

By Sunny Freeman

Two Vancouver women-centered service groups supporting sex trade workers aim to control the impact of the media frenzy during the Pickton trial in January 2007 by compiling a press package to protect women from journalists.

WISH and PACE, sex trade worker groups in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, plan to release a video of clips from the extended family of some of the women that Robert Pickton is accused of murdering, before his trial begins on Jan. 8.
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