Education and work
Namaste received a BA from Carleton University in 1989, an MA in Sociology from York University, and a doctorate from Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics. [2] [3] She worked within ACT UP Paris. [3] In 2001, she received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for her book titled, Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. [4] That same year, Namaste was also a director in the documentary Madame Lauraine's Transsexual Touch which deals with transsexual sex workers as well as sexual health and clientele. [5]
Namaste became an associate professor and the Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [4] In 2009, she received the "Canadian Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights", awarded jointly by the HIV Legal Network and Human Rights Watch. [6]
In 2013, she was called as an official intervenor in a hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada [7] on whether the ban on solicitation, prohibition of brothels and criminality of making a living from prostitution violates the Charter of Rights. [8]
The feminist journal, Hypatia , has called Namaste's work, "extremely important". [9]
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