Lena Van Hale, manager of the sex worker rights organisation, Magenta, is a sex worker activist and trans person. In this interview she breaks down the misinformation around violence and death for sex workers, why (and when) suicide is actually prevalent among trans people, and how deaths from the HIV pandemic affect everyone today.

Death and Dying is an oral history collection commissioned by the State Library of Western Australia and produced by Centre for Stories. Head to centreforstories.com to find out more.