Sherry Sherqueshaa is a Singaporean transgender woman, human-rights defender, and sex worker activist with over a decade of experience in grassroots organising, research, and regional movement building. She began her journey with Project X, Singapore’s only community-based organisation that supports sex workers, where she advanced from outreach to leadership, providing legal literacy, health education, and crisis support for the most marginalised communities.
At the regional level, Sherry formerly served as the Regional Coordinator of the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW), where she strengthened solidarity among sex worker-led organisations, designed training-of-trainers programmes, and represented the movement in international policy and advocacy platforms. Her leadership at APNSW contributed to advancing rights-based HIV programming, organisational sustainability, and regional collaboration across diverse contexts.
Sherry also contributes to knowledge production through academic collaborations. She co-authored the 2025 peer-reviewed article “Stigma, discrimination, and resilience among transgender sex workers in Singapore” in Culture, Health & Sexuality, among other community-based research projects that centre lived experience as critical evidence for policy and practice.
Her work reflects the intersections of gender identity, faith, motherhood, and activism, and she continues to amplify sex workers’ voices in global movements for human rights, health, and dignity.
