| Description |
xv, 221 pages : illustrations; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Matilda Bickers with Melissa Ditmore -- Life at the margins: a roadmap for the revolution / Leila Raven -- Adrie Rose -- The monotony of sex work / Sarah -- Sage -- White supremacy in organizing / Domino Rey -- Camille -- Waiting to be rescued from my office job / Emily Dall'Ora Warfield -- The high cost of cheap labor / Melissa Ditmore -- Jelena Vermilion -- Cyntoia Brown and my black body / Naomi -- Manon -- What would you say to other girls who are considering it? / Stephanie Kaylor -- How I ended up being a social worker at the Veterans Administration / a conversation with Eden -- What did sex work take from you--and how can you get it back? / peech breshears -- First, last, my only / xaxum omer -- Respectability politics by any other name: sex work, sports, service, and therapy / Janis Luna -- Beyondeep -- El cerrito / Nick Lovett -- 6 gifts you can ask your sugar daddy for that won't destroy his sense of your "quirk" as unthreatening sexual garnish and that won't make you feel like you have turned into a cartoon glyph with tits animated by the dispossessed spirit of capitalist alienation / Cisqo Thyme -- I don't consent to enthusiastic consent / Phoenix Calida -- When my mom found My Craigslist ad / Alyssa Pariah -- Crystal Kimewon -- Letter from a social worker / Aubrey -- Monty monster slayer -- Intimate labor / Matilda Bickers -- Janis Luna -- 1099 Problems / Susan Elizabeth Shepard -- Metatopia: imagination beyond dystopia / Dee Lucas -- About the contributors. |
| Summary |
"Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those who have traded sex; among them a brothel worker in Australia, First Nation survivors of the Canadian child welfare system, and an Afro-Latina single parent raising a radicalized child. Packed with first-person essays, interviews, poetry, artwork, and photographs Working It honors the complexity of lived experience. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hardboiled, these dazzling pieces will go straight to the heart."--Page [4] of Cover. |
| Subject |
Sex workers -- Social conditions.
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Sex workers -- Anecdotes.
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Sex work.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Interviews.
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Essays.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Bickers, Matilda, editor.
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breshears, peech, editor, contributor.
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Luna, Janis, editor, contributor.
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Smith, Molly (Sex worker), author of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Sex workers on the work of sex |
| ISBN |
9781629639918 |
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1629639915 |
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