Working it : sex workers on the work of sex / edited by Matilda Bickers ; with peech breshears and Janis Luna ; foreword by Molly Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bickers, Matilda, editor.

breshears, peech, editor, contributor.

Luna, Janis, editor, contributor.

Smith, Molly (Sex worker), writer of foreword.

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex workers--Social conditions.

Sex workers.

Sex workers--Anecdotes.

Sex work.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Essays.

Interviews.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Sex workers on the work of sex

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM, [2023]

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781629639918

1629639915

OCLC:

1375115919

Publisher Number:

99995722228