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, drawings, mixed-media collage, and photographs Working It honors the complexity of lived experience. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hardboiled, these dazzling pieces will go straight to the heart.
Author(s): Matilda Bickers, peech breshears, Janis Luna
Publisher: PM Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 237
City: Oakland
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Molly Smith
Introduction by Matilda Bickers with Melissa Ditmore
Life at the Margins: A Roadmap for the Revolution by Leila Raven
Adrie Rose
The Monotony of Sex Work by Sarah
Sage
White Supremacy in Organizing by Domino Rey
Camille
Waiting to Be Rescued from My Office Job by Emily Dall’Ora Warfield
The High Cost of Cheap Labor by Melissa Ditmore
Jelena Vermilion
Cyntoia Brown and My Black Body by Naomi
Manon
What Would You Say to Other Girls Who Are Considering It? by 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? by peech breshears
first, last, my only by xaxum omer
Respectability Politics by Any Other Name: Sex Work, Sports, Service, and Therapy by Janis Luna
Beyondeep
El Cerrito by 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 by Cisqo Thyme
I Don’t Consent to Enthusiastic Consent by Phoenix Calida
When My Mom Found My Craigslist Ad by Alyssa Pariah
Crystal Kimewon
Letter from a Social Worker by Aubrey
Monty Monster Slayer
Intimate Labor by Matilda Bickers
Janis Luna
1099 Problems by Susan Elizabeth Shepard
Metatopia: Imagination beyond Dystopia by Dee Lucas
About the Contributors
