Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. West, Natalie, 1985-
2. Horn, Tina
3. Selena, the Stripper

Description

1. xv, 309 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival is a collection of narrative essays by sex workers responding to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement in 2017. Sex workers from across the industry write across topics such as homelessness, motherhood, queerness, and toxic masculinity-complicating narratives of sexual harassment and violence, and expanding conversations often limited to normative workplaces."--

Subject

1. Sex workers > United States > Biography
2. Sex workers > United States > Social conditions
3. Sex workers > Civil rights > United States
4. Sex industry > Social aspects > United States
5. Sex industry > Social aspects
6. Sex workers
7. United States

Genre/Form

1. Essays.
2. Biographies.

Contents

1. That sliver of light / Ashley Paige -- Your mother is a whore : on sex work and motherhood / Jessie Sage -- Bifurcating / Juniper Fitzgerald -- Sex working while Jewish in America / Arabelle Raphael -- How to not be an asshole when your sex worker partner is assaulted at work / Maggie McMuffin -- How to rape a sex worker / Ak Saini -- Victim-defendant : women of color complicating stories about human trafficking / Christa Marie Sacco -- Hustling survival / Brit Schulte with Judy Szurgot And Alisha Walker -- Context for "undercover agents" / Vanessa Carlisle -- Undercover agents / Norma Jean Almodovar -- The New Orleans police raid that launched a dancer resistance / Melissa Gira Grant -- Whores at the end of the world / Sonya Aragon -- Dispatch from the California stripper strike / Antonia Crane -- What media coverage of James Deen's assaults means for sex workers / Cyd Nova -- Red flags / Lauren Kiley -- Demystifying porn, for pornographers / Lina Bembe -- From victim to activist : the road to ethical porn / Hello Rooster -- What I have to do / femi babylon (formerly known as suprihmbé) -- Florida water / Rebelle Cunt -- A letter to my love / Milcah Halili and April Flores -- A family affair / Dia Dynasty -- "Are you safe?" / Reese Piper -- Bounded choice / Tina Horn -- The alchemy of pain : honoring the victim-whore / Anonymous -- When she says woman, she does not mean me / Lorelei Lee -- The invisibles / Ignacio G. Hutía Xeiti Rivera -- Wounds and ways through : a personal chronology of December 17 / Audacia Ray -- Going from homeless trans youth to holistic caregiver / Ceyenne Doroshow with Zackary Drucker -- The belly of the beast / Lola Davina -- Searching for foxy / Goddess Cori -- We all deserve to heal / Yin Q -- How to build a hookers army / Vanessa Carlisle.

Call number

1. JFE 21-4709

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. We too : essays on sex work and survival / edited by Natalie West with Tina Horn ; foreword by Selena the Stripper.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Edition

1. First feminist press edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. West, Natalie, 1985- editor.
2. Horn, Tina, editor.
3. Selena, the Stripper, writer of foreword.

Other form:

1. Online version: We too. First Feminist Press edition New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2021 9781558612877 (DLC) 2020036577

LCCN

1. 2020036576

Other standard identifier

1. 40030405248

ISBN

1. 9781558612853 paperback
2. 1558612858 paperback

Research call number

1. JFE 21-4709