Sex Work

12/13/19 - Sex work brings out extreme views. On one end of the dial: "It's purely exploitative and nothing someone could actively consent to!" And on the other: "It's wholly empowering consensual trade that should be celebrated!" We talk with writer and sex worker Lorelei Lee about how sex work can be like other kinds of labor: underpaid, boring, unfulfilling, and yet not necessarily vile criminality or sublimely erotic and expressive. A pair of laws passed by Congress in 2018, SESTA and FOSTA, have made sex work more dangerous and subject to criminal prosecution.

Transcript below.

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Episode Producer: Jordan Bailey

Show Producer: Gina Delvac

Hosts: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Theme song: Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn

Composer: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs.

Visual Creative Director: Kenesha Sneed

Merch Director: Caroline Knowles

Editorial Assistant: Laura Bertocci

Design Assistant: Brijae Morris

Ad sales: Midroll

Image by edkohler

Lorelei Lee’s essay Cash/Consent in n+1

Kamala Harris on CYG

Survivors Against SESTA

Organizations and individuals Lorelei recommends:

HIPS DC DecrimNY Red Canary Song (NYC) Bay Area Workers Support Las Vegas Sex Workers Collective SWOP South Side Chicago supreme bae aka thotscholar Kai Zhang Tamika Spellman TS Candy (nsfw)

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