This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there’s never been a better time to fight for justice.
Responding to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement in 2017, sex workers from across the industry—hookers and prostitutes, strippers and dancers, porn stars, cam models, Dommes and subs alike—complicate narratives of sexual harassment and violence, and expand conversations often limited to normative workplaces.
Writing across topics such as homelessness, motherhood, and toxic masculinity, We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival gives voice to the fight for agency and accountability across sex industries. With a foreword by Selena the Stripper and contributions by leading voices in the movement such as Melissa Gira Grant, Ceyenne Doroshow, Audacia Ray, femi babylon, April Flores, and Yin Q, this anthology explores sex work as work, and sex workers as laboring subjects in need of respect—not rescue.
Your Mother Is a Whore: On Sex Work and Motherhood
Sex Working While Jewish in America
How to Not Be an Asshole When Your Sex Worker Partner Is Assaulted at Work
Victim-Defendant: Women of Color Complicating Stories about Human Trafficking
Context for “Undercover Agents”
The New Orleans Police Raid That Launched a Dancer Resistance
Whores at the End of the World
Dispatch from the California Stripper Strike
What Media Coverage of James Deen’s Assaults Means for Sex Workers
Demystifying Porn, for Pornographers
From Victim to Activist: The Road to Ethical Porn
The Alchemy of Pain: Honoring the Victim-Whore
When She Says Women, She Does Not Mean Me
Wounds and Ways Through: A Personal Chronology of December 17
Going from Homeless Trans Youth to Holistic Caregiver