We Too: Essays On Sex Work And Survival
Our December book club starts soon!
In December, the Feminists for Liberty Book Club will be reading We Too — Essays on Sex Work and Survival, a collection of essays edited by Natalie West with Tina Horn.
Our first meeting is December 1 at 8 p.m. EST. We’ll also meet at the same time on Sunday, December 8th and on Sunday, December 15th.
There are a lot of great essays in this book and while we hope you read all of them, we decided that rather than try and discuss all of them in our short time together, we’ll focus on a few essays at each meeting, organized around loose themes.
Reading Agenda
December 1: Vixens or Victims? >> Foreward by Selena the Stripper | Introduction by Natalie West | “Victim-Defendant: Women of Color Complicating Stories About Human Trafficking” by Christa Marie Sacco | “When She Says Women, She Does Not Mean Me” by Lorelei Lee | “The Belly of the Beast” by Lola Davina
December 8: Cops, Consent, Violence >> “The New Orleans Police Raid That Launched a Dancer Resistance” by Melissa Gira Grant | “Context for ‘Undercover Agents’” by Vanessa Carlisle & “Undercover Agents” by Norma Jean Almodovar | “Hustling Survival” by Brit Schulte, Judy Szurgot and Alisha Walker | “Wounds and Ways Through: A Personal Chronology of December 17” by Audacia Ray
December 15: Porn, Power, Stigma >> “Your Mother Is a Whore: On Sex Work & Motherhood” by Jessie Sage | “Demystifying Porn, for Pornographers” by Lina Bembe | “From Victim to Activist: The Road to Ethical Porn” by Hello Rooster | “The Invisibles” by Ignacio G. Hutía Xeiti Rivera | “Going from Homeless Trans Youth to Holistic Caregiver” by Ceyenne Doroshow with Zackary Drucker
Hope to see you on December 1!