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casually_literate's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Grant's writing is captivating, witty, and intentional. This book is a quick read but it'll have you reeling. If this is a new topic you may need to take a break after a chapter or two to digest the content. There's a lot of incredibly important and insightful information in this book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Classism, Homophobia, Trafficking, Transphobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Violence
dominic_t's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
4.75
This was an incredible book! It's a great introduction to the sex workers' movement. She had some absolutely piercing insights that really got me thinking. Like for instance, she talks about how sex workers are pushed to tell stories of their work to people in "allied" movements, and that storytelling itself becomes another form of erotic labor demanded of sex workers. She also talks about how "whore stigma" goes beyond stigma against sex workers; it exists as a form of stigma that punishes some women for being "unvirtuous." This can be levied against sex workers, but it is also applied to LGBTQ people, women of color, and women living in poverty.
Some of her sentences and passages were a bit hard to parse. That's the only issue I had, and it didn't happen too often.
Some of her sentences and passages were a bit hard to parse. That's the only issue I had, and it didn't happen too often.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Police brutality, and Violence
Minor: Sexual content
nicnevin's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
A brief treatise on the challenges faced by sex workers and the groups and institutions that are at the root of the issue. It highlights how sex worker exclusionary feminism fails the women it proclaims to protect and is a searing indicment of how violence against sex workers across the globe are tied intrinsically to police brutality and the violence of capitalism itself, that the supposed routes out of sex work given by NGOs and aid agencies can be worse than what they supposedly aim to protect them from.
A good introduction to leftists looking to learn about sex worker rights.
A good introduction to leftists looking to learn about sex worker rights.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Violence
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