A review by beansandrice
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith, Juno Mac

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book has become the foundation for my feminist politics, my queer politics, my labor politics, my immigration politics, and so much more. Revolting Prostitutes swings hard with both theory and grounded real-life analysis, and may be one of the most profound political texts written in this generation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Deportation, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Homophobia, Ableism, Biphobia, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

This book is a thousand things, but at its foundations it's a book about the terrible things that happen to sex workers. It treats all graphic content with the respect and dignity it deserves, and discusses this heavy reality as a way to build to a more liberatory politics. That said, it's still a heavy read.