Phoenix Calida on the Black Lives Matter protests, how over-policing disproportionality impacts Black sex workers, and what allies can do to help bring about racial justice.
International Whores’ Day – NYC Digital Rally
To mark the 45th anniversary of International Whores’ Day (IWD), NYC-based sex worker rights activists are staging an online rally and social media takeover on June 2, 2020, honoring the global protests taking place annually. The IWD NYC Digital Rally is a celebration of the resilience of sex working communities and a call to action in their fight for human rights.
Episode 54: Allie Eve Knox and Kiara Sky on Tech, Sex Work, and Payment Processing in the Adult Industry
In Episode 54 we talk to content creators and fetish performers Allie Eve Knox and Kiara Skye about the intersection of the tech industry and sex work, and why crypto may offer solutions to many of the payment processing issues faced by the adult industry.
Episode 53: Consent and Sexualized Leisure at AVN
In Episode 53 we bring you a recording from the panel Consent and Sexualized Leisure at AVN. Lynn Comella moderates this discussion about how consent is negotiated on the showroom floor with performers Katy Jayne and jessica drake, and scholars Barb Brents and Paul Maginn.
Episode 52: 16 Sex Workers Talk Life and Work During a Pandemic
This is a special COVID-19 episode featuring 16 different sex workers’ stories about their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. They share a range of experience, emotions, and wisdom.
Episode 51: Cindy Gallop on Sex Tech Innovation and the Value of Labor
Episode 51 features an interview with Cindy Gallop, CEO of Make Love Not Porn, a site devoted to social sexuality. We discuss how COVID-19 is spurring sextech innovation and highlighting how carework has been undervalued. We also discuss the relaunch of Make Love Not Porn.
Additionally, we talk about the first Women of Sex Tech Virtual Conference, where Cindy Gallop and Jessie Sage were both speakers.
Episode 50: Ashley Fires, Princess Dandy, and Alex More at Woodhull
This episode is a bit of a time capsule, going all the way back to the fall of 2019, before our personal lives were uprooted by cancer and the rest of the world was disrupted by COVID-19. Wow, does that seem like a lifetime ago?!
Episode 49: Sex Work and Family
In Episode 49 we focus on family and sexuality. We talk to sex workers and parents Kym Cutter and Natalie Brewster Nguyen about raising kids in community with other sex workers. We also interview Elizabeth Ann Wood, author of Bound: A Daughter, a Domme, and an End-of-Life Story, about caring for her dominatrix mother at the end of her mother’s life.
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