I’ve been a sex worker rights activist for going on a decade now, and I’ve lived in New York all that time. My focus in the early years was very local, meaning that I was concerned with what was happening in my own life and the lives of the people I worked with and cared… Continue reading Report From 2011’s Sex Worker Open University
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“There Can’t Be Numbers:” An Interview With Laura Agustín, Part 1
Upon the publication of her book, Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labor Markets and the Rescue Industry, anthropologist Laura Agustín became a hero to many sex worker activists. Her research cuts through the usual moral hysteria and emotionality invoked by the idea of trafficking to radically revise discussions about migration and sexual labor. Both her blog (linked above)… Continue reading “There Can’t Be Numbers:” An Interview With Laura Agustín, Part 1