Feminist Frictions:
Sex Work

Digital Archive:
Sex Work

Accompanying Siobhan Brooks’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Innocent White Victims and Fallen Black Girls: Race, Sex Work, and the Limits of Anti-Sex Trafficking Laws“

Other Digital Archive Page:

Sex Trafficking

General Overviews and Histories

Articles

Laura María Agustín. “New Research Directions: the Cultural Study of Commercial Sex.” Sexualities vol. 8, no. 5 (2005): 618-631.

Adrienne D. Davis, “Regulating Sex Work: Assimilationism, Erotic Exceptionalism and the Challenge of Intimate Labor“, 103 California Law Review 1195 (2015).

Brooke Meredith Beloso, “Sex, Work, and the Feminist Erasure of Class.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 38, no. 1 (2012): 47-70.

Elizabeth Bernstein. “The Meaning of the Purchase: Desire, Demand, and the Commerce of Sex.” Ethnography vol. 2, no. 3 (2001): 375-406.

Elizabeth Bernstein. “Sex Work for the Middle Classes.” Sexualities, vol. 10, no. 4 (2007): 473-488.

Elizabeth Bernstein. “Buying and Selling the ‘Girlfriend Experience’: The Social and Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy,” in Mark Padilla and Richard Parker et. al., eds., Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.

Sherronda J. Brown. “The Insidious Link Between Incels, Serial Killers and Their Targeting of Sex Workers.” Wear Your Voice. November 20, 2018.

Rosie Campbell and Hilary Kinnell. ““We Shouldn’t Have to Put Up with This”: Street Sex Work and Violence.” Criminal Justice Matters, no. 1 (2000): 12-13.

Diane Crocker. “‘I Just Call It Work’: Sex Workers Tell Their Stories in Corner Brook Art Exhibit.” Journal Pioneer. Aug 27, 2019.

Juniper Fitzgerald. “What It’s Like Being a Mom and a Sex Worker.” Vice. May 11 2018.

Sabine Grenz, “Intersections of Sex and Power in Research on Prostitution: A Female Researcher Interviewing Male Heterosexual Clients,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 30, no. 4 (Summer 2005): 2091-2113.

Melanie Heath, Jessica Braimoh, and Julie Gouweloos,”Judging Women’s Sexual Agency: Contemporary Sex Wars in the Legal Terrain of Prostitution and Polygamy,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 42, no. 1 (Autumn 2016): 199-225.

Sharon S. Oselin. “You Catch More Flies With Honey: Sex Work, Violence, and Masculinity on the Streets.” Sociological Forum vol. 31, no. 1, (2016): 203-222.

Melissa Petro. “Life After Sex Work.” The Daily Beast. 17 December 2012.

Melissa Petro. “Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker.” The Huffington Post. 7 September 2010.

Siouxise Q. “Confessions of an American Whore: Sex Work Holds a Mirror Up to S.F.’s Hidden Kinks and Communities.” SF Weekly News. Jan 29 2014.

Teela Sanders. “‘It’s Just Acting’: Sex Workers’ Strategies for Capitalizing on Sexuality.” Gender, Work & Organization vol. 12, no. 4 (2005): 319-42.

Teela Sanders. “The Risks of Street Prostitution: Punters, Police and Protesters.” In Feminist Theories of Crime. London: Routledge, 2017.

Teela Sanders. “Inevitably Violent? Dynamics of Space, Governance, and Stigma in Understanding Violence Against Sex Workers.” In Special Issue: Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship, Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016.

Meera Senthilingam. “’I Love Sex. I Like to Make Money’: What Sex Workers Really Want.” CNN. February 8, 2019.

Meena Seshu and Shohini Ghosh. “Shades of Grey: Selling Sex–work, business, or a profession?” Talking about reproductive and sexual health issues (TARSHI). 2008.

Cosima Smith. “Navigating Fetishism as a Queer, Non-Binary, Black Sex Worker.” Wear Your Voice. September 18, 2019.

Suprihmbé. “Black and Brown Sex Workers Keep Getting Pushed to the Margins.” Wear Your Voice. November 29, 2018.

Ronald Weitzer. “Sociology of Sex Work.” Annual Review of Sociology vol. 35 (2009): 213-234.

Noah D. Zatz,”Sex Work/Sex Act: Law, Labor, and Desire in Constructions of Prostitution,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 22, no. 2 (Winter, 1997): 277-308.

Books

Laura María Agustín, Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry. London and New York: Zed Books, 2007.

Elizabeth Bernstein. Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Wendy Chapkis. Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Melinda Chateauvert. Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.

Julia O’Connell Davidson. Prostitution, Power and Freedom. University of Michigan Press. 1998.

Lola Davina. Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry Book. Oakland: The Erotic as Power Press, 2017.

Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme. Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019.

Edited by Frédérique Delacoste. Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry. San Francisco: Cleis Press Start, 2018.

Melissa Hope Ditmore. Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006.

Edited by Melissa Hope Ditmore, Antonia Levy, and Alys Willman. Sex work matters: Exploring money, power, and intimacy in the sex industry. London and New York: Zed Book, 2013.

Melissa Gira Grant. Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. London and New York: Verso, 2014.

Jeffreys, Sheila. The Idea of Prostitution. Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 2009.

Edited by Kay Kassirer. A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers. Portland: Thorntree, 2019.

Jill Nagle. Whores and Other Feminists. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Edited by Caroline Norma and Reist, Melinda. Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade. Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 2016.

Colette Parent. Sex Work: Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013.

Teela Sanders. Sex Work. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Molly Smith and Juno Mac. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights. London and New York: Verso, 2018.

Carole S. Vance, ed. Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Vol. 198. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.

Nicholas De Villiers. Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Histories of Sex Work

James A. Brundage, “Prostitution in the Medieval Canon Law,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 1, no. 4 (Summer, 1976): 825-845.

Susan Dewey. “‘I’ve Got to Make My Livin’ ‘: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History, vol. 10 no. 1 (2013): 136–138.

Brian Donovan. White Slave Crusades: Race Gender, and Anti-Vice Activism, 1887–1917. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

LaShawn Harris. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Marilynn Wood Hill. Their Sisters’ Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Lucie Cheng Hirata, “Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 5, no. 1 (Autumn, 1979): 3-29.

Barbara Meil Hobson. Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Gerda Lerner,“The Origin of Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 11, no. 2 (Winter, 1986): 236-254.

Ruth Rosen. The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

A. Stein. The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights. Boston: Beacon. 2002.

Judith R. Walkowitz, “The Politics of Prostitution,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 6, no. 1 (Autumn, 1980): 123-135.

Industry Studies

Bernadette Barton. Stripped : Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Siobhan Brooks. Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry. Albany: State of New York University Press, 2010.

Sheila Jeffreys, “Keeping Women Down and Out: The Strip Club Boom and the Reinforcement of Male Dominance,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 34, no. 1 (Autumn 2008): 151-173.

Angela Jones, ““I Get Paid to Have Orgasms”: Adult Webcam Models’ Negotiation of Pleasure and Danger,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 42, no. 1 (Autumn 2016): 227-256.

Kim Price-Glynn. Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work. Vol. 7. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Red Canary Song, “The Massage Parlor Means Survival Here: Red Canary Song On Robert Kraft.” Tits and Sass, April 11 2019.

Karmenife X. “Karmenife X On Healing Through Being a Dominatrix and Subverting White Supremacy.” Wear Your Voice. September 10, 2019.

Scarlet Road. Directed by Catherine Scott. Australia, 2011.

Siouxsie Q. The Whorecast.

Transnational Studies

Anna Agathangelou. The Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence, And Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Anne Allison. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Ambar Basu. “Reba and Her Insurgent Prose: Sex Work, HIV/AIDS, and Subaltern Narratives.” Qualitative Health Research, vol. 27, no. 10 (2017): 1507–1517.

Denise Brennan. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Amalia L. Cabezas, “Between Love and Money: Sex, Tourism, and Citizenship in Cuba and the Dominican Republic,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 29, no. 4 (Summer 2004): 987-1015.

Amalia L. Cabezas. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.

Debra A. Castillo and Bonnie Delgado, “Border Lives: Prostitute Women in Tijuana,“ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 24, no. 2 (Winter, 1999): 387-422.

Christine BN Chin. Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Anna-Louise Crago, ““Bitches Killing the Nation”: Analyzing the Violent State-Sponsored Repression of Sex Workers in Zambia, 2004–2008,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 39, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 365-381.

Susan Dewey, and Patty Kelly, eds. Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Kimberly Kay Hoang. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.

Kimberly K Hoang. ““She’s Not a Low-Class Dirty Girl!”: Sex Work in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography vol. 40, no. 4 (2011): 367-396.

Maria Cecilia Hwang, “Gendered Border Regimes and Displacements: The Case of Filipina Sex Workers in Asia,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 43, no. 3 (Spring 2018): 515-537.

Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, eds. Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Abel Kapodogo, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Nelson Muparamoto. “Sex Work-Based Livelihoods in Post 2000 in Zimbabwe“. Africa Review vol. 11 no. 2, (2019): 137-151.

Prabha Kotiswaran. Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India.Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2011.

Krista Geneviève Lynes, “Visual Currencies: Documenting India’s Red-Light Districts,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 37, no. 1 (Autumn 2011): 109-132.

Chi Adanna Mgbako, To Live Freely in this World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa. New York: New York University Press, 2016.

Nils Johan Ringdal. Love for Sale: A World History of Prostitution. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2007.

Megan Rivers-Moore, “We Fight with God’s Weapons: Sex Work and Pragmatic Penance in Neoliberal Costa Rica,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 43, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 851-876.

Louise Settle. Sex for Sale in Scotland : Prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1900-1939, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Svati P. Shah. Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Maite Verhoeven, Barbra van Gestel. “Between Visibility and Invisibility: Sex Workers and Informal Services in Amsterdam“. Feminist Economics vol. 23 no. 3, (2017): 110-133.

Gowri Vijayakumar. “Is Sex Work Sex or Work? Forming Collective Identity in Bangalore.” Qualitative Sociology vol. 41 no. 3 (2018): 337-360.

Judith Walkowitz. Prostitution in Victorian Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982.

Kimberly Walters, “The Stickiness of Sex Work: Pleasure, Habit, and Intersubstantiality in South India,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 1 (Autumn 2016): 99-121.

Holly Wardlow, “Anger, Economy, and Female Agency: Problematizing ‘Prostitution’ and ‘Sex Work’ among the Huli of Papua New Guinea,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29, no. 4 (Summer 2004): 1017-1040.

Tiantian Zheng. Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Queer Sex Work

Books

Edited by Peter Aggleton. Men Who Sell Sex: International Perspectives on Male Prostitution and HIV/AIDS. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.

Tyler Frederick.”Diversity at the Margins: The Interconnections Between Homelessness, Sex Work, Mental Health, and Substance Use in the Lives of Sexual Minority Homeless Young People.” Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice. Albany: Springer, 2014: 473-501.

Edited by Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher, and Nicola Smith. Queer Sex Work. London; New York: Routledge, 2015.

Larry A. Nuttbrock. Transgender Sex Work and Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

Kevin Walby. Touching Encounters: Sex, Work, and Male-For-Male Internet Escorting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Articles

Brooke M. Beloso. “Queer Theory, Sex Work, and Foucault’s Unreason.” Foucault Studies vol. 23 (2017): 141.

Austin Bryan. “Kuchu Activism, Queer Sex-Work and ‘Lavender Marriages,’ in Uganda’s Virtual LGBT Safe(r) Spaces.” Journal of Eastern African Studies vol. 13 no. 1 (2018): 90-105.

AJ Cahill, “The Difference Sameness Makes: Objectification, Sex Work, and Queerness.” Hypatia vol. 29 no. 4 (2014): 840-856.

Joseph RG DeMarco. “Power and control in gay strip clubs.” Journal of homosexuality vol. 53, no. 1-2 (2007): 111-127.

S. Tay Glover and Julian Kevon Glover. ““She Ate My Ass and My Pussy All Night”: Deploying Illicit Eroticism, Funk, and Sex Work among Black Queer Women Femmes.” American Quarterly vol. 71, no. 1 (2019): 171-177.

Sarah Hankins, ““I’m a Cross between a Clown, a Stripper, and a Streetwalker”: Drag Tipping, Sex Work, and a Queer Sociosexual Economy,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 40, no. 2 (Winter 2015): 441-466.

Carlo D’Ippoliti, Fabrizio Botti. “Sex Work among Trans People: Evidence from Southern Italy“. Feminist Economics vol. 23, no. 3 (2017): 77-109.

Kevin L. Nadal, Kristin C. Davidoff, and Whitney Fujii-Doe. “Transgender women and the sex work industry: Roots in systemic, institutional, and interpersonal discrimination.” Journal of Trauma & Dissociation vol. 15, no. 2 (2014): 169-183.

Premala Matthen, Tara Lyons, Matthew Taylor, James Jennex, Solanna Anderson, Jody Jollimore, Kate Shannon. “I Walked into the Industry for Survival and Came Out of a Closet”. Men and Masculinities 21 no. 4 (2018): 479-500.

Lydia A. Sausa, JoAnne Keatley, and Don Operario. “Perceived risks and benefits of sex work among transgender women of color in San Francisco.” Archives of Sexual Behavior vol. 36, no. 6 (2007): 768-777.

Nicola J Smith and Mary Laing. “Introduction: Working Outside the (Hetero)Norm? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Sex Work.” Sexualities vol. 15, no. 5–6 (September 2012): 517–20.

Nicola Smith. “Body Issues: The Political Economy of Male Sex Work.” Sexualities vol. 15, no. 5–6 (September 2012): 586–603.

Corrinne Sullivan, and Madi Day. “Indigenous Transmasculine Australians & Sex Work.” Emotion, Space and Society vol. 32 (2019): 100591.

Deena Varner. “A Communitas of Hustle and the Queer Logic of Inmate Sex (Anti) Work.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 39 no. 3 (2018): 208-240.

Report

Erin Fitzgerald, Sarah Elspeth Patterson, Darby Hickey, Cherno Biko, and Harper Jean Tobin. Meaningful work: Transgender experiences in the sex trade. National Center for Transgender Equality, 2015.

From “Meaningful Work“

Policy and Legal Debates

Books

Alison Bass. Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2015.

Edited by Elizabeth Bernstein and Laurie Schaffner. Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.

Elya M. Durisin, Emily Van der Meulen, and Chris Bruckert, eds. Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018.

R. Lancaster, Sex Panic and the Punitive State. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2011.

Samantha Majic, Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Gail Pheterson. A Vindication of the Rights of Whores. Seattle: Seal Press, 1989.

Teela Sanders, Maggie O’Neill, and Jane Pitcher. Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics. Los Angeles: Sage, 2017.

Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic, eds. Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism. ‎Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Carisa Renae Showden and Samantha Majic. Youth Who Trade Sex in the US: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018.

May-Len Skilbrei and Charlotta Holmström. Prostitution Policy in the Nordic Region: Ambiguous Sympathies. New York and London: Routledge, 2016.

Ronald Weitzer, Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Debating the Nordic Model

“The Human Cost of Crushing’ the Market: Criminalization of Sex Work in Norway.” Amnesty International. 23 May 2016. Index number: EUR 36/4130/2016.

Roxana Baratosy and Sarah Wendt. “Outdated Laws, Outspoken Whores”: Exploring sex work in a criminalised setting,“ Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 62 (2017): 34-42.

Sean Bell, “‘Centre the Voices of Sex Workers’: Holyrood ‘Nordic Model’ Advocacy Sparks New Call to Reject ‘Sex Buyer Laws’”. Commonspace. June 6, 2019.

Barbara G. Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck. “State-sanctioned Sex: Negotiating Formal and Informal Regulatory Practices In Nevada Brothels.” Sociological Perspectives vol. 44, no. 3 (2001): 307-32.

S. Chu. “Sex Work Law Reform in Canada: Considering Problems with the Nordic Model.” Alberta Law Review, vol. 51, no. 1 (2013): 101-24.

Julia O’Connell Davidson. “‘Sleeping with the enemy’? Some Problems with Feminist Abolitionist Calls to Penalise those who Buy Commercial Sex.” Social Policy and Society vol. 2, no. 1 (2003): 55-63.

Harriet Evans, Richard Byng, Lynne Callaghan, and Anna Fisher. “Sweden Shows How the Nordic Model Could Improve Women’s Wellbeing and Create a Better Society.” BMJ vol. 362 (2018): K3629.

Melissa Gira Grant, “Amnesty International Calls for an End to the ‘Nordic Model’ of Criminalizing Sex Workers.” The Nation. May 26, 2016.

Sofia Jonsson and Jakobsson, Niklas. “Is buying sex morally wrong? Comparing attitudes toward prostitution using individual-level data across eight Western European countries.” Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 61 (2017): 58-69.

Michelle Keep, “Capitalism, Feminism, and Sex Work.” The Independent. September 6, 2016.

Sarah Kingston and Terry Thomas. “No Model in Practice: A ‘Nordic Model’ to Respond to Prostitution?” Crime, Law and Social Change vol. 71, no. 4 (2019): 423-39.

Alexandra Lutnick and Deborah Cohan. “Criminalization, Legalization or Decriminalization of Sex Work: What Female Sex Workers Say in San Francisco, USA.” Reproductive Health Matters vol. 17, no. 34 (2009): 38-46.

Jamie Mann, “Calls to Reject ‘Nordic model’ of Sex Trade Laws After Increased Violence.” The Nation. 21st April 2018.

Cas Mudde, “The Paternalistic Fallacy of the ‘Nordic Model’ of Prostitution.” The Huffington Post. Dec 6, 2017.

Alexandria Topping, “UK Urged to Follow Nordic Model of Criminalising Prostitution Clients.” The Guardian. 11th October 2013.

Molly Smith, “Feminists, If You Support the ‘Nordic’ Approach to Sex Work, You’re Co-Signing the Imprisonment of Women.” Independent. 11 June 2019.

Molly Smith. “The Problem With the “Swedish Model” for Sex Work Laws.” The New Republic. June 8, 2015.

L. Vogel. “Prostitution Laws failing Sex Workers: CPHA.” Canadian Medical Association Journal vol. 187, no. 2 (2015): 4.

Lauren Walker, “Decriminalizing Sex Work Is a Matter of Survival.” TruthOut. March 2, 2019.

Articles

Gillian Abel. “The Problem with Sex Work Policies.” Archives of Sexual Behavior vol. 48 no. 7 (2019): 1925-1929.

Lori Adorable. “What Antis Can Do To Help, Part One: Aiding Those Still in the Industry.” Tits and Sass. March 19 2013.

Aziza Ahmed. “Criminal Laws on Sex Work and HIV: A Mapping,” Denver University Law Review vol 93, no. 355 (2016).

Aziza Ahmed, Margo Kaplan, Alison Symington, Eszter Kismodi. “Criminalising consensual sexual behaviour in the context of HIV: Consequences, evidence, and leadership“. Global Public Health vol. 6 no. 3, (2011): 357-S369.

Aziza Ahmed, “Think Again: Prostitution,” Foreign Policy Magazine, January 19, 2014.

Aziza Ahmed, “USAID v. AOSI: A Victory for Sex Workers and Feminist Allies,”The Huffington Post, June 25, 2013.

Bobby Allyn, “Cyntoia Brown Released After 15 Years In Prison For Murder.” National Public Radio. August 7, 2019.

Bridget Bennett. “’There Is a Lot of Fight We Still Have to Fight’: Voices from the Sex Workers’ March.” Vice. Jun 4 2018.

Juno Mac, “The Laws that Sex Workers Really Want.” TED. YouTube video. Posted June 13, 2016.

From @DecrimNowDC

Julie Bindel, “Prostitution is Not a Job.” The Guardian. 30 April 2018.

Julie Bindel, “Why Prostitution Should Never Be Legalised.” The Guardian. 11 October 2017.

Julie Bindel, “Interview with Sabrinna Valisce: My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation.” BBC News. 2 October 2017.

Elizabeth Brown, “The Regressiveness of Officer Kamala. How the California Senator’s Sex Work Record Could Prove a Stumbling Block.” Spectator USA. August 5th, 2019.

Helen Coffey, “Amsterdam’s First Female Mayor Set to End Red Light District ‘Human Window Displays’,” The Independent. July 4th, 2019.

Matt Cohen, “How Decriminalizing Sex Work Became a 2020 Campaign Issue.” Mother Jones. July 5, 2019.

T Compres. “Labor of Love: Using International Labor Law to Achieve Human Rights for Women Sex Workers in the Dominican Republic.” Georgetown Journal of International Law 40, no. 3 (2009): 1027-068.

Mankaprr Conteh, “How Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s Family, the House of Xtravaganza, and Activists Are Mourning and Organizing a Month After Her Death.” Vogue. July 12th, 2019.

Bryce Covert, “The Fight for Decriminalizing Sex Work Is About Justice.” ReWire. July 15th, 2019.

Katie Cruz. “The Future of Sex Work: Labour unfreedom & Criminality at work.” Critical Legal Thinking. 19 June 2019.

Melissa Farley, Jacqueline Lynne, and Ann J. Cotton. “Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women.” Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 2 (June 2005): 242–71.

Jamine Garsd, “Should Sex Work Be Decriminalized? Some Activists Say It’s Time.” National Public Radio: All Things Considered. March 22, 2019.

Amelia Gentleman. “Interview with Laura Lee: ‘It’s now far more difficult to stay safe,” The Guardian, February 5, 2016.

Mirna Guha,“Dynamic Lives, Dynamic Identities: Representing Agency and Victimhood Within the Lives of Women in Sex Work.” The Sociological Review. August 7, 2019.

Jennifer Hankel, Kyria Brown, Susan Dewey, Caroline McKinnon. “The Difference a Job Makes: Licit and Illicit Work Experiences and Aspirations at a Transitional Housing Facility for Women Leaving the Sex Industry.” Women & Criminal Justice vol. 29 no. 2 (2019): 98-111.

Phoebe Judge, Interview with Cecilia Gentili. “Cecilia”. Criminal. Podcast audio, May 24, 2019.

Phoebe Judge, Interview with “Jessica” and Alice Little. “Jessica and the Bunny Ranch”. Criminal. Podcast audio, June 7, 2019.

Karni Kissil, and Maureen Davey. “The Prostitution Debate in Feminism: Current Trends, Policy and Clinical Issues Facing an Invisible Population.” Journal of Feminist Family Therapy vol. 22, no. 1 (2010): 1-21.

Sarah Lynch, “Backpage.com Founders, Others Indicted on Prostitution-Related Charges.” Reuters. April 9, 2018.

Juno Mac, “The Laws that Sex Workers Really Want.” TED. YouTube video. June 13, 2016.

Samantha Majic. “Serving Sex Workers and Promoting Democratic Engagement: Rethinking Nonprofits’ Role in American Civic and Political Life.” Perspectives on Politics vol. 9 no. 4 (2011): 821-839.

Samantha Majic. “‘I’m Just a Woman. But I’ve Never Been a Victim’: Re-conceptualizing Prostitution Policy through Individual Narratives. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy vol. 36, no. 4 (2015): 365-387.

Samantha Majic. “Implementing ‘New’ Norms? Examining ‘John School’ Policies in the United States.” Critical Policy Studies vol. 9, no. 3 (2015): 278-296.

Jody Miller and Kristin Carbone-Lopez, “Gendered Carceral Regimes in Sri Lanka: Colonial Laws, Postcolonial Practices, and the Social Control of Sex Workers,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 39, no. 1 (Autumn 2013): 79-103.

Erica Moen. “Feminists Should Support Decriminalizing Sex Work. Here’s Why.” The Nib, July 18, 2018.

Mary Emily O’Hara. “Why Carrying Condoms in NYC Might Get You Arrested,” Vice, May 1, 2014.

Sharon S Oselin and Ronald Weitzer. “Organizations Working on Behalf of Prostitutes: An Analysis of Goals, Practices, and Strategies.” Sexualities vol. 16, no. 3–4 (June 2013): 445–66.

Christine Overall, “What’s Wrong with Prostitution? Evaluating Sex Work,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 17, no. 4 (Summer, 1992): 705-724.

Che Post, Jan G. Brouwer, Michel Vols. Regulation of Prostitution in the Netherlands: Liberal Dream or Growing Repression?. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research vol. 25, no. 2, (2019): 99-118.

Michael L Rekart. “Sex-Work Harm Reduction.” The Lancet vol. 366, no. 9503 (2005): 2123-2134.

Phineas Rueckert, “AOC Talks Sex Work Decriminalization and Queens DA Race at Elmhurst Market.” Queens Daily Eagle. July 30, 2019.

Teela Sanders, et al. “An Academic Response to ‘Big Brothel’.“ UK Network of Sex Work Projects. October 2008.

Laurie Shrage, “Comment on Overall’s ‘What’s Wrong with Prostitution? Evaluating Sex Work’,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 19, no. 2 (Winter, 1994): 564-570.