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OnlyBans Allows Users to Understand the Realities of Digital Sex Work

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

A new game developed by artist and sex worker Lena Chen and tech collaborator Maggie Oates helps players learn about the challenges facing online sex workers.

Posted inFilm

Films to Watch on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Return to Japanese Rule

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 18, 2022May 19, 2022

From 1968 to 1973, the Nihon Documentarist Union did radical documentary work in Japan. They made two films in Okinawa before, during, and after its reversion.

Posted inFilm

In Working Girls, Sex Work Is Another Everyday 9–5

by Jourdain Searles June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

A restoration of Lizzie Borden’s landmark 1986 portrait of sex and labor is coming to theaters.

Posted inFilm

How Camming and Filmmaking Influence Each Other

by Becca Willow Moss March 14, 2021March 14, 2021

Becca Willow Moss muses on how her work as a camgirl informs her work as an actor and director.

Posted inFilm

A Dynamic Portrait of Sex Workers Channels Suppressed Rage to Cathartic Ends

Avatar photo by Ren Scateni July 23, 2020November 5, 2020

Now streaming as part of JAPAN CUTS, Kana Yamada’s Life: Untitled features a wealth of skillfully written characters attuned to Japan’s contemporary social dysfunctions.

Posted inArt

Artists Remind Us that Sex Work Is Work

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell March 10, 2020March 10, 2020

The Sex Workers’ Pop-Up brings together installations, performances, and conversations from an exciting group of international artists, many of whom are or were sex workers themselves.

Posted inArt

A Conversation About Sex Work in the Art World

by Matt Stromberg February 26, 2020

Artists and sex workers will offer their insights at Public School Los Angeles.

Posted inArt

In Portland, An Annual Exhibition by and for Sex Workers

by Lindsay Costello November 26, 2019November 27, 2019

By amplifying the voices of those directly affected by the dehumanization and criminalization of sex work, No Human Involved has built a successful platform that highlights and challenges these intersections of oppression.

Posted inOpinion

A Performa Production Co-opted the Story of a Sex Worker

by KK de La Vida and Banyi Huang November 25, 2019

Without speaking with or even acknowledging the existence of critical members of the sex worker community, Performa has ultimately appropriated migrant sex worker organizing.

Posted inBooks

A Former Cam Model Reveals How Desire Can Be Both Liberating and Confining

by Justine Smith November 15, 2019

In her new memoir Camgirl, screenwriter Isa Mazzei joins the long tradition of women who use the personal to explore and deconstruct sex and culture.

Posted inArt

A Deliciously Transgressive and Strikingly Vulnerable Ode to Queer Sex Work

by Cassie Packard November 4, 2019April 6, 2021

Declaring a pro-sex, pro-porn stance off the bat, On Our Backs presents diverse notions of intimacy, in sex work and the communal art and advocacy that spring from it.

Posted inArt

A Former Webcam Model Writes a Horror Movie Based on Her Experiences

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 12, 2018November 15, 2019

When Isa Mazzei set out to write the screenplay for Cam, she wanted to “create a film where an audience would empathize with a sex worker.”

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