02 Nov Further Reading on Sex Worker Organizing
As is the care for all episodes of When We Fight, We Win!: The Podcast, the producers of Sex Work Is Work! Did extensive research while preparing to tell this story. Below are the resources, readings, films, and more our co-producers consulted during the making of this show.
RESOURCES:
Sex Worker History & Organizing in Louisiana:
- #DeepSouthDecrim toolkit: https://www.deepsouthdecrim.org/
- Louisiana HB67 Testimonies, May 4, 2021: https://www.house.louisiana.gov/H_Video/VideoArchivePlayer?v=house/2021/may/0504_21_CJ
- Placage and quadroon balls in New Orleans:
- The Sex Workers of Storyville: https://www.hnoc.org/virtual/storyville/sex-workers-storyville
- Crime Against Nature by Solicitation virtual exhibit: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cf4facb7fb5d4cbd9e8e76a9c3f40c56
- Jefferson Parish Sting Operations: https://www.wdsu.com/article/wdsu-investigates-police-are-gradually-changing-tactics-against-sex-trafficking/29863176#
General Reading on Sex Work:
- Playing the Whore, book by Melissa Gira Grant: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1568-playing-the-whore
- Sex Worker well being index (shared with us by Lakeesha Harris): https://lustmag.com/sex-worker-wellbeing-index/?lang=en
- An Interview with Sylvia Federici: https://sur.conectas.org/en/silvia-federici/
- “All the Work We Do As Women” Feminism Manifestos on Prostitution and the State, 1977 https://www.liesjournal.net/volume1-14-prostitution.html
Art & Culture:
- Spirit McIntyre (Music featured in the show): https://spiritmcintyre.bandcamp.com/album/mourning-to-the-moonlight
- The Salt Mines, film (available for free with Library card on kanopy): https://nolalibrary.kanopy.com/product/salt-mines-latina-transwomen-new-york
