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We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival by Natalie West

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witwickan's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring

4.0

This is one of the only anthologies I've read where I didn't have to skip half the chapters. The vast majority of it is really great and illuminating and while I'm not a sex worker I am a queer traumatized slut and a lot of these chapters felt really empowering.

I do take issue with what I felt was tokenization of transfem sex workers while not including many of them and iirc only having one masc writer. There are a ton of nonbinary writers which I really appreciated but the vast majority of them were fem(me) and not transfem.

Overall I would really recommend this book and I genuinely loved it. I learned so much and it's a new favorite. It's just somewhat limited in its scope.

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babyhairs's review

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense

5.0


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atlasceramics's review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

One of the best books I’ve read in a while. The authors complicate and expand the reader’s understanding of Sex Work.

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whentheresteeth's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I have highlighted so many passages from this book. I found most of the essays in it brilliant and it was such a combination of different perspectives that it never felt tiring. Sex workers are absolutely a major part of #MeToo and this book was a great resource for being able to articulate why. I would recommend it to any feminist, and especially those looking for an easy-to-read book on sex work, and how it relates to #MeToo as well as other issues such as decriminalization and trafficking. 

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