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A review by bashsbooks
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival by Natalie West, Tina Horn
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
A must-read by anyone who supports the #MeToo movement, We Too collects the stories of a group often cast aside or maligned by mainstream feminism - sex workers of all types, across race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability. In these essays, they tackle the issues that feed into the assaults of sex workers - social stigmas, the tensions between sex workers and the US government, the complicated happenings within their workplaces, their relationships with families both found and birth, and their fights for survival and healing. Several of these essays were absolutely revolutionary to me - from discussions of sex work during the pandemic to the uneasy concept many of us have of what constitutes sexual assault. My favorites were: "Your Mother Is a Whore: On Sex Work and Motherhood" by Jessie Sage, "How to Not Be an Asshole When Your Sex Worker Partner Is Assaulted at Work" by Maggie McMuffin, "Undercover Agents" by Norma Jean Almodovar, "The New Orleans Police Raid That Launched a Dancer Resistance" by Melissa Gira Grant, "What Media Coverage of James Deen's Assaults Means for Sex Workers," by Cyd Nova, "Are You Safe?" by Reese Piper, "When She Says Woman, She Does Not Mean Me," by Lorelei Lee, "Going from Homeless Trans Youth to Holistic Caregiver" by Ceyenne Doroshow with Zackary Drucker, and "We All Deserve to Heal" by Yin Q.
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic
-Whorephobia