Sex Workers: The Outside/r’s Outsider

Brit Schulte posits that the sex working person is confronted by ever-increasing demand as well proportionately increasing criminalization and persecution. They also see representative of queer trans*-- truly, outsider subjectivity. The tension produced these coextensive increases creates conditions compel an (sex worker) to fight for end stigma marginalization. This necessary struggle they outline takes place in broader movement spaces, grassroots collectives, smaller mutual aid networks, between fellow workers. Their essay highlights experiences within above categories trans* worker-led community organizing, specifically drawing upon full-service worker-run harm reduction formations, tech-centred activism, fetish provider-led collectives. Through personal analysis, links workers' political fights labour justice under capitalism, locating worker organizing our contemporary moment a rich tradition hustle survival.