SELECTED WRITING
Please feel free to email me for copies of published work if you don’t have institutional access.
Editorial Work
“Reading Sex Work,” a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly
On the Sex Worker Left
“‘If You’re Going to Be Beautiful, You Better Be Dangerous’: Sex Worker Community Defense.” Radical History Review.
“The Left Won’t Win If Sex Workers Don’t Too.” Boston Review
“Free Sex,” South Atlantic Quarterly
“‘Today Solidarity Means, Fight Back’: On Militant Care,” Essays in Philosophy
On Labor in the Porn Industry
“Porn Work, Independent Contractor Misclassification, and the Limits of the Law,” Columbia Human Rights Law Review
“Porn, Work, Place: Beyond the (Set) Shop Floor.” in Harvard Design Magazine
“Porn Work, Feminist Critique, and the Market for Authenticity.” Signs
“A Scene is Just a Marketing Tool: Alternative Income Streams in Porn’s Gig Economy.” Porn Studies [Porn and Labour, special issue]
“Intimate Labor in Porn Work.” in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Third Edition
“Workers and Publics.” in Porn Studies
“Laboring Porn Studies.” in Porn Studies
With Constance Penley, “Creative Precarity in the Adult Film Industry." in Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
Other Writing on the Politics of Work
“Reading Gigs Dialectically.” Critical Historical Studies
“Left of #MeToo.” Feminist Studies. Winner, Claire Goldberg Moses Award
“An Honest Day’s Wage for a Dishonest Day’s Work: (Re)Productivism and Refusal.” WSQ [Debt, special issue]
“Working for Love, Loving for Work: Discourses of Labor in Feminist Sex-Work Activism.” Feminist Studies