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