Sex Work Archives - Public Seminar

Gender

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

An excerpt from Elena Shih’s probing book

April 18, 2023 • by Elena Shih

Commercial sex in Bangkok, broadcast through tourist networks, now links the city in many minds with human trafficking—following the global tendency to conflate all sex commerce with sex trafficking. ...

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

Feature

Others

A reflection on sex work

October 28, 2018 • by Amaya Olivas Díaz

On July 31, 2018, the BOE issued a resolution whereby the Ministry of Labor formalized the constitution of the OTRAS union (Sex Workers Organization), under Art. 28 of the EC, which establishes the fundamental right to unionize freely. In line with this news, many voices put the cry in the sky, ...

Politics

Legitimizing Sex Work

Legal and social appeal to dismantle state-justified victimization of prostitutes

December 18, 2017 • by Cameron Cory

Current day U.S state legislations criminalize prostitution, with the exception of Nevada. The criminalization of prostitution contributes to the legitimization of the state violence and surveillance of Otherized bodies - in this context, such bodies belong to sex workers. Anti-prostitution state legislature perpetuates the oppression of marginalized communities, as this ...

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Human Trafficking

A psychoanalytic and socio-historical view

October 27, 2014 • by Adrienne Harris

I am going to think and write about human trafficking through a perspective both psychoanalytic and socio-historical. In fact, part of my quest and my thinking about this matter is to find the right disciplinary mix to speak from and to. This essay is situated in a problem. ...