“If I′m gonna hack capitalism”: Racialized and Indigenous Canadian sex workers'experiences within the Neo-liberal market economy

‘It’s a Puzzle You Have to Do Every Night’: Performing Creative Problem Solving at Work in the Indoor Canadian Sex Industry

“…Moreover, the Eurocentric beauty ideal – the privileging of fair skin; long, smooth hair; and a slim, tall and youthful but not visibly muscled figure as normative female beauty – shapes managers’ perceptions of sex workers’ desirability and marketability. As such, Brooks (2010) argues that women of colour, and especially black women, are faced with limited hours and employment opportunities in strip clubs; other scholars have made similar observations about other sectors of the indoor sex industry (see Mahdavi, 2013; Raguparan, 2017). These scholars highlight how socially constructed race, class and gender-based normative assumptions intersect with stigma to impact the lived realities of sex workers of colour.…”

“…Pilcher, 2009; Price-Glynn, 2010). Highlighting the resistance in conformist interactions, Miller-Young (2014) points out how black women in pornographic media strategically employ their presumed hypersexuality and illicit eroticism to achieve economic mobility, erotic autonomy and self-care (see also Mahdavi, 2013; Raguparan, 2017; Rivers-Moore, 2016). Others similarly note sex workers resist intolerable working conditions by removing their labour power (i.e.…”

Barriers to Governmental Income Supports for Sex Workers during COVID-19: Results of a Community-Based Cohort in Metro Vancouver

“…In recognizing sex work as not an inherent site of violence or health "risk", but rather a legitimate form of labour, our analysis is based on the understanding that sex work occupational health and safety is shaped not only by criminalization, but by gender in-equity, colonialism as well as capitalism, and conditioned by work environments. This analysis therefore aims to centre the diversity in lived experience and the interplay between structural, community and individual factors (Shannon et al 2015;Crago et al 2021;Bingham et al 2014;Raguparan 2017;Krüsi et al 2016;Deering et al 2014;Lyons et al 2017). We utilized a structural determinants of health framework (Shannon et al 2015), which understands sex work occupational health and safety risks or protective factors operating at macrostructural, community, and work environment levels.…”

A different kind of risky business: Men who manage men in the sex industry

“…Endeavoring to dispel dominant myths about the sex industry as exclusively exploitative, a proliferation of critical studies has recognized women in sex work as agentic, and their customers and managers as ordinary (e.g., Bruckert and Law, 2013;Benoit et al, 2020;Casey et al, 2017;Egan, 2006). Such studies have also highlighted how (hetero)normative gender scripts intersect with racialization and class and are resisted and reproduced in service and workplace interactions and managerial practices (e.g., Bouclin, 2006;Brooks, 2010;Bruckert and Parent, 2018;DeMichele and Tewksbury, 2004;Raguparan, 2017). As with those framing prostitution as violence (e.g., Barry, 1995;Farley, 2004), however, most of these studies focus on female sex work.…”