Sara Kallock

Gustavus Adolphus College · Politics

An emerging refrain on the left is that the problems of sex work pertain to conditions of work under capitalism rather than sex. In Revolting Prostitutes sex worker activists Juno Mac and Molly Smith adopt what I call the sex laborist perspective. Broadly, this holds that our analysis-philosophical, sociological, political, whatever-of sex work oug...

This article introduces the concept of abnormativity as way of theorizing the realities of subjects who suffer from marginalization and/or erasure, specifically sex workers. It then develops livability as a playbook of political action which attends to the abnormative lives of sex workers by balancing resistance to institutionalized forms of margin...