Sex Worker Voices
'Nothing About Us, Without Us'
Mistress Evilyne is a British, London based professional dominatrix. Originally a pastry chef by profession, Mistress Evilyne left the world of kitchens 4 years ago to throw Herself into a whole new field of work where in a short time, she has thrived and become quite vocal about sex workers' rights. Mistress Evilyne is an advocate for the de-stigmatisation of sex work, and alternative sexuality and relationships in general. You can follow her at @MsEvilyne EJ Love is a Love and Sex Coach, Sexual Healer / Tantra Practitioner and Expert on Soul TV. She helps people to heal and empower themselves in love, intimacy and sex. She has worked in the sex industry since 2009 and often speaks from her own personal experience sharing her message through speaking events, media, radio shows and writing articles, books and blogs. www.facebook.com/EJLoveAngel. www.EJLove.com www.SoulPriestess.com. Eris Martinet is a professional dominatrix with years of experience. She blogs on issues around female dominance, BDSM and the history of kink. Her work offers alternative perspectives on sexual dissidence. @ErisMartinet Bubbles is a 26 year old sex worker, currently working behind a window in Belgium. She has also worked as a street sex worker and as a camgirl. She lives in the Netherlands, and works there as an activist for sexworkers at PROUD (www.wijzijnproud.nl). You can follow her at @sekswerker Camille Melissa is a Documentary Photographer, Masters Student, Sex Worker and Visual Activist interested in using photography to challenge the victim centred nature of sex worker imagery and how photography is instrumental in the war against sex workers. Through Whoretography, she is challenging the prevailing ideology of sex-work and wants to present to the viewer an alternative perception of the industry and participants - frequently obscured by one particular, narrow version of feminism, by anti-sex-work rhetoric and by modern Western cultural attitudes towards bodies and sex. Her photographic and cyber ethnographic work is about stopping the over-simplification of the lives of sex workers, and to challenge current imagery that encourages the sense that the only way of interpreting their lives is to see them as ripe for 'rescue.' Through Whoretography, Camille is working on a new interpretation of sex work imagery that will help to change the visual landscape that informs political views that rob so many sex workers of autonomy. She is currently publishing a series of books and e-magazines and is working towards secure funding to establish the first and only publishing house dedicated to using the visual medium of photo books to advance the rights of sex workers. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in biological sciences, postgraduate in criminology and is undertaking a Masters’s Degree in digital photography. @Whoretographer Miranda Kane is a former sex-worker, comedian, activist and public speaker. She also runs a Body positive/Fat activist night called Club Indulge, blogs for the Metro, debated at Cambridge University and Trinity College, Dublin on Sex-Worker rights, was nominated for best Comedy Award, Perth Fringe 2016, toured the UK with ‘Coin-Operated Girl’, and wrote and performed ‘Slaving Away’; a 6 part sitcom with audible.com. mirikane@gmail.com @BBWMelody Mistress T is an internationally renowned Dominatrix & FemDom fetish film performer & producer specializing in cuckolding, encouraged bi, humiliation & male orgasm control, among other proclivities. Her prolific films span nearly a decade & she has been featured extensively on the biggest FemDom sites in the world, including, TheEnglishMansion.com, FemDomEmpire.com & Kink.com’s FemDom site: DivineBitches.com. Canadian born, she has lived all of her adult life in Vancouver, BC while exploring the globe for work & pleasure. You can get to know her more intimately by reading her popular blog: http://www.MistressT.net/blog/ And following her on twitter: https://twitter.com/MistressTdotnet Here, Mistress T takes the issue of sexual shame within sex work, like the pathetic worm it is, and brings it firmly to heel. Chimaera Gray is a queer sex worker, artist, writer, and housewife from Australia. She's a fat activist, owns too much lipstick, has 7 cats, loves to cook, and says "fight me" a lot.
'Premier Pro Dominatrix of Sin City. Goddess of Fetish, Fetish, & Hartlotry. PhD Student. Part-Time Trollop.' Christina is a doctoral candidate in sociology at UNLV and works in the legal Nevada Brothels as Goddess Vienna. We are thrilled she is sharing her insights here. @GoddessVienna1 OH Sweet Jesus! It’s the one-and-only, Annie Sprinkle. Ultra-fabulous, and Multitalented in every sense. An Artist, Sexologist, Author, Lecturer, Educator, Thespian, Ecosexual, Pioneering gifted performer and director of Adult Film. (Swoon) She is the first porn start to have earned her Ph.D. Her work is studied in major Universities throughout the world. She has debuted in the best museums, galleries, and she is still going strong. We are beyond delighted that she has agreed to bless us with her wisdoms, idioms, and general musings. I literally couldn’t be more excited, and urge you to check her work in further detail at: http://anniesprinkle.org/ |
Sex Worker Voices
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