Livable Intersections - Re/Framing Sex Work at the Frontline Kallock Sara M.Paperback / softback
Livable Intersections - Re/Framing Sex Work at the Frontline Kallock Sara M.Paperback / softback What is it like to live a life that is impossible? Within this context of heteronormativity, sex…
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Livable Intersections - Re/Framing Sex Work at the Frontline Kallock Sara M.Paperback / softback
What is it like to live a life that is impossible? Within this context of heteronormativity, sex working experiences are defined by multiple and overlapping forms of marginalization. For many sex workers, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, a crossroads where one is beset by vulnerability and regulation, where one is simultaneously blamed, victimized, and infantilized.
Yet, such services are themselves often entangled with the social, cultural, and political processes that engender the disavowal of "sex" as a form of "work" and the attendant marginalization of sex workers. Social support services are widely thought to provide a crucial bulwark against such unlivable realities by empowering service users to manage (and even overcome) their oppressive circumstances. Bringing together insights from Judith Butler and intersectionality, Livable Intersections: