Let’s read
together.
Join our reading club!
The Happy Hookers’ Reading Club is a reading club for sex workers only to explore the subject of sex work in academic research.
We want to read what’s been written about us and create a space where we can talk back, share our thoughts, and explore these ideas from our own experiences as workers in the sex industry.
Our idea
Let’s put together a reading list of academic texts on sex work and meet every two weeks to discuss them on our Discord channel.
Our reading list
(so far!)
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Angela Jones
Journal of Women in Culture and Society; 2016
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
Berkeley: University of California Press; 1983
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Judith R. Walkowitz
Radical History Review; 2024
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Angela Jones
Sociology Compass; 2015
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Teela Sanders
Sexualities; 2018
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M Antonia Carbonero & María Gómez Garrido
Sociology; 2017
Calling all sex workers and free thinkers
We're looking for those who are curious, critical, and ready to chat about what academia has to say about sex work.
If you’d like to be part of it, share your contact information with us and we’ll reach out to coordinate meeting dates.
FAQs
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For this first edition, we’re keeping the reading club for sex workers only, so we can have a safer space to share and discuss freely. In the future we will evaluate creating a SW + Ally reading club.
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Yes, it is completely free.
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This reading club is self-organized, and sessions will be led collectively in a horizontal way.
We’ll decide on the structure together during our first meeting. -
There will be sessions in English and Spanish.
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NOT AT ALL, lol