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ProMomme: a sex worker’s guide to parenting

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Edition of 300 August 2024, English, 8 x 11 in, 72 pages, color, softcover ORDER FROM (and Co-published by) Sming Sming + Cash Machine What do erotic labor and child rearing have in common? How do these (normally unpaid) private practices inform one another? ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting is a poetic, honest, and practical […]

Categories: 2024, collaboration, EVERYTHING, publication, things, work • Tags: California Arts Council, Carmen of Angeles, Cash Machine, Emme Witt-Edenn, Frenchie, GabyG., Honey De Vil, Julia SH, Kim Ye, Lorde Destroyer, Lucy Khan, Mari V, Maxine Holloway, Piggy Lu, Princess Marx, Sming Sming Books, SWOPLA, Yin Q

Working Girls Press

January 22, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Working Girls Press, founded in 2023 by Molly B Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy, is set to release their inaugural issue, “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic, and the Divine.” The edition will be available as an ebook as well as a paperback. “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Kim Ye, Molly B Simmons, Working Girls Press

Challenging dominant narratives: Queer sex worker art in Los Angeles

January 8, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“Challenging dominant narratives, interrupting objectification, and queer creativity: Queer sex worker art in Los Angeles” Published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies Authored by Wei Si Nic Yiu, Lauren Levitt, Kim Ye, Kimberly Fuentes, and Ashley Madness. This research paper co-authored by Kim Ye with support from SWOPLA, draws on queer of color critique and […]

Categories: 2023, collaboration, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: academic journal article, Ashley Madness, Feed the Fam, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Kim Ye, Kimberly Fuentes, Lauren Levitt, peer reviewed research, Research paper, Sex workers outreach project los angeles, Shanisia Person, SWOP Los Angeles, SWOPLA, Wei Si Nic Yiu

The Feminist Curse: Volume VII, Summer ’23

July 28, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“The Feminist Curse,” Kim Ye’s essay on motherhood, eroticism, and domestic gender parity written from the point of view of a sex worker raising a boy is published in Petit Mort Magazine, Volume VII, Summer 2023. The essay is accompanied by black and white photographs taken by Mark McKnight of Kim Ye and her 6-month-old […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: Allie Oops, Bardot Smith, Kim Ye, Lily Vivier, Mark McKnight, Mason Rose, Matthew Camp, Penelope Dario, Petit Mort Magazine, The Feminist Curse