Transactional Intercourse: A Trans and Intersex Sex Worker Anthology
Transactional Intercourse is an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' writing, serving as a snapshot of our experiences in our own words. It includes essays and personal narratives from 30 sex workers who either sell sex directly to clients or make porn, across the sex and gender spectrum.To fund this anthology and make it possible, a funding campaign was run through Kickstarter. While the initial funding push has finished, you can now pre-order traditionally! Publication date is April 27th!
People who do not conform to society's expectations with regards to our sex and gender are either overlooked or made into hypervisible subjects of mockery and hatred, and this is compounded further when we engage in stigmatized labour like sex work. For this reason, a full range of perspectives and circumstances will be presented rather than stifling voices to create a collection that is solely about empowerment or trauma. There is enough room in this anthology for those of us who love sex work and those of us who hate it, as well as the majority who fall in between the extremes.I'm tired of looking for stories from trans and intersex sex workers and finding far more instances of people speaking over us than instances where we get to speak for ourselves. I'm angry that when I do find documentaries or writing where we are featured and get the chance to express our thoughts, those involved have frequently gone unpaid and been treated poorly in the process of sharing. I'm devastated that we're so often gawked at or framed as dangerous deviants by people who gain money and notoriety from broadcasting the details of our suffering and ridiculing our joy. We deserve better, and I hope the anthology Transactional Intercourse can be a part of that!
About The Editor
I'm Jack (he/they). I've been selling sex for almost a decade. I started out as a sugar baby at 17 whilst still presenting as a cis woman, quickly moving on to brothel work and independent escorting to pay my bills and later funding my transition as I continued to engage in sex work.My struggles and experiences of the stigma around sex work led me into activism, so now I write about sex workers issues on my website jackviolet.com and create projects like this.
I previously published Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology, which has had far more success than anticipated. It is my hope that Transactional Intercourse can be a vehicle to gain extra support for trans sex workers of all genders and for the intersex sex workers who are so often forgotten about.