‘Anora’, (Sex) Work, and the Fantasies of Genre
Sean Baker’s Anora illustrates how sex work – a working-class job – is a dance between creativity and commerce, art and artifice.
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Director Emma Seligman on Sex and Insecurity in Her Dark Comedy, ‘Shiva Baby’
Emma Seligman talks with PopMatters about her dark comedy about sex work and anxiety, Shiva Baby.
HBO Crime Drama ‘Mare of Easttown’ Perpetuates a Familiar and Dangerous Trope
Typical of crime dramas, HBO’s Mare of Easttown‘s police and witnesses blatantly display their contempt for sex workers.
Netflix’s ‘Bonding’ Is Worth Getting Tied Up With
With Bonding, Netflix offers up a sweet and salty treat that explores what we must otherwise suppress within ourselves.
On Those Who Must Work as Whores and Those Who Can Afford to Just Play at It
The debate about sex work is usually about the spectacle that accompanies “sex”, rather than about the sex workers and the work of sex. That needs to change.