Zines & Poetry

Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry | Amber Dawn & Justin Ducharme

$pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution | Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems | Amber Dawn

Black Queer Hoe | Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns | Andrea Gibson

Auto-biographies & Anthologies

ASAROTICA | Jiz Lee

Coming Out Like a Porn Star | Jiz Lee

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More | Janet Mock

Prostitute Laundry | Charlotte Shane

Annie Sprinkle: Post-Porn Modernist | Annie Sprinkle

Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry | Frederique Delacoste

Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex | David Henry Sterry

Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot | Carol Leigh

Sexuality & gender

Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration | Audacia Ray

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us | Kate Bornstein

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality | Carol Queen

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity | Judith Butler

Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures | L. H. Stallings

Comics/ Graphic Novels

Striptastic!: a celebration of dope-ass cunts who like money | Jacqueline Frances

SFSX (Safe Sex) | Tina Horn

Fiction

The Three-Headed Dog | Dr Laura María Agustín

Kindred | Octavia E. Butler

Race & Class

Women, Race, and Class | Angela Y. Davis

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color | Andrea Richie

Sex, Race and Class--the Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011 | Selma James

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy | LaShawn Harris

I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago | Cynthia M. Blair

Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures | L. H. Stallings

Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry | Siobhan Brooks

A Taste for Brown Sugar Black Women in Pornography | Mireille Miller-Young

Collection of Black Revolutionary Texts

Criminalization & activism

Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India | Prabha Kotiswaran

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy | Barbara Ehrenreich

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk | Melinda Chateauvert

Whores and Other Feminists | Jill Nagle

Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law | Alison Bass

Playing the Whore The Work of Sex Work | Melissa Gira Grant

Revolting Prostitutes The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights | Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work | Katie Hail-Jares, Corey S. Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon

To Live Freely in This World Sex Worker Activism in Africa | Chi Adanna Mgbako

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds | Adrienne Maree Brown

sociology & Labor

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling | Arlie Russell Hochschild

Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work | Rebecca Bromwich

How Mamas Love Their Babies | Juniper Fitzgerald and Elise Peterson

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons | Silvia Federici 

Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex | Elizabeth Bernstein

Getting Past 'the Pimp': Management in the Sex Industry | Chris Bruckert and Colette Parent

Migration, Globalization, & Trafficking

Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry | Laura María Agustín

Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom | Elizabeth Bernstein 

Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition | Kamala Kempadoo

Trafficking Policy Research Project

Bookstores

Bluestockings Bookstore & Activist Center

Interference Archive

Research & Reports

Sex Work Research

Decriminalize Sex Work

Posting Into the Void: Studying the Impact of Shadowbanning on Sex Workers and Activists | Hacking/ Hustling | 2020

Erased: The Impact of FOSTA-SESTA and the Removal of Backpage | Hacking/ Hustling | 2020

Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US | Hoefinger et. al | 2020

Craigslist Reduced Violence Against Women | Cunningham et. al | 2019

Twenty Years of Failing Sex Workers: A community report on the impact of the 1999 Swedish Sex Purchase Act | Fuckförbundet | 2019

A Review of the Criminalisation of Paying for Sexual Services in Northern Ireland | Graham Ellison, Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill & Erin Early, Dept of Justice | 2019

Behind the Rescue: How Anti-Trafficking Investigations and Policies Harm Migrant Sex Workers | Butterfly Toronto | 2018

Sex Workers Organising for Change: Self-representation, community mobilisation, and working conditions | Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women | 2018

Decreasing Human Trafficking through Sex Work Decriminalization | Albright & D’Adamo | 2017

Policy on State Obligations to Respect, Protect, and Fulfill the Human Rights of Sex Workers | Amnesty International | 2016

Decriminalisation of Sex Work in New Zealand | New Zealand Prostitutes Collective | 2013

Hands Up: A Systematized Review Of Policing Sex Workers In The U.S. | Fabian Luis Fernandez | 2016

The Use of Raids to Fight Trafficking in Persons | Sex Workers Project | 2009

Report of the Prostitution Law Review Committee on the Operation of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 | New Zealand Law Review Committee | 2008

Behind Closed Doors: An analysis of indoor sex work in New York City | Sex Workers Project | 2005