Sex Work

I spent my life entangled with women. Women have been all around me, shaping my life, bringing vibrant stories that go way beyond whatever theory they teach in a classroom.

Sex work is not sexual violence, even though it can contain that. Sex work is queer as fuck, trans as fuck, and historical as fuck.

The queer body gets fetishized, but queer isn't just about color or neurodivergence. It is kink, it is fetish, it is the erotic as an embodied truth, and by God, it is a way to live.

Here in Idaho, there is no system to protect you. If a client refuses to pay, you have no legal recourse, and claiming your work is an immediate liability because the state makes your survival illegal. But it happens here every single day. It is a material reality.

I have to talk about sex work on this site for the exact same reason I talk about Indigenous studies, immigration, queerness, and disability. It isn't an abstract clinical topic to be analyzed or saved from. It is real life, and it is an experience children, the fetishized, and the disfigured have long endured.

Topics:

• Anti-Racist Theory (exposing state violence, redlining, displacement, and assimilation pressures)

• Embodiment & Feminist Theory (reclaiming physical touch, somatic memory, and bodily autonomy outside rigid gender policing)

• Human Development (understanding how childhood environments, border crossings, and cultural shifts shape nervous system adaptation)

• Social Model of Disability (framing unaccommodating cultural and legal systems as the source of harm rather than individual defect)

• Case Management and System Navigation/Advocacy (providing real-world backing for legal status, institutional friction, and material survival)

• Boundaries & Being in Relationship (rebuilding authentic relational safety across cultural divides and family expectations)