"Dear Higher Education, There are Sex Workers on Your Campus"
Author | : Terah J. Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1117445925 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book "Dear Higher Education, There are Sex Workers on Your Campus" written by Terah J. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore the realities of U.S. college students engaged in sex work. Specifically, I focused on motivations, histories, how social identity in relation to power informed their sex worker experience, what/how they were learning as a result of sex work, and what college and university leaders could do to support them. I focused on college student sex workers with racially and sexually minoritized identities. I used a genre-blurred critical narrative inquiry that combined aspects of the biographical genre (life history) and the art-based genre (creative non-fiction). Intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1991) and the polymorphous paradigm (Weizter, 2010) served as the theoretical framework for the inquiry and the Listening Guide (Gilligan, 2015) served as my analysis process. I developed six key findings including: critical differences between student sex workers with minoritized racial and sexual identities and those with dominant social identities, queer (in)visibility as it relates to their sex work, a lack of trust in college/university administrators, a lack of their ability to imagine how institutional leaders could (or would) support them; a clarity of: power and dominance, the violence of men, and a development of their overall confidence. I offer a discussion of the findings, implications, and future directions for this area of research and inquiry.