Leila Raven (she/her) is a queer mama and community organizer working to build safety without prisons or policing.

Daniella (she/her): I entered sex work out of necessity, but I found my voice in it.

Mistress Velvet (they/them) is Chicago’s Premier African Dominatrix. They are a Marxist-Leninist worker, sex & pleasure educator, and specialize in BDSM therapy.

Niko (she/her) is an alter ego born through the synchronicities of sex work and artwork. She works as a dominatrix in NYC. She has exhibited with the collective Stigma Unbound, and has worked with the organization Red Canary Song.

Alisha Walker (she/her) is a multi-media visual artist, poet, inside organizer, (former) sex worker and criminalized survivor. LeLe is a mixed ethinic, Black woman and self-described unapologetic whore. She is a member of the Support Ho(s)e Collective. Alisha is currently (forcibly) based in Decatur, Illinois.

Ariel Wolf (she/her) is an artist, writer, researcher, and former sex worker. She has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and her research about sex work has been published in the Journal of Sexuality & Relationship Therapy and the Anti-Trafficking Review.

AP (She/They) is a sex worker and organizer living in the DMV. She does not have a cat, but thinks yours is very photogenic.

Emily Iris (she/her) is an aspiring nun.

Lorelei Lee (they/she) is a nonbinary disabled femme writer, sex worker, and activist. They owe their life to other sex workers.

JB Brager (they/them) is a cartoonist living in Brooklyn NY, Lenapehoking. They can be found online at jbbrager.com and on social media @jbbrager.

Blunt (she/her) is a NYC-based Dominatrix and co-founder of Hacking//Hustling. She enjoys watching her community thrive and making men cry.

Jacq the Stripper (she/her) is, as her name suggests, in addition to an artist, writer, comedian, and dope-ass cunt who likes money.

squiggles.and.sluts (they/them and he/him) is a Baltimore based queer/trans prettyboy, Libra, stripper, e-slut, fssw, artist and so much more. I make work about life in the sex industry as a trans person who has to change their identity for work.

Melissa Gira Grant (she/her) is the author of “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work,” and a staff writer covering justice at The New Republic.

Caty Simon (she/her) is a Russian Jewish first generation immigrant and opioid-using low-income sex worker who’s been in the sex workers’ rights movement since dinosaurs roamed the earth in 2002. She’s the co-editor of Tits and Sass, the only national media site by and for sex workers, and the sex worker liaison for Urban Survivors Union, the national drug users union, where she also sits on the board. Together with her brilliant co-organizer Naomi Lauren and genius criminal justice subcommittee head Leo Foxx, she also does activism with Whose Corner Is It Anyway, a Western Mass harm reduction/political education/mutual aid/ organizing group by and for poor sex workers who use stimulants and opioids, work the street, and/or experience housing insecurity.

Emily Coombes (they/them) is a researcher and organizer with the Las Vegas Sex Worker Collective and the Hacking//Hustling collective. They currently help manage a mutual aid fund for sex workers in Las Vegas facing financial precarity during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emily Coombes (they/them) is a researcher and organizer with the Las Vegas Sex Worker Collective and the Hacking//Hustling collective. They currently help manage a mutual aid fund for sex workers in Las Vegas facing financial precarity during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. 51

Audrey Ryan (she/her) is a visual artist consumed by the human figure. Their work focuses on our duality as both physical and psychic beings, examining the interchange between psychological states and physical bodies. They are heavily informed by punk, hardcore and BDSM communities, years of classical ballet training and a person history of disorder and recovery. With a voyeuristic perspective and exhibitionistic gesture, Audrey’s work probes social performance and seeks to provoke the questioning of our architecture of shame, control and power.

Paul Glover (he/him) is a visual artist who lucid dreams about flying, hiking, and strategic arson.

Red Schulte (they/them) is a queer, non-binary femme educator, community organizer and zinester. They are a current collective member, and the zine coordinator for Bluestockings Bookstore, Cafe and Activist Center. They are also a member of the Support Ho(s)e collective, Survived & Punished NY, Hacking//Hustling, and help coordinate the Justice for Alisha Walker Defense Campaign. Red’s zine-making centers collage-as-therapy, sex worker-led resistance, currently incarcerated comrades’ stories, and (decriminalizing) survival.

Jett George (they/them) is a queer/trans jewexx, survivor, educator, and illustrator making art as activism. Jett organizes with Survived + Punished NY for a future without prisons.

Yin Q (they/she) is the founder of Kink Out and co-Director of Red Canary Song. Their sex work activism derives from the desire to tear off clothes, incite anarchy, and empty the wallets of the patriarchy.