Notes from the Sex Worker Left

Heather Berg is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the author of Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism.

"Heather Berg exposes layers of state violence that exceed class warfare, centering the collective, ongoing forms of survival, insurgency, and multi-modal praxis emanating from sex worker radicals. In these pages, you will encounter the constant emergence of a truly ungovernable 'lumpen formation' that poses a vibrant, creative, necessary threat to the normalized oppressiveness of a collapsing social order. This book will indelibly change your thinking." -- Dylan Rodriguez, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Riverside "Notes from the Sex Worker Left traces a leading edge of radical theory. Beyond racial capitalism, beyond the state and beyond the family, sex workers are naming and pursuing the revolutionary horizon. This book is the thinking we all urgently need for our collective survival and liberation."--M. E. O'Brien, author of Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care