Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance
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Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance In-Person
UNLV Special Collections and Archives and the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies invite you to attend Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance, the second annual Sexual Entertainment and Economies collection event exploring sex work, representation, and activism featuring authors from the new book, Sex Work Today, and a special performance of Whore’s Eye View by Kaytlin Bailey. This gathering highlights the lives, histories, and agency of those in the erotic economy, opening space for fresh conversations about labor, identity, and justice.
Schedule
Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance
Panel 1 – Power and Resistance in Erotic Labor, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Beverly Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101, UNLV
- Taking Our Words Right Out of Our Mouths: The Appropriation of Sex Worker-Rights Language, Crystal Jackson, Arizona State University
- Not a Client, Not a Sex Worker: Dismantling the “Pimp” Stereotype, Stacey Hannem, Wilfrid Laurier University
- *“Beat Em At Their Game”: The Strategic Deployment of “Victimhood” as Resistance, Lillian Taylor Jungleib, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- *“The Police Don’t Protect Us!”: Why Sex Workers Don’t Trust the Police, Kaytlin Bailey, Founder & Executive Director Old Pros Network
Panel 2: Bodies, Pleasure, and Representation – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Beverly Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101, UNLV
- The Big Beautiful Women Awards: Fat Latinas in the Porn Industry, Yessica Hernandez, UCLA
- Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction Among Professional Dominatrixes, Tania Levey, City University of New York.
- Gifts of Desire: The Erotics of Gift Exchange and Sex Worker Mutual Aid, Kassandra Sparks, Univ of California, Berkeley and Lena Chen, University of California, Berkeley
- Pornography With Heart: The Holistic Potential of Feminist Porn, Inka Winter, erotic filmmaker and founder of ForPlay Films
Reception – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Goldfield Room, Lied Library, UNLV
Whore’s Eye View, Goldfield Room, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Kaytlin Bailey, Founder & Executive Director Old Pros Network
50 minute show with 30 minute Q&A
Whore’s Eye View is a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex workers’ perspective. Equal parts history lesson, stand-up comedy, and personal storytelling, Kaytlin Bailey masterfully unpacks the age-old stigma underpinning the oldest profession, and a status quo designed to keep women in their place. Kaytlin’s eye-opening message is a compassionate, clarion call, a crash course in history, and a game changing roadmap for progress that can be sustained once and for all.
Campus Partners
UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives | UNLV College of Liberal Arts
Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies | Department of Sociology
Department of History | Reid Public History Institute | Department of English
- Date:
- Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- UNLV Maryland (Main) Campus
- Audience:
- Alumni Community/Public Faculty & Staff Graduate/Professional Students Undergraduate Students
- Categories:
- Library Event