Let Us Survive: An Oral History of Sex Worker Movements Before and After FOSTA-SESTA

Hacking//Hustling Collective

Topics: Technology · Society & Culture · History

The community response to the United States bills known as FOSTA-SESTA represents a sea change in American sex worker organizing. Supposedly, these bills were intended by their Congressional authors to change how the internet is regulated in order to make the country safer for victims of sex trafficking.  We’ll talk plenty over the course of this podcast series about how that was supposed to work, and why it hasn’t.  Let Us Survive, an oral history project by sex workers for everyone, covers a decade of American sex worker justice movements, roughly 2013 to 2023. It also gazes towards the future: of the industry, and of our labor organizing.   This podcast does something that US Congress...