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About Rachel Stuart
I am a PhD researcher at the University of Kent and I am just completing my PhD on webcamming as a form of sexual commerce. At the same time as working on my thesis, I have been involved in several pieces of research with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and The Doctors of The World. Both these pieces of research looked at the experiences of street women around policing - a real juxtaposition with my thesis research of a form of legitimate sex work. I am interested in the aspects of sexuality and sex work that fall outside the binaries of exploitation and liberation and use this space as one where areas that fall outside the everyday discourses can be exploredRachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rachel:
August 5, 2021
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print …
July 20, 2021
For Abolition
According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the …
July 16, 2021
The Borders of AIDS
As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other coun…
July 7, 2021
Sorting Sexualities
In Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the polit…
June 30, 2021
Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. J. Laite's book Common…
June 22, 2021
Work, Money and Duality
Raven Bowen's Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex As a Side-Hustle (Policy Press, 2021) is a rare and valuable exploration of work duality. It calls …
June 21, 2021
We Too
This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's never been a better time to fight for justice. Respondi…
June 18, 2021
From Social Harm to Zemiology
Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs' book From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2021) outlines key developments in understan…
June 4, 2021
Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal
Francine Tremblay's book Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal: Resistance and Advocacy (Lexington Books, 2020) is based on a case study abou…
June 3, 2021
Porn Work
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to e…
May 26, 2021
Aggressors in Blue
Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) presents a powerful and thorough investigation into police deviance a…
May 21, 2021
Take Me with You
Today I talked to Vanessa Carlisle about her new book Take Me with You (Running Wild, 2021). Kindred Powell's youth is marked by a secret that her wh…
May 19, 2021
Pain Generation
Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts…
May 18, 2021
Giulia Zampini on Researching Drug Taking
Today I talked to Giulia Zampini about her research into drug taking, and particularly about the "People and Dancefloors" project. Based on a particip…
May 10, 2021
Paying for Sex in a Digital Age
Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross-cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based …
May 6, 2021
Nothing About Us Without Us
Today I talked to Dilara Yarbrough about her article "Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guideli…
April 30, 2021
Criminality at Work
Dr Katie Cruz contributed a chapter titled "The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom and Criminality at Work" to the book Criminality at Work (Ox…
April 29, 2021
The Black Queer Work of Ratchet
Nikki Lane's The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) enters as a…
April 28, 2021
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Polit…
April 27, 2021
Las Biuty Queens
Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx q…
April 21, 2021
Why We Lost the Sex Wars
Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called o…
April 16, 2021
The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society
Panoramic and provocative in its scope, John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov's The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society (Routle…
April 16, 2021
Reinventing Licentiousness
Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives--ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures--to argue that pornograph…
April 13, 2021
Provocauteurs and Provocations
Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New dist…