Money, Agency, and Self-Care among Cisgender and Trans People in Sex Work

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dc.contributor.authorOrchard, Treena
dc.contributor.authorSalter, Katherine
dc.contributor.authorBunch, Mary
dc.contributor.authorBenoit, Cecilia
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-01T19:47:16Z
dc.date.available2021-02-01T19:47:16Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractMany qualitative studies about the exchange of sex for money, drugs, and less tangible outcomes (i.e., social status) contend that this activity contributes to high levels of internalized stigma among people in sex work. The cis (n = 33) and trans people (n = 5) who participated in our project about health, violence, and social services acknowledged the stigma associated with sex work but were not governed by the dominant discourse about its moral stain. They shared nuanced insights about the relationship between sex work and self-respect as people who use their earnings to mitigate the struggles of poverty and ongoing drug use, and care for themselves more broadly. This study sheds new light on the ways that cis and trans people negotiate issues of money, agency, and self-care, contributing to the literature on consensual sex work that examines different aspects of stigma, safety, and health with a nuanced, non-binary gender analysis.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Operating Grant MOP-137145).en_US
dc.identifier.citationOrchard, T., Salter, K., Bunch, M., & Benoit, C. (2021). Money, Agency, and Self- Care among Cisgender and Trans People in Sex Work. Social Sciences, 10(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010006.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12642
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectsex work
dc.subjectmoney
dc.subjectagency
dc.subjectself-care
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjecttransgender
dc.subjectsubjectivity
dc.subjectCanadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.titleMoney, Agency, and Self-Care among Cisgender and Trans People in Sex Worken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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