Areas of Expertise
YAS Veterans works across multiple areas of sex worker–led consulting. This page outlines our core areas of expertise and connects each one to deeper writing in our Sex Workers as Consultants library.
Each area listed below reflects consulting work grounded in lived experience, harm reduction, and power-aware practice, not abstract theory. Use the search bar below, to find consultants that match your needs.
Consent & Boundary Training
Sex workers consult on consent and boundaries as lived, ongoing practices shaped by power, risk, and negotiation. This work goes beyond compliance frameworks to address how consent actually functions in real-world conditions.
This expertise includes:
Consent education grounded in lived experience
Boundary negotiation under power imbalance
Power-aware communication practices
Organizational responsibility for consent culture
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Trauma-Informed Customer Care
Sex workers bring deep expertise in trauma-informed care within customer-facing and community-facing roles. This consulting centers ethical engagement, emotional labor, and sustainable care that protects both workers and participants.
This expertise includes:
Trauma-aware communication
Emotional labor as skilled work
Boundaries within care roles
Preventing burnout and secondary harm
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Digital Privacy & Risk Management
Sex workers have long navigated digital surveillance, data risk, and platform harm. As consultants, they advise on privacy-by-design approaches that prioritize safety, autonomy, and informed consent.
This expertise includes:
Digital risk assessment
Privacy-aware workflows
Consent in online engagement
Harm reduction in digital spaces
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How Sex Workers Consult on Digital Privacy & Risk Management (planned)
De-escalation & Safety Planning
Sex workers practice de-escalation and safety planning proactively — not just in moments of crisis. As consultants, they help organizations develop realistic, usable safety strategies that reduce harm without relying on punishment or surveillance.
This expertise includes:
Early recognition of escalation cues
Harm-reduction approaches to conflict
Safety planning under real constraints
Collective responsibility for safety
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Anti-Racism & Power-Aware Facilitation
Sex workers consult on anti-racism by naming how race, criminalization, gender, disability, and class shape risk, access, and harm. This work focuses on power-aware facilitation rather than performative diversity practices.
This expertise includes:
Power analysis in group settings
Anti-racist facilitation grounded in lived experience
Addressing harm without defaulting to punishment
Centering those most impacted by structural violence
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How Sex Workers Consult on Anti-Racism & Power-Aware Facilitation (planned)
Ethical Engagement & Community Accountability
Sex workers consult on ethical engagement by challenging extractive practices and reframing accountability as relational, ongoing, and community-based. This work supports organizations seeking to align values with practice.
This expertise includes:
Ethical collaboration frameworks
Community accountability models
Avoiding extractive consultation
Shared responsibility for impact
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How Sex Workers Consult on Ethical Engagement & Accountability (planned)
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Each of these areas is explored in greater depth through the YAS Veterans Hub, which houses our growing Sex Workers as Consultants library.
Veteran-Identified Skills & Strengths
YAS Veterans centers the skills that sex work veterans identify in themselves. The areas below reflect the kinds of consulting veterans consistently name as work they are skilled at and trusted in — often shaped by years of lived experience, creative labor, and community leadership.
These skills inform and support all of our consulting focus areas.
Creative, Media & Cultural Consultation
Film writing — Movies, TV, documentaries, and short films about sex workers or depicting sex workers
Film production — Movies, TV, documentaries, and short films about sex workers or depicting sex workers
Music videos — Guidance for civilians creating music videos that depict sex work or sex work culture (including pole dancing)
Podcast creation — Support for sex workers starting a podcast or revitalizing an existing one
Digital Presence & Media Strategy
Website creation — Building sites or providing input for sex workers launching new projects
Social media posting — Guidance on respectful and strategic posting, for sex workers and pole dancers
Social media management — Support for sex workers maintaining account health and sustainability
Business, Industry & Cooperative Consulting
Cannabis industry navigation — Compliance, licensing, and business development in regulated cannabis markets
Strategic brand partnerships — Building profitable brand relationships, securing sponsorships, and developing high-impact campaigns
Business & cooperative development — Structuring worker-owned cooperatives and LLCs, securing funding, and implementing equitable business models
Pole, Performance & Event Spaces
Pole dance studios — Consultation for people opening or running studios who want to be more inclusive
Pole dance events — Support for large events, concerts with pole dancers, fundraisers, and competitions
Event production — Consulting on pop-ups, concerts, art exhibits, and other events that include sex workers
Community, Conflict & Skill-Building Support
Dealing with conflict — Support navigating conflict in pole studios, communities, or personal environments
Just starting out — Guidance for sex workers entering the industry (stripping, porn, camming, OF, sugaring)
Getting over whorephobia — Support for people working to recognize and dismantle whorephobia
This list is growing…
This list is not exhaustive and will continue to grow as veterans name additional skills and areas of consulting they bring to this work.