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How to Work With Sex Workers in Film
Let's talk about how to work with sex workers in film. A lot of productions say they want “authenticity.” But what that usually looks like is: pulling from stereotypes hiring actors to “interpret” sex workers or worse, using real sex workers as loose inspiration...
How Sex Workers Consult on Trauma-Informed Customer Care
Trauma-informed care is often discussed in clinical or therapeutic settings, but it is rarely applied with nuance to customer-facing environments. Sex workers, however, practice trauma-informed customer care every day, navigating emotional labor, boundaries, safety,...
How Sex Workers Consult on De-escalation & Safety Planning
De-escalation and safety planning are often discussed as emergency responses, something to deploy only when conflict or harm is already underway. Sex workers, however, practice de-escalation and safety planning as ongoing, proactive skills, embedded into daily...
Sex Worker Expertise
Why Film Needs to Start Listening to Sex Worker Consultants
There’s a pattern in film and media that’s hard to ignore. Stories about sex work get told constantly, but sex workers themselves are almost never part of the process. Instead, what we get is: recycled stereotypes exaggerated trauma or glamorization characters that...
Intimacy Coaching And Why Productions Actually Need It
If you’ve ever watched a film or TV show and thought, “that felt real” (or… very much not), there’s a good chance intimacy coaching had something to do with it. Intimacy coaching is still a relatively new role in mainstream media, but in reality, it fills a gap that...