Why we need to stop stigmatizing mothers who do sex work
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Juniper Fitzgerald |
TEDxBoulder
• June 2019
In this eye-opening talk, author and former sex worker Juniper Fitzgerald challenges societal beliefs about mothers in the sex work industry and discusses how a systemic overhaul of their representation can empower them personally and professionally.
In this eye-opening talk, author and former sex worker Juniper Fitzgerald challenges societal beliefs about mothers in the sex work industry and discusses how a systemic overhaul of their representation can empower them personally and professionally.
Juniper Fitzgerald is a mother, author, and former sex worker; she has been active in the sex workers’ labor rights movement for fifteen years. She is also the author of the first children’s book with a sex-working parent, How Mamas Love Their Babies, and a forthcoming auto-theory, both by the Feminist Press. She holds a PhD in sociology.
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