Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/08/2021 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Spark Talks: “Nothing About Us Without Us”: Ukrainian Sex Worker Politics by Dafna Rachok (Aug 7, 2021)
Description: Sex work provides a perfect example to ponder the distinctions between formal and informal politics and explore the relationships of money, intimacy, and authenticity. Building on the ethnographic fieldwork in central Ukraine, this talk shows how sex workers utilize a controversial topic such as sex to attract attention to their marginalized situation and politicize their activism, and how sex workers attempt to discursively legitimize their income-generating activity and relationships with clients by employing ideas about honesty and resisting the discourse of authenticity. Dafna finishes the talk by discussing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sex workers in Ukraine.
