Helen M Rand
Biographic Data
| ID | 903628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen M Rand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rand |
| SIGNATURE | RAND H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2513-0667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A justice-oriented sex work studies roundtable towards research for the community, not the academy
Engaging with academics’ growing appetite for sex work research and the inclusion of sex workers as research collaborators and co-conspirators, our roundtable paper offers some practical considerations on doing sex work research. The roundtable discussion took place in July 2025. Participants included AJ Bravo, Alex Bruno, Aoife Slater-Parry, Carmela Morgillo, Carolina Are, Helen M. Rand, and Leander/Steven Di Costa. To make participation more ac…
‘As straight as they come’: Expressions of masculinities within digital sex markets
The research presented in this paper supports claims by feminists and queer theorists that there are numerous and diverse sex/gender/desire categories (Bem, 1995). Taken from a broader digital ethnography of digital sex markets in the United Kingdom, the findings are based on ten in-depth interviews with those who identified as men or ‘gender flexible’ and who buy and/or sell sex within digital markets. The participants featured in this paper use…
Navigating and resisting platform affordances: Online sex work as digital labor
The context in which labor occurs shapes work. In online work, the platform is one site of work and therefore influences the experiences of workers. Current research on affordances considers how these platform features create value for the platform, shape workers' rights and safety, and reinforce existing racial hierarchies through algorithms. This project, researching online sex work practices in the UK, adds to this literature on platform work …
Challenging the Invisibility of Sex Work in Digital Labour Politics
This article adds to the debate on digital labour by including sexual labour, a feminised form of work that is traditionally excluded from official labour statistics and mainstream labour politics because of the embedded sociolegal, cultural and political context that defines female sexual labour as illegitimate work. This exclusion has been extended to digital labour politics. This article draws on a four-year multi-method qualitative study in t…
Challenging the Invisibility of Sex Work in Digital Labour Politics
This article adds to the debate on digital labour by including sexual labour, a feminised form of work that is traditionally excluded from official labour statistics and mainstream labour politics because of the embedded sociolegal, cultural and political context that defines female sexual labour as illegitimate work. This exclusion has been extended to digital labour politics. This article draws on a four-year multi-method qualitative study in t…
Navigating and resisting platform affordances: Online sex work as digital labor
The context in which labor occurs shapes work. In online work, the platform is one site of work and therefore influences the experiences of workers. Current research on affordances considers how these platform features create value for the platform, shape workers' rights and safety, and reinforce existing racial hierarchies through algorithms. This project, researching online sex work practices in the UK, adds to this literature on platform work …
Challenging the Invisibility of Sex Work in Digital Labour Politics
This article adds to the debate on digital labour by including sexual labour, a feminised form of work that is traditionally excluded from official labour statistics and mainstream labour politics because of the embedded sociolegal, cultural and political context that defines female sexual labour as illegitimate work. This exclusion has been extended to digital labour politics. This article draws on a four-year multi-method qualitative study in t…
Navigating and resisting platform affordances: Online sex work as digital labor
The context in which labor occurs shapes work. In online work, the platform is one site of work and therefore influences the experiences of workers. Current research on affordances considers how these platform features create value for the platform, shape workers' rights and safety, and reinforce existing racial hierarchies through algorithms. This project, researching online sex work practices in the UK, adds to this literature on platform work …
‘As straight as they come’: Expressions of masculinities within digital sex markets
The research presented in this paper supports claims by feminists and queer theorists that there are numerous and diverse sex/gender/desire categories (Bem, 1995). Taken from a broader digital ethnography of digital sex markets in the United Kingdom, the findings are based on ten in-depth interviews with those who identified as men or ‘gender flexible’ and who buy and/or sell sex within digital markets. The participants featured in this paper use…
A justice-oriented sex work studies roundtable towards research for the community, not the academy
Engaging with academics’ growing appetite for sex work research and the inclusion of sex workers as research collaborators and co-conspirators, our roundtable paper offers some practical considerations on doing sex work research. The roundtable discussion took place in July 2025. Participants included AJ Bravo, Alex Bruno, Aoife Slater-Parry, Carmela Morgillo, Carolina Are, Helen M. Rand, and Leander/Steven Di Costa. To make participation more ac…
Sex work (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (2 works)