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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4435219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Kevon Glover (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 553-571 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-9154913 |
| OpenAlex | W3192752845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article investigates sex work among Black transgender women in Chicago's ballroom scene, drawing on ethnographic data to argue that Black transwomen engage in sex work as a practice of self-investment undergirded by an epistemological shift regarding the centrality of affective labor to their work. In so doing, interlocutors reap the benefits of deploying embodied knowledge-the harnessing and transformation of insight derived from lived experiences of racial, gender, and sexual subjection into useful strategies, tactics, and tools-to secure material and human resources necessary for survival. A focus on how Black transwomen live, despite continued physical, spiritual, socioeconomic, political, and cultural annihilation, remains critically important given the myriad indicators (low average life expectancy, low annual income, disproportionally high murder rate, etc.) that expose the world's indifference to the plight of this community and Black bodies writ large. Further, the author places interlocutors in conversation with Black feminist historians' and theorists' discussions of sex work among Black women to expose points of convergence between Black cis- and transgender women. The author also complicates narratives that link sex work to "survival" and subsequently obfuscate explorations of limited and situated agency among Black women that have significant historical precedent
Agency (philosophy) · Foregrounding · Narrative · Sex work · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Scenes of subjection
I've Got to Make My Livin'
The Color of Kink
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Mais Viva
Critical Issues and New Directions in Sex Work Research
Sex workers, fem queens, and cross-dressers
Structural and Environmental Barriers to Condom Use Negotiation With Clients Among Female Sex Workers
The alchemy of race and rights
Laboring Women
Perceived Risks and Benefits of Sex Work among Transgender Women of Color in San Francisco
Temporarily Yours
Practicing Love
Black Sex in the Quiet
Redefining Realness
Practicing Love
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |