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B2d A Digital Ethnography of FOSTA-SESTA’s Impact on US based Sex Workers
Short Description
High-risk labor conditions and the frequent presence of marginal identities make sex workers a vulnerable population. Nevertheless, they are rarely considered in precarious labor analyses. To address this gap, I investigate how socio-political and economic characteristics of precarious work can be applied to sex workers by conducting an ethnographic investigation of sex worker led podcast interviews from 2021 (N=23). I perform a grounded analysis and thematic coding of interviews to determine the connection between economic and structural work precarity. Findings suggest that sex workers are particularly vulnerable to precarity in the interaction of their financial and socio-political experiences, lending support to growing global evidence on the negative impacts of a 2018 federal legislative change (FOSTA-SESTA) for US based sex workers. Finally, this paper contributes to the growing theoretical and empirical literature on precarious labor, particularly the impact of political conditions on labor precarity for vulnerable populations.
Type of presentation
Accepted Oral Presentation