Adrie Rose

While the concept of the stripper index or using spending patterns of sex worker clients as an economic indic…

Above all else, to be a sex worker is to gamble with, and often lose, the ability to become someone, and some…

I'm not a culture critic or writer, but as a writer that often complains about the representation of sex work…

Cooking in Jamaica among family helped me feel closer to my grandmother, like I was carrying on her legacy.

More than five years later, it's difficult to see the vision legislators had in mind when they dreamt up SEST…

As far as class drag goes, the enlightened sex worker trope is probably the least inoffensive, if the most mo…

The world's' deep-rooted history of subjugating marginalised groups, especially sex workers, perpetuates an a…

The demand for some kind of ethereal, otherworldly sense of higher purpose to justify participation in sex wo…

There's been a lot of discourse about raceplay and racial fetish porn in sex worker circles.

Cashmere contributor Adrie Rose explores the fallout sex workers face from online harassment, from both her e…

Dating is already hard enough without the whorephobia, fetishization, and stigma sex workers are forced to fa…

Trying to explain Reddit to someone who has never used the site is difficult. While subreddits are simple eno…

Barrel & Flow, which takes place in Pittsburgh during the second weekend of August, is the most wonderful tim…

In February of last year, a fellow freelancer asked if any writers with a background in sex work would be wil…

I am annoyed. Shocker, but it's true. I was hoping - praying even - that we, as a society, had outgrown the n…

Come in, have a seat, take a load off. I hope your stay in the wonderful world of other people knowing what's…

CW/TW: *Given the ongoing criminalization of sex work in the U.S., all sources have been made anonymous to pr…

Four years later, it's difficult to see the vision legislators had in mind when they dreamt up SESTA/FOSTA - …

When financial institutions are enabled and emboldened to leave us at the mercy of predatory lending and bank…

Given the divisive nature of BDSM (think power plays, intentional pain,, and taboo fantasy), it should come a…

When I first asked my grandmother if I could photograph her for this, she made me wait a full day before givi…

The idea behind it was to show people that there’s more to us than being told where to stand and what to put…

I'm not saying that Jay-Z and UGK's Big Pimpin' starts playing on a loop every time a hot take on sex work dr…

Activism is in its flop era. That's an uncharitable characterization, but based on current events and public …