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Adrie Rose

Pittsburgh
As seen in: MSN, NBC News, Observer, The Daily Dot, Truthout, Autostraddle, Prism, Literary Mama, Massachusetts Review, Sweet July and
Covers:  Sex, Sex Work, Mental Health, Race, Gender, Social Media
chaotic good. co-host of pages & prejudice pod. sex/work writer. portrait photographer. chronically just like other girls. ai hot take generator. went to 🦋.
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The Stripper Index: Sex Workers and the Gift of Prophecy

The Stripper Index: Sex Workers and the Gift of Prophecy

tryst.link — While the concept of the stripper index or using spending patterns of sex worker clients as an economic indicator is more of an anecdotal or observational theory rather than a widely recognized economic principle, it holds up to consistent scrutiny, especially now.
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Everyone Wants To Be a Ho, No One Wants To Be a Whore

Everyone Wants To Be a Ho, No One Wants To Be a Whore

tryst.link — Above all else, to be a sex worker is to gamble with, and often lose, the ability to become someone, and something, else after leaving the industry.
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Power Plays

Power Plays

tryst.link — I'm not a culture critic or writer, but as a writer that often complains about the representation of sex work in popular media, I threw my hat in the ring for the opportunity.
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Sian's Caribbean Kitchen: Honoring My Grandmother's Legacy Through Cooking​ - Sweet July

Sian's Caribbean Kitchen: Honoring My Grandmother's Legacy Through Cooking​ - Sweet July

Sweet July — Cooking in Jamaica among family helped me feel closer to my grandmother, like I was carrying on her legacy.
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Who's The Real Enemy?

Who's The Real Enemy?

tryst.link — More than five years later, it's difficult to see the vision legislators had in mind when they dreamt up SESTA/FOSTA - unless the vision was a digital hellscape of censorship and hand wringing with devastating "irl" consequences.
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Thoughts on Class Drag, Active Length, Square French Tips, and Red (Spray Paint) Bottoms

Thoughts on Class Drag, Active Length, Square French Tips, and Red (Spray Paint) Bottoms

tryst.link — As far as class drag goes, the enlightened sex worker trope is probably the least inoffensive, if the most mockable. Is it annoying? Yes, absolutely.
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The Therapy Isn't Working as Promised

The Therapy Isn't Working as Promised

tryst.link — The world's' deep-rooted history of subjugating marginalised groups, especially sex workers, perpetuates an atmosphere of fear, harassment, and vulnerability.
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I Got a Real Job. When Does the Empowerment Happen?

I Got a Real Job. When Does the Empowerment Happen?

tryst.link — The demand for some kind of ethereal, otherworldly sense of higher purpose to justify participation in sex work is an attempt to invalidate every other aspect of a person's existence beyond their job.
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IDK about BBC

IDK about BBC

tryst.link — There's been a lot of discourse about raceplay and racial fetish porn in sex worker circles.
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Trauma Behind The Screen: On Sex Work, PTSD, and Cyberstalking

Trauma Behind The Screen: On Sex Work, PTSD, and Cyberstalking

Cashmere Magazine — Cashmere contributor Adrie Rose explores the fallout sex workers face from online harassment, from both her experiences and others.
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Sex workers want love and respect in relationships. Why is that too much to ask for?

Sex workers want love and respect in relationships. Why is that too much to ask for?

Cashmere Magazine — Dating is already hard enough without the whorephobia, fetishization, and stigma sex workers are forced to face. Here's how to date one.
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Reddit moderators target trans people and sex workers

Reddit moderators target trans people and sex workers

Prism — Trying to explain Reddit to someone who has never used the site is difficult. While subreddits are simple enough to understand, explaining upvotes and karma-which amount to little more than fake internet points awarded at the discretion of strangers-requires a broad ability to laugh at yourself.
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Black Joy Through Food: Barrel & Flow Fest - Sweet July

Black Joy Through Food: Barrel & Flow Fest - Sweet July

Sweet July — Barrel & Flow, which takes place in Pittsburgh during the second weekend of August, is the most wonderful time of the year for me.
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Playing with Power

Playing with Power

Substack.com — In February of last year, a fellow freelancer asked if any writers with a background in sex work would be willing to review a yet-to-be-released Netflix documentary, Strip Down, Rise Up. I'm not a culture critic or writer, but as a writer that often complains about the representation of sex work in popular media, I threw my hat in the ring for the opportunity.
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You Can't Buy Love

You Can't Buy Love

sexworkceo.com — I am annoyed. Shocker, but it's true. I was hoping - praying even - that we, as a society, had outgrown the need for dating coaches hawking their pseudo-feminist wares in the form of unformatted e-books and virtual classroom sessions.
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A Sex Worker's Guide to a Life Without Bodily Autonomy

A Sex Worker's Guide to a Life Without Bodily Autonomy

tryst.link — Come in, have a seat, take a load off. I hope your stay in the wonderful world of other people knowing what's best for you and your body is a pleasant one. I know many of you are new here - you never dreamed you'd make it in your lifetime.
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Sex workers continue to organize despite political hostility

Sex workers continue to organize despite political hostility

Prism — CW/TW: *Given the ongoing criminalization of sex work in the U.S., all sources have been made anonymous to protect their identities as a vulnerable population. Some quotes have been edited for length and/or clarity. In February 2019, almost two years before the presidential election, candidates described their efforts as a " battle for the soul of America."
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Guess Who's Doing the Grooming

Guess Who's Doing the Grooming

Substack.com — Four years later, it's difficult to see the vision legislators had in mind when they dreamt up SESTA/FOSTA - unless the vision is a digital hellscape of censorship and hand wringing with devastating "irl" consequences.
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"Easy" Money

"Easy" Money

Sex Work CEO — When financial institutions are enabled and emboldened to leave us at the mercy of predatory lending and bank-adjacent companies just to make ends meet, we cannot hope to achieve financial parity.
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Niche Content

Niche Content

Sex Work CEO — Given the divisive nature of BDSM (think power plays, intentional pain,, and taboo fantasy), it should come as no surprise that there's a consumer demand for non-threatening opportunities to learn in private.
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Black Joy Through Food: Sian's Caribbean Kitchen - Sweet July

Black Joy Through Food: Sian's Caribbean Kitchen - Sweet July

Sweet July — When I first asked my grandmother if I could photograph her for this, she made me wait a full day before giving me an answer. As my mother put it, "She loves you too much to say no, but she hates being photographed too much to say yes." Luckily, she gave in.
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Adrie Meets the Pope

Adrie Meets the Pope

Sex Work CEO — The idea behind it was to show people that there’s more to us than being told where to stand and what to put in our mouths – to show the human side of us.
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Paternalism, Prostitution, and Paying for It on the Left

Paternalism, Prostitution, and Paying for It on the Left

tryst.link — 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 drops from a new Twitter account with a rose emoji in the name. (Although, in recent months I've switched up my rotation by including WAP and Kentheman's Rose Gold Stripper Pole.)
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Defund the Celebrity Activism Industrial Complex

Defund the Celebrity Activism Industrial Complex

Wear Your Voice — Activism is in its flop era. That's an uncharitable characterization, but based on current events and public sentiment it's an apt one in the wake of CBS' announcement for their soon to be revamped activist game show-turned documentary. I did not have Survivor: Activism Wars on my bingo card for 2021 but I am also not surprised.
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