You Gotta do Who You Gotta do: Depicting Queer Sex Work Based on Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls
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Morgan Hunter, Doctoral Student
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My essay discusses Lizzie Borden’s depiction of sex work and how it contrasts from societies expectations of the subject. I mainly focus on the queer sex worker depicted in the film, Molly. I addressed the need for more representation of queer sex workers in the media by using a letter titled, “Dear Queers: A Love Letter from Michigan.” This is a letter from 2014 by Mary Doyle that addresses transphobia in the lesbian community, and it also draws attention to her experience as a queer sex working mom and the implications this had on her due to societal ideals. This pointed out that society still has a view of sex work through a very patriarchal lense even in more recent years, proving that it is a subject that needs more representation in media.
You Gotta do Who You Gotta do: Depicting Queer Sex Work Based on Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls
My essay discusses Lizzie Borden’s depiction of sex work and how it contrasts from societies expectations of the subject. I mainly focus on the queer sex worker depicted in the film, Molly. I addressed the need for more representation of queer sex workers in the media by using a letter titled, “Dear Queers: A Love Letter from Michigan.” This is a letter from 2014 by Mary Doyle that addresses transphobia in the lesbian community, and it also draws attention to her experience as a queer sex working mom and the implications this had on her due to societal ideals. This pointed out that society still has a view of sex work through a very patriarchal lense even in more recent years, proving that it is a subject that needs more representation in media.
