UNLV Special Collections and Archives and the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies invite you to attend Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance, the second annual Sexual Entertainment and Economies collection event. The event explores sex work, representation, and activism and features authors from the new book Sex Work Today and a special performance of Whore’s Eye View by Kaytlin Bailey. 

This gathering highlights the lives, histories, and agency of those in the erotic economy, opening space for fresh conversations about labor, identity, and justice.

Register to attend.

Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance

Panel 1 – Power and Resistance in Erotic Labor, 1:00 p.m.

Location: Beverly Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101, UNLV

1. Taking Our Words Right Out of Our Mouths: The Appropriation of Sex Worker-Rights Language, Crystal Jackson, Arizona State University 
2. Not a Client, Not a Sex Worker: Dismantling the “Pimp” Stereotype, Stacey Hannem, Wilfrid Laurier University
3. *“Beat Em At Their Game”: The Strategic Deployment of “Victimhood” as Resistance, Lillian Taylor Jungleib, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4. *“The Police Don’t Protect Us!”: Why Sex Workers Don’t Trust the Police, Kaytlin Bailey, Founder & Executive Director Old Pros Network 
5. Disability at the Revolving Door: Perspectives on Mental Illness and Predatory Policing, Summer Lopez Colorado, University of California, Los Angeles

Panel 2: Bodies, Pleasure, and Representation – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Beverly Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101, UNLV

1. The Big Beautiful Women Awards: Fat Latinas in the Porn Industry, Yessica Hernandez, UCLA
2. Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction Among Professional Dominatrixes, Tania Levey, City University of New York.
3. Gifts of Desire: The Erotics of Gift Exchange and Sex Worker Mutual Aid, Kassandra Sparks, Univ of California, Berkeley and Lena Chen, University of California, Berkeley
4. Pornography With Heart: The Holistic Potential of Feminist Porn, Inka Winter, erotic filmmaker and founder of ForPlay Films

Reception – 6:00 p.m. Goldfield Room, Lied Library, UNLV

Whore’s Eye View, Goldfield Room, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Kaytlin Bailey, Founder & Executive Director Old Pros Network 

50 minute show with 30 minute Q&A

Whore’s Eye View is a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex workers’ perspective. Equal parts history lesson, stand-up comedy, and personal storytelling, Kaytlin Bailey masterfully unpacks the age-old stigma underpinning the oldest profession, and a status quo designed to keep women in their place. Kaytlin’s eye-opening message is a compassionate, clarion call, a crash course in history, and a game changing roadmap for progress that can be sustained once and for all.

Sponsors

New Moon Network

Campus Partners

UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives, UNLV College of Liberal Arts, Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of History, Reid Public History Institute, and Department of English