Working People: A podcast by, for, and about the working class today (now in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network). Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America. In every episode, you'll hear interviews with workers from around the country, from all walks of life. We'll talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes and frustrations. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the country.
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episode 12: Kai
In this episode, we round off our special two-week series on sex work by talking to Kai, a sex worker and DJ in Atlanta, Georgia. Kai is a wonderful, funny person and, in our chat, he shares some really important insights about different kinds of sex work, how sex workers take care of themselves and each other, and about the disastrous real-life implications the SESTA-FOSTA bills have for sex workers. We also talk to Kai about his life story. We talk about having to move from coast to coast as a kid and make new friends in completely different kinds of cities. We talk about finding friends in different groups, and about being a total band kid. We talk about his time at college, we talk about his job delivering weed on his bike all over the city, and we talk about the time Kai met his first client as a sex worker. And we talk about the crucial need for non-sex-worker (“civilian”) allies to speak up in support of sex workers, and to be as loud as possible.
Additional links/info below...
- Aja Romano, Vox, “A New Law Intended to Curb Sex Trafficking Threatens the Future of the Internet as We Know It”
- Emily McCombs, HuffPost, “‘This Bill Is Killing Us’: 9 Sex Workers on Their Lives in the wake of FOSTA”
- Kitty Stryker, Teen Vogue, “What the FOSTA/SESTA Anti-Sex-Trafficking Bill Means”
- Fabian Luis Fernandez, Yale University EliScholar, “Hands Up: A Systematized Review of Policing Sex Workers in the U.S.”
- Sirin Kale, Broadly-VICE, “Police Are Allegedly Sleeping with Sex Workers Before Arresting Them”
- STOP SESTA-FOSTA: stopsesta.org
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)
- Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
- FRANKIE WAH, “Friday Is Not a Day to Have Fun”
- Krackatoa, “Running with Wise Fools”
- Visager, “Overgrown Labyrinth”