SHIPS LATE JULY

Edition of 300

8 x 11 in

76 pages

Color

Perfect bound soft cover

Design: Sophia Coleman
Co-published with Sming Sming+ SWOPLA

Contributors: Asher Skye, Bobbie Moore, Carmen of Angeles, Cherry, Ele, Ella Lin, Emme Witt-Eden, Ione Wang, Julia SH, Kim Ye, Lena Chen, Lorde Destroyer, Lotus Lain, Sophia Coleman, Sorceress Bebe, Sweet Rosie, Tiffany <3, ™ Dollar, Tracee Michelle Porter, Viví, Yin Q, zara raven

What do erotic labor and child rearing have in common? How do these (normally unpaid) private practices inform one another? ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting is a poetic, honest, and practical look into the experiences of parents who work in the adult industry, challenging societal impulses to separate Madonna from Whore. Through essays, poems, interviews, and art, parents and sex workers share their wisdom, creativity, humor, and grit to reveal how their dual roles as “providers” overlap in complex ways, and how each role helps inform, strengthen, and poses challenges for the other. In this second volume of ProMomme, domestic life and sex work collide and share the same space. Relationships with mothers are psychoanalyzed, challenged, and honored. The continual discovery of desires offers new avenues of opportunities and demands. ProMomme uplifts these personal experiences to destigmatize doing sex work as a parent to celebrate intimate labor in all its forms.

SWOPLA (Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles) is a peer support organization, run by sex workers and for sex workers with a mission to pursue human rights to bodily autonomy, racial and social justice, and mutual liberation through outreach, education, mutual aid, and political advocacy. SWOPLA‘s vision is to usher in the reality where all sex workers are valued and respected.