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About this book
An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreword by Charlotte Shane
So What If I'm a Puta, originally published on author Amara Moira's popular blog of the same name, consists of forty-four crônicas that wryly portray her experiences as a trans sex worker in Brazil. In a brazen, funny, and at times heartbreaking voice, Moira explores the political and personal textures of her encounters with the men who buy sex from her, and the complex reality of her labor of a sort of love.
Woven through Moira's essays are reflections on transition, safe sex, desire, whorephobia, consent—in the grim context of Brazil's record rates of violence against trans women. Ultimately, Moira writes to center trans sex workers in Brazil's putafeminist movement, modeling a feminism that envisions inclusivity, safety, self-determination, and joy for us all.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 01. Maybe One Day
- 02. The Beginning, Ah, The Beginning
- 03. Cruising Lessons
- 04. Little Girlfriend
- 05. Inflatable Doll
- 06. Today I’ll Know Love
- 07. A Tranny to Date
- 08. A Different Kind of Sixty-Nine
- 09. Things Said Between Travestis
- 10. The OGs
- 11. On the Hood of the Car
- 12. My Porn Debut
- 13. On Top and Liking It
- 14. Freebie
- 15. Shitty Men Outdo Themselves
- 16. Today I Didn’t Make a Mess
- 17. Radical Travestis
- 18. Men Will Be Men
- 19. Sometimes Shit Happens
- 20. Hate Bite
- 21. When It’s Time to Do It, I Do It
- 22. What Do Sex Workers Want?
- 23. This Puta is a Poet
- 24. Escapades on Easter
- 25. One Year of Amara, Two Levels of Fuck It
- 26. Monologues of the Trash
- 27. Object of Desire, Abject Body
- 28. Now You’ve Earned Your Twenty
- 29. The Minefield in the Bushes
- 30. Oh, If There Were No Risks!
- 31. Where’s the Condom?
- 32. Please Stop, I Came Here to Fuck
- 33. Sex Under the Moonlight
- 34. Yada Yada, Body Odor, In and Out
- 35. You’re Way Too Hot
- 36. The Truck Motel
- 37. Too Many Trucks for Too Little Sand5
- 38. A Puta in Europe
- 39. Your Girlfriend for Fifty an Hour
- 40. The Travesti’s Sad Fate
- 41. Possible Loves
- 42. Sex Work and Free Love
- 43. Not with That Lipstick
- 44. If They Only Knew
- Acknowledgments
- Also Available from the Feminist Press
- About the Author and Translators
- About the Feminist Press