2025: Book written by/about that includes the perspective of a sex worker
Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!
read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts
about prompt support posts
All of the prompt support posts (those that begin with "2025: Book written by...", for example) are organized similar to each other.
Each of these posts was created to support the Read, Seed, Water Feed book challenge on Storygraph that I am hosting. They were also created to support learning outside of the university, collective educational efforts, finding new authors to read, finding books, and more.
For each book challenge prompt, I will share the following sections:
- one or more slides with books I have read or am currently reading that I recommend for the prompt
- a list of additional books from my TBR (to-be-read) list for the prompt
- a text listing of the books that I shared in the slides
I might share one or more of the following in addition, depending on capacity and other factors:
- other supportive text as appropriate, such as countries included
- some quotes, notes, and/or reflections about one or more of the books
- links to other posts on the site where I discuss the books or prompt in more detail
I did many things to minimize hierarchy within these posts, and there will still be some things that might feel odd, such as split galleries of slides, which was a choice made to address current limitations in how the galleries work.
If interested, find bingo cards, more background on the prompts, and other reflections, on the Reading Challenge page and if on Storygraph, join the challenge.
Mostly, my goal for prompt support posts is to share books for each prompt, as suggestions and as examples. This section will be first on every post and may be skipped.
Thank you for reading.
Recommended Books
Books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 reading challenge prompt and description, showing books recommended that I have read or am currently reading. All recommended books are listed lower in the post in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”
More Books from my TBR List
For some prompts, I’m trying to diversify what I read; for others, deepening my knowledge while also growing my perspective. For some prompts, there are definitely more books on my to-be-read (TBR) list than the ones I share that I have read or am currently reading. Here are some of those books:
Fiction
- On Black Sisters Street (2007) by Chika Unigwe
Nonfiction
- To Live Freely in this World (2016) by Chi Adanna Mgbako
Essays
- Coming Out Like A Porn Star: Essays On Pornography, Protection, and Privacy (2015) edited by Jiz Lee
Memoir
- How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) by Amber Dawn
Poetry
- Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry (2019) edited by Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
Fiction
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (2019) by Elif Shafak
Jonny Appleseed (2018) by Joshua Whitehead
Little Rot (2024) by Akwaeke Emezi
The Salt Roads (2004) by Nalo Hopkinson
Nonfiction
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary (2023) by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy with Toshio Meronek.
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (2018) by Molly Smith, Juno Mac
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction (2022) by Shira Hassan
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Thank you for reading.
