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Jack Parker
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I'm Jack (he/they) and I write about sex work and transness.

My linktree, where you can find my articles, published works, and newsletter: linktr.ee/JackVParker
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We're fully funded and I am so so grateful to get to make this anthology, only going bigger and better and paying more sex workers than with projects before.

If you'd like to add extra support before the end of the Kickstarter, you've got 4 hours left!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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We're making the final push to get funded over the next few days and you can be part of that by backing the Kickstarter (and bullying those in your network to do the same, especially if they claim to be allies!)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Help us to document trans/intersex sex workers experiences and educate those who want to learn by supporting the anthology! Funding is all or nothing! E-book £5, Paperback £15, Omnibus £35, Bundle £25
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Want to know what you can expect from Transactional Intercourse? A book packed with info about marginalized sex workers, from our own mouths rather than people who seek to speak over us and use our trauma or joy to promote their rhetoric.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Transactional Intercourse: A Trans & Intersex SW Anthology, over 300 pages, Essays about intersecting oppression, personal stories, rants and interviews, Writing from 31 sex workers, all trans and/or intersex, Input from hundreds of sex workers, All contributors paid, First of its kind. What topics will be covered? Advertising sexual services as an intersex person on platforms with binary categories. Differences in treatment of trans and intersex sex workers by country, with a focus on immigrant e*x workers. Using sex work to pay for gender-affirming care. Perspectives on media depictions of Black trans sex workers compared to the reality, with a focus on street sex work. Clients exploring their own sexuality and gender identity during bookings with trans and intersex workers. What topics will be covered? Advertising sexual services as an intersex person on platforms with binary categories. Differences in treatment of trans and intersex sex workers by country, with a focus on immigrant e*x workers. Using sex work to pay for gender-affirming care. Perspectives on media depictions of Black trans sex workers compared to the reality, with a focus on street sex work. Clients exploring their own sexuality and gender identity during bookings with trans and intersex workers.
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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With 4 days left, we're in the final stretch to get this funded! We've raised £11,676 so far of the £15,700 we need and it's all or nothing.

Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
A picture of the Kickstarter page for Transactional Intercourse, showing that the project has raised £11,676 of the £15,700 total goal with 325 backers and 4 days left to go.
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Yes! You can share the project with others, and also share the call for submissions of pitches if you know any trans and/or intersex sex workers who might want to write about their experiences and contribute: forms.gle/kDwRPcHq4faJ...
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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What can you expect to read about in Transactional Intercourse, an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' experiences?

Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
transactional intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology.
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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After a pretty traumatic delivery, I'm finally home from the hospital! Baby is here!

Carrying and delivering her as a trans guy who is very dysphoric was incredibly tough, but she is so worth every bit of pain and struggle. Here as a reminder that being trans doesn't mean you can't become a parent.
A shirtless white trans guy with brown hair, Jack Parker, covered up by sheets on a hospital bed with a baby laying on his chest whose face is censored by a rose. A white trans guy with brown hair, Jack Parker, in a hospital bed with a baby laying on his chest whose face is censored by a rose.
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Officially now a "project we love", and we're slowly but surely getting closer to the goal! There's 25 days to make it, so please shared Transactional Intercourse with your friends and acquaintances and anyone who cares about sex workers!
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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I'm tired of looking for stories from trans and intersex sex workers and finding far more instances of people speaking over us than instances where we get to speak for ourselves. We're 20% of the way to an anthology seeking to combat that!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
A picture of the Kickstarter page showing the project is £3251 funded out of £15700 with 77 backers and 27 days to go. "20% funded"
October 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Everyone who pre-orders a copy helps Transactional Intercourse get made, whether you get an e-book or go for a higher tier with more content and extras! If you have any interest in the lives of trans and/or intersex sex workers, this book will give you insight.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
A graphic showing the options for different tiers when pre-ordering a book, including the ebook for £5/$7, Paperback for £15/$21, Paperback and Quote book for £25/$34 and the Omnibus for £35/$48.
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Just over 24 hours in and we're off to a good start (15% funded with 29 days left)! Getting the rest of the way there is going to be a battle and having people get excited about the anthology and hype it up makes it more likely we'll make it to fully funded.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
A screenshot of the Kickstarter page for Transactional Intercourse showing that it has raised £2,451 out of the £15,700 goal.
October 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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People who do not conform to society's expectations with regards to our sex and gender are either overlooked or made into hypervisible subjects of mockery and hatred, and this is compounded further when we engage in stigmatized labour like sex work. That's why projects like this matter!
A pastel trans flag with a heart shaped version of the intersex flag inside it.
October 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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There's a diversity of experience that often goes unappreciated - intersex sex workers have their own struggles as well as those which overlap with trans workers', women and men and non-binary people each have their own perspectives, all on top of race and class and disability. Let's hear!
“There’s a lot of complicated dynamics that come with navigating things like having clients who are urologists who are actually the ones doing intersex genital mutilation surgery, but then also wanting to pay intersex people for sex when we’re adults... that’s absolutely one of the things that fucks with my mind the most.” “I have really special memories of being at a national intersex conference and having a few of us sneak out of the sessions to talk about being intersex sex workers outside sitting on the floor, and it was the most seen I’ve ever felt in my life to talk with people who really intimately understood.” “It’s hard to see all the fetishizing of transness behind the scenes contrasted by public hate - on a large scale, or the domestic mistreatment trans women experience from the kinds of cis men who would book with me. But doing SW has given me a lot of confidence in, insight into, and control over my transness.” “I’ve been on low dose T for 4 years but am still cis for pay, shaving off all my body hair and feminizing my voice. I would probably be on higher dose of T if not for still needing to girl mode for work.”
September 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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PAID WRITING OPPORTUNITY for trans and/or intersex sex workers! Looking for pitches of essays and personal narratives about your experience in sex work to be included in Transactional Intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology.

Send in your pitches here: forms.gle/UV8TLD8xKGxZ...
Call for submissions of pitches for Transactional Intercourse. £250/£340 per 1000 words.
August 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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A highlight of the survey - so few people said they wouldn't be friends with a sex worker that the segment saying so was almost too small to see on the pie chart!
A pie chart asking "would you be friends with a sex worker" with 4958 responses. In blue, 78.9% of people are shown to be saying yes, 18.7% in orange confirmed they already are, and a small green slither shows "I'm not sure". The red "no" segment is so tiny it's barely visible.
August 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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There are a number of jobs out there with the explicit aim of helping sex workers to find stable employment outside of selling sex. Sometimes they fail in this goal and actually compound our existing struggles, ultimately exploiting us for their own gain.

jackviolet.com/2025/08/08/h...
August 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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This survey is for people who have not done sex work themselves, to gauge both your opinions on sex work and how much you know about it!

Information collected will be used to inform the themes of published work about sex work, as well as educational materials.

forms.gle/rxPbBdEWC7wj...
A black background with text on it in the style of a neon sign, saying "What are your thoughts about sex work? Survey."
August 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Transactional Intercourse: A Trans and Intersex Sex Worker Survey!

This survey is for people who are trans and/or intersex and have either sold sex or made porn. Current and former sex workers are equally welcome!

Click here to fill it out, and please share:
forms.gle/Lcvswp3kZcor...
A black background with text over it saying "Transactional Intercourse Survey" in all caps. The word "transactional" is in the trans flag colours and the word "intercourse" is all in yellow with the "o" being purple to mimic the intersex flag.
August 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The People's Letters is a radical co-operative bookshop rising from the ashes of The Scarlett Letters. We have a mission to uplift marginalized authors, especially sex workers.

You can now support us on Patreon!
www.patreon.com/peoplesletters
A poster on a blue background sharing information about The People's Letters Patreon.
July 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I don't know how many of you have ever been through a break-in at home or forced entry into a squat/occupied space like this, but it's traumatic. It stays with you.

They gutted a place that was supposed to be for the community that we put love and time into.
An almost empty bookshop with rubbish scattered on the floor and holes in the walls.
July 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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We frantically tried to call for help but no-one was awake besides one other employee who ran to us from their home. I felt too sick and shocked to speak at first, and my co-worker livestreamed - it took time for me to begin challenging Marin's paid help beyond documenting it.
People in the bookshop with boxes. Shelves full of books with people removing them.
July 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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After we unionized to fight for the fixed-hour contracts we were promised, sick pay and fair pay for additional tasks, she announced she'd close the shop rather than meet out demands (which could easily be afforded). That's the background for why we took this action.
All booksellers at The Scarlett Letters are demanding guaranteed-hours contracts as promised. An explanation of why 0 hours contracts are exploitative. TSL employees were promised fixed hour contracts.
July 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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At 4am on July 1st, my boss broke into the bookshop that myself and my co-workers were peacefully occupying while I was asleep downstairs.

Our sole demand was that the stock be donated to us so that it could continue serving the sex worker community, as the Scarlett Letters CIC assets legally must.
A bookshop full of people packing boxes. Boxes full of books with people dismantling shelves.
July 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Hooker Mentality is finally out! That means you can now get the e-book for £3.99/$5 at
Itch: mxjackparker.itch.io/hooker-menta...
Gumroad: jackparker.gumroad.com/l/hm
Two pink brains on a glittery background with two paperback copies of Hooker Mentality at the sides. Over the brains are the words "Hooker Mentality" and "Read about how selling sex gives hookers an insight into the systems which control us all."
June 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Look what arrived today! I finally have copies in my hands and I'm blown away by the number of pre-orders so far. Official release date is June 27th!
A white hand holding a copy of Hooker Mentality. A white brunette person with short hair wearing a black shirt, the author Jack Parker, holding a copy of Hooker Mentality. A white hand holding a copy of Hooker Mentality, in front of 50 more copies stacked on a wooden chest.
June 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM