While I was going through an interview of bichin’ kitchen Sarah Katherine Lewis, whom I believed to have transformed into a food coordinator and often confounded with Nadia G by now, I stumbled upon new discoveries that I have to clear the misconception once and for all. Lewis was never morphed into a cook nor meant to be one. (Too Bad!?)
I read her first book Indecent when it came out and there were more than a couple of aspects that I found interesting about her such as her consciousness of the class struggle among sex workers and her attempt to arch the working condition of sexworkers to the labor issues per se, especially from the blue color women’s point of view.
While on the net search, however, her website that was active when her second book came out was gone, as well as any one associated with her name. The interview that I linked the above touches upon her depression problem, and this made me think certain things.
All in all, it is a good read and I found a passage that seemed to be noteworthy.
It’s a systemic issue, not a sex industry [specific] issue, which is what blows my mind about “abolitionist” anti-sex work feminists. They argue that they care so much about women’s lives and safety, but I don’t see them working on campaigns with farm workers…
It’s absolutely systemic, and it’s not just women—it’s about dehumanizing the providers of our intimate labor: food, sex, caretaking. The closer the labor is to us, the more we have to pretend they aren’t real people, because I suspect we can’t stand ourselves for needing and wanting it. Nannies, food service workers, it’s all the same. It’s all about Mommy… we need her to wipe our ass not because she’s getting paid, but because she wants to, right? But then of course her labor is devalued because it’s what she is, a good mommy, so why should we pay for that if she’d do it anyway?
I also found this and 6th reason in it –her articulation–was indeed the right one to market herself properly, especially to be distinguished from Nadia G, who seems the very embodiment of what is the opposite of what is discussed there. Don’t Get Me Wrong, Nadia is fine. She just reminds me of Marisa Tomay in the role of the movie My Cousin Vinny a bit too much.
Also, I learned that Sarah Lewis has just released her new writing in 2011, which evidently indicated that she was working on her self-medication while she was away from the internet. Well, good luck with her and her treatment.
