@mxjackparker.bsky.social
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
What a wild thread....
21.01.2026 09:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
β¨OUR CROWDFUNDER IS LIVE! β¨
The Peopleβs Letters is crowdfunding to help sustain our worker-owned cooperative bookshop and community space rooted in solidarity.
Please support or share if you can!
tinyurl.com/2d8f54hj
If you're in the UK then I highly recommend the zine tier, which is well worth it for the zines and art prints alone by our resident artist.
... and you can feel confident your money is going to paying working class people's wages instead of lining bosses pockets. ;)
A poster about The People's Letters Patreon, showing: The Bookseller's Letters tier which includes reviews and a free copy of Working Guys, The Eventful Letters tier offering 2 event passes plus the lower tier benefits, The Posted Letters which includes art prints and zines, and The Whole Alphabet tier which gets you everything!
If you've ever thought about getting an e-book copy of Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology, you can get it for the same price as elsewhere by subscribing to www.patreon.com/peoplesletters lowest tier!
We're a worker co-op bookshop with a radical leftist ethos who could use support.
A tale of union-busting, desperation to take a break from sex work, and a hostile work environment.
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
I go to bed before midnight now and I get up between 6 and 8 AM. That's unfathomable to me, as someone who has had chronic insomnia my entire life, but it's true. Baby exhausts me enough in the day that I can sleep at night and sleeps enough hours for me to be okay!
19.12.2025 11:28 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0[Do not read this if you're also a new parent because you will hate me!]
I'm sleeping more hours, on a better schedule, than I did before having my baby. Way better than during pregnancy, but also better than *before* I was pregnant.
Baby sleeps between 6.5 and 9 hours uninterrupted per night!
Plus, hint hint nudge nudge, there are some additional excerpts, quotes, sneak peek, and a few author bios from the TRANSactional Intercourse anthology posted to the most recent Kickstarter update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
How many of you will be able to guess which excerpt is from me? π€
I'm so eagerly awaiting the publication of this anthologyβand beside myself for the opportunity to share one of my own stories in it!
Also, in case you question how cool @mxjackparker.bsky.social is, when I asked to be compensated in crypto, despite having no experience with it he did exactly thatβ£οΈ
If you want an early copy, you can still pre-order through Kickstarter until it closes in the first week of January - and you can check out the most recent update for more snippets!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
"In these relationships, stigma doesnβt announce itself with slurs. It whispers. It hides in well-meaning words - in βI donβt even think of you as trans,β as if that were a kindness, as if my womanhood needed purification from its history."
"To be intersex, autistic, and a sex worker in a society that worships normalcy is to live with overlapping hauntings."
"Our family wasnβt destroyed by sex work. It was destroyed by hatred of sex workers."
Almost all of the contributors to Transactional Intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology, have sent in their pieces and the editing is well underway! It will soon be complete and anyone who backed via Kickstarter will get it in February (broader publication to happen in April).
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A tale of union-busting, desperation to take a break from sex work, and a hostile work environment.
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
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...
That's really sweet to hear, I love that the work is getting out there!
31.10.2025 15:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Many of the contributors to Working Guys did this and wrote about it! workingguys.carrd.co
Additionally, I wrote a piece about my experience of it for THORN (Trans Hooker Resistance Movement), available free here: jackviolet.com/2025/08/21/t...
Really excited to see this project hit its goal, and now aiming for stretch goals! I've contributed - won't you?
31.10.2025 09:58 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0It's almost there, let's give a last push~! β€οΈβπ₯
30.10.2025 10:11 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
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...
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 Β£5, Paperback Β£15, Omnibus Β£35, Bundle Β£25
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...
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.
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...
Last week the fundraiser covered more than half of the goal.
We're still in time, let's repeat that! ^~
A picture of the Kickstarter page for Transactional Intercourse, showing that the project has raised Β£11,676 of the Β£15,700 total goal with 325 backers and 4 days left to go.
With 4 days left, we're in the final stretch to get this funded! We've raised Β£11,676 so far of the Β£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...
transactional intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology.
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...
Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
Trying to help push this awesome-looking book edited by @mxjackparker.bsky.social over the finish line!
Transactional Intercourse, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
Yes, until November 1st!
26.10.2025 21:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
Thanks so much for sharing and for backing the project, it means a lot! π
26.10.2025 14:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
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