In recent decades, there has been a marked increase in technologies of social control (Marx 2001). In response, we have built a space for intellectual self-defense. We are a collective of women, sex workers, and citizen journalists committed to investigating corruption and conducting in-depth reporting. Our mission is to share the knowledge and precautions necessary for an informed public—a vital foundation for a healthy democracy.
In 1970, Canadian cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted: "World War III will be a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” We are living that war right now. Women and sex workers, the fight is bigger than you may realize. Sex work isn’t just about labor—it’s about our bodies, minds, families, social structures, and love lives. And as Voltaire put it: "If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize." How do we sift through the noise and unite as a people?
Big Tech and globalization have completely changed the game—this is not your grandfather's capitalism. Sex workers aren’t the only ones losing control over their own business data. Big Tech giants now own, analyze, sort, and extract value from our information, profiting from what was once a private and personal exchange. This is more than capitalism—this is techno-feudalism (Varoufakis 2023). Sexual behavior, once an intrinsic part of life, has become a privately owned commodity.
What if we thought differently about value? What if we looked to more primitive or experimental economic systems, like bartering, to understand how we might rewire our society around pro-social behavior rather than capital accumulation? And what if (instead of money) something innately human became the currency of exchange?
