Conclusion

This chapter draws together the core themes discussed throughout the book, and points to avenues for future research along with potential ways forward for activism and policy. The author considers how queer, feminist, and leftist agendas might align forces with the sex workers’ movement in order to contest the appropriation and devaluation of feminized labor under capitalism. Emphasizing the need for critiques of capitalism to center rather than marginalize the question of sexuality going forward, the chapter calls for the left to pursue a plurality of strategies and coalitions if it is successfully to challenge neoliberal capitalism, including by reclaiming the commons.