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The Whore Singularity asks: if everyone is naked on the internet, is no one naked on the internet? Made for students new to sex worker history and theory as well as those with prior knowledge, this class traces the history of online sex work, censorship, and surveillance. Students will deepen one another’s understanding of digital whore struggles and triumphs: historical, present, and speculative. Together, students will collectively imagine cybersex utopias grounded in liberation, and share them with their communities during a hybrid showcase at the end of class.
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This class centers the perspectives of people with experience in the sex trades — everyone on the choice-circumstance-coercion spectrum. Allies and accomplices are welcome. No one is required to disclose personal experience.
From JenniCam to Rule 34, online culture has always been synonymous with the human erotic imagination. Not all digitally-mediated erotic expression is labor, but it is all under constant surveillance. Because of this, we all have a stake in the fight against sex work criminalization, anti-porn stigma, and whorephobia.
The Whore Singularity traces key moments in online sex work history alongside contemporary policy regimes such as FOSTA-SESTA and Project 2025, examining how cyberporn has become contested terrain for free expression, labor rights, and bodily autonomy.
Students will learn to see their everyday internet use as built by sex worker necessity, creativity, and organized resistance against injustice, and to recognize the benefits of solidarity with those who are naked on the internet—whether or not they themselves are currently naked online.
Whether you use platforms to market your services, to get off, or to connect with others, your privacy is on the line. Digital sex represents the control that fascists want to win, and the power that everyday people stand to lose.
Through a collective examination of community research reports, social media cultural criticism, sci-fi films, and sex worker art, students will deepen one another’s understanding of digital whore struggles and triumphs including shadowbanning, the broligarchy, femmebot heartbreak, and much more.
What can we all do to fight slut and pervert shaming in the interest of solidarity and liberation for all? What could a cybersex utopia look like, and how do we get there together? Because, to paraphrase José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: “Wh☆reness is not yet here.”
Students will use literary tools of utopian imagining to envision and illustrate whoretopias. The class will conclude with a hybrid showcase based in Los Angeles with remote participation, where students are invited to share their cybersex utopias.
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Tina Horn is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink — a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast of the same name — and the sci-fi comic book series Safe Sex (SfSx). Her journalism on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the Wondery podcast Operator, and in anthologies such as We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she coedited. Tina is known for the theatrical sensibility she brings to her BDSM workshops in feminist sex boutiques, university lectures on sex worker rights, as an emcee at kinky art shows, a panelist and moderator at writing conferences, and commentator in the media. Her work explores the narrative shapes of pervert experiences and the pornographic potential of pop culture. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence in Creative Nonfiction Writing, and is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, and the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards.
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Bitter Kalli (b. 1996) is a writer and land worker born in Brooklyn and based in Philly. They work across mediums including soil, seeds, and printed matter. Bitter is the author of the essay collection ,Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation ,(Amistad/HarperCollins 2025).
Bitter’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in ,BOMB Magazine,, ,Guernica Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail,, ,Arts.Black,, and ,Architectural Digest,, among others. They have received support from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and Columbia University. As a speaker and teaching artist, Bitter has worked with students at organizations including the School for Poetic Computation, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Bitter is the founder of Star Apple Farm and Nursery, a project focused on increasing access to African and Asian diaspora heritage crops.
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