On trusting in yourself and your process
Author, sex worker, and organizer Liara Roux discusses making the most of your opportunities, going with your gut, and the value of a harsh but constructive critique.
Liara Roux Tells Stoya About the "Whore of New York"
Interview with Stoya
Liara Roux, the 'Whore of New York,' discusses sex work, power, strength and stigma
Brooklyn Magazine interviewed me about my book, Whore of New York
Liara Roux on her confessional, capitalism-skewering book Whore of New York
Interview with Brit Dawson
Gucci and Deux Femmes Noires Celebrate Mickalene Thomas’s Monograph at Art Basel Miami Beach
Author Rax King Will Absolutely Eat a Surprise Cheeseburger
Rax King drops by my book launch party
“Sex Work Can be Intensely Spiritual”: Liara Roux is Ready For Confession
Interview with Dominique Sisley
Instagram Is Punishing Users by Taking Away Their Link Stickers
Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.
Liara Roux’s Debut Is a Vivid, Defiant Meditation on Sex, Labor, and Power
Interview with Emma Specter
‘Whore of New York’ Reflects on Sex, Love and Labor
Review of Whore of New York by Molly Young
Researchers Want to Protect Your Selfies From Facial Recognition
'Fawkes' may be the most advanced system yet for fooling facial recognition tech like Clearview AI—until the algorithms catch up.
'I’d Rather Have Bad Sex Than a Bad Haircut': Liara Roux's New Book Captures the Reality of Sex Work
Interview with Tracy Clark-Flory, author of WANT ME
The 17 Best Butt Plugs You Can Buy Online
Offered my opinions on my favorite butt plugs to The Cut
My Husband Has Declared Our Favorite “Adult” Genre Is Now Off-Limits
Stoya recommends Adventures of Liara Roux!
Everyone Loves Beans Now
There’s an episode of Mad Men I’ve been thinking about lately in which Peggy, tasked with creating an ad campaign for Heinz beans, takes the opportunity to pitch something particularly artful: a bean ballet. She envisions a microphotography camera zooming in on individual beans pirouetting in slow motion, beans somersaulting and spinning, all set to a classical string melody. The Heinz executive isn’t impressed. It’s all too high-concept, plus, beans look pretty gross up close. He wants to know
Sex Workers Aren’t Buying Kamala Harris’ New Tune
During a Thursday night event at The Wing titled “Unpacking Sex Work Stigma & Intersectional Feminism,” a panel of sex workers and activists talked about the deadly aftermath of FOSTA/SESTA and recent pushes toward decriminalizing sex work.
Don’t ask sex workers to solve the problem of violently angry men
Suggesting incels should just pay for sex dehumanizes an already marginalized community.
Sex Workers Say They’re Being Pushed Off Social Media Platforms
Twitter and Instagram say they're enforcing community guidelines, not targeting an industry.
