Reposted by Stephanie KaylorWorking Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Our Liquid Silver Kickstarter is LIVE! For the next 59 days we have our pre-sale period open for people who want to back this amazing project. You can buy the book or explore the other reward tiers for exclusive offers we only make to our Kickstarter backers! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wor... 02416
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorPrincess Marx, Los Angeles Dominatrix⛓️ @princessmarx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Omg omg omg!! I just got word that My pitch for the "Foremothers/Whoremothers" anthology was accepted by @workinggirlspress.bsky.social! I'm so excited🥳This will be the first full length piece I'll have in print!😍 In 2024, I published a poem in ProMomme Vol 1 (@smingsmingbooks.bsky.social), and.. 3185
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorStephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026last day to submit a pitch, essays due at the end of the year! If you can’t meet the word count for pitches today let us know and we can work something out. Specifically looking for more experimental pieces, pieces that explore gender and sexual violence as well as humor! Can be from men/masc sw 033
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorYenn dc ☂️ @yenndc.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026Call for essays/pitches extended: «Our foremothers, our whoremothers: Sex workers on legacy, mentorship, and inspiration» 🗓 Deadline: August 30th 2026 👥 Working Girls Press 🇺🇸 ℹ️ Full information […] [Original post on kolektiva.social] 031
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026last day to submit a pitch, essays due at the end of the year! If you can’t meet the word count for pitches today let us know and we can work something out. Specifically looking for more experimental pieces, pieces that explore gender and sexual violence as well as humor! Can be from men/masc sw 033
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorWorking Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Don't forget we have an open call for essays! Edited by @stemkay.bsky.social , "Our Foremothers, Our Whoremothers" will be an anthology dedicated to the unsung and unseen heart and soul of sex worker communities. Check out the full call below! workinggirlspress.subfolios.com/submit/587/o...workinggirlspress.subfolios.com Working Girls Press Working Girls Press's submission manager. View Working Girls Press's calls for submission. 0138
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorZara Louise 💜 Vancouver @mszaralouise.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This is a cool opportunity for any sex working writers to share their experiences with mentorship within our industry and lovely communities! 091
Reposted by Stephanie Kaylordzz Yenn @dz-yenn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026👇 Great opportunity for SWing writers, or SWers who like writing~ 063
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorWorking Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Who are our whoremothers and foremothers? In our upcoming anthology, edited by @stemkay.bsky.social , we want to explore the lesser-known figures that have shaped our whorestory and pay homage to them. Check out the full call for submissions here! workinggirlspress.subfolios.com/submit/587/o... 04216
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorNikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 13/05/20263 copies left 086
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorStephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I’m editing an anthology with Working Girls Press about sex workers who’ve helped us get our footing, from advice in the locker room, to screening tips, to lesser known advocates who introduced us to the movement for rights. See the call here: workinggirlspress.subfolios.com/submit/587/o... 01713
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I’m editing an anthology with Working Girls Press about sex workers who’ve helped us get our footing, from advice in the locker room, to screening tips, to lesser known advocates who introduced us to the movement for rights. See the call here: workinggirlspress.subfolios.com/submit/587/o... 01713
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorStephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Beginning later this week! Tickets are set to a higher price for in person attendees in Berlin, but tickets for the virtual option are as low as $15 for all 5 days. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-annual...eventbrite.comTHE ANNUAL BLACK SWer CONFERENCEThe 8th Annual Black SWer Conference is back, April 25–28 in Berlin, under the organization theme “This Bridge Called Our Backs.” 0108
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Given that 1/3 of people murdered by strangers are murdered by cops, it's criminal negligence not to consider cops FIRST when the identity of a killer is unknown. 21210
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Beginning later this week! Tickets are set to a higher price for in person attendees in Berlin, but tickets for the virtual option are as low as $15 for all 5 days. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-annual...eventbrite.comTHE ANNUAL BLACK SWer CONFERENCEThe 8th Annual Black SWer Conference is back, April 25–28 in Berlin, under the organization theme “This Bridge Called Our Backs.” 0108
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorChloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Saturday thread of stuff I've published so far this year! For your reading pleasure (or displeasure if you do not like it): First up: a creepy story in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social about how you can't go home againvol1brooklyn.comSunday Stories: “We Buy Houses”We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c… 12717
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorInterrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Young artists aged 16-24 who have been directly impacted by criminalization/policing/punishment can apply for this residency & get $2500 to work on a creative project! Visit bit.ly/diyresidency26 to learn more. Please help us spread the word! 28890
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorThe Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/04/2026"No word, no bond. Row on, / drawn onward, / deified. / Pull up if I pull up." From "“DRAB AS A F OOL, AS A LOOF AS A BARD,” a new poem by @cuckedtodeath.bsky.social for National Poetry Month. ➡️ buff.ly/AMvS6Br 042
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorAnarresAnsible @anarresansible.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The video in the article clearly shows sex workers getting put in handcuffs and led away in police cars, yet they still use the grotesque euphemism of "rescue" when this happens. And many people who now scream about ICE raids accept this as being "normal" when it's anything but. 03519
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorStephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 23/01/2026If you advertise on @tryst.link, a reminder that you can get advertising credits through a donation to the Black Sex Workers Collective via the Tryst donation matching program. The collective does so much on a global scale, and donations help people in emergency situations thebswc.org/donate/thebswc.orgDonate to the BSWCWe love it when people donate to the BSWC. We are a philanthropic arts project seeking to amplify the voices of Black Sex Workers. 023
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 23/01/2026If you advertise on @tryst.link, a reminder that you can get advertising credits through a donation to the Black Sex Workers Collective via the Tryst donation matching program. The collective does so much on a global scale, and donations help people in emergency situations thebswc.org/donate/thebswc.orgDonate to the BSWCWe love it when people donate to the BSWC. We are a philanthropic arts project seeking to amplify the voices of Black Sex Workers. 023
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 17/12/2025I’m looking for help finding an attorney in California familiar with FERPA who could help with a case of the university accidentally leaking my medical records (related to my pregnancy) to another individual 125
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorLAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Ron Schatz spoke to curators Joe and Delsa White when visiting their ongoing "Labor & Art" exhibit at the Bost Building in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Learn more about it at LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2025/11/04/l...lawcha.org“Labor & Art” in Homestead, Pennsylvania | LAWCHAI am a historian who studied with David Montgomery at the University of Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, a tumultuous time in labor and working-class history. 021
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorLorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I honestly don't want to have any conversation that doesn't start from accepting that hex work is morally neutral & that hex workers deserve to live free from incarceration and policing. Let's also take a minute to acknowledge that we can't even talk about it in our most-used public spaces (here) 2253
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Someone @ me when this place becomes a platform for sickos and cyberbullying ideological enemies and not just vote blue / “# poetry community” posting 140
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorVicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · 26/10/2025www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...feedingamerica.orgFind Your Local Food Bank | Feeding AmericaFind the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community. 034
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 18/09/2025“sex workers are smart sex workers are kind sex workers are talented sex workers aren’t all mentally ill” starting my own dumb whore brigade to fight for our rights too 050
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025who are some younger sex worker poets writing (at least a little bit) in relation to their labor? Every now and then I come across zoomers I haven’t heard of with publishers I haven’t heard of and I want to do pay more attention to what they’re building 010
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorNikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 30/07/2025periodic reminder that I have a patreon called Working Notebook: poetry drafts, out of print chapbooks, and photography. subscriptions start at $1 or build your own: www.patreon.com/nikkiwallsch...patreon.comGet more from Working Notebook on Patreonpoetry, photography, prose 93814
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorNikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 11/09/2025They can't even tell it like it is and this is the party that is supposed to protect us?!!! The party we're supposed to vote for and support?! 241
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Throughout the article she speaks to creator after creator who tell her that while the work is hard, they like it and it offers them opportunities and revenue that other work doesn't. Her conclusion? This career is a bad idea. 413831
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 11/09/2025giving myself a screen time limit on google docs so I stop wasting hours obsessing over line breaks 040
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 11/09/2025smolbeanery really has destroyed a generation of writers 120
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Natalie Diaz on Mary Oliver. Lots of beauty in the way Diaz looks at place and personhood in these poems. lithub.com/natalie-diaz...lithub.comNatalie Diaz: Seeing is Feeling in Mary Oliver’s PoetryWhat does it mean, say the words, that the earth is beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live? These are the qu… 6387
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorJessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025After years of (legitimate/health) delays, I received initial proofs with comments from my poetry publisher for the first 2 books of The Daybooks (which is 4 books long). Exciting!!! Maybe they will come out soon. I’ve kind of refocused my energy to other projects so I don’t get impatient. 2493
Reposted by Stephanie Kaylortronotized.bsky.social @tronotized.bsky.social · 09/09/2025This is a really fantastic piece! 121
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 09/09/2025“According to O'Donnell, patrol members approach a woman and politely identify themselves. ‘The usual pattern is, if she's a prostitute, she gets very angry very quickly,’ he said. ‘She'll either yell at us or walk away.’” From a 1984 article on sex workers resistance to a citizens patrol group 030
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorSex Worker Writes • Madeleine Blair @madeleineblair.bsky.social · 09/09/2025See you tonight! 031
Reposted by Stephanie Kaylorandy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 09/09/2025It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together. 815073
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I also wrote autotheory about one of my specialties, sex workers being bitchy online, burning bridges with managers via Twitter, social media whore friends amidst isolation && sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou... 031
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Never shared on here but last winter I had a short story come out about a sex worker trying to get pregnant so she could abort client-fetuses and you can order the zine it’s in all proceeds going to abortion funds www.abobozine.com/product-page... 022
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 23/05/2025hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148... 132041
Reposted by Stephanie KaylorCammy! @camelliagrass.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Hey Philly area writers, if you've ever wanted to work with me on cnf/essay/memoir but you haven't had the chance because I mostly teach within the academy, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. I'm teaching for Blue Stoop this fall! Six weeks, in-person, starting 10/16. Spots are legit filling fast! 11414