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capitalist fantasy of self-actualization through professional achievement — is not an exception in Hollywood’s contemporary portrayals of sex work but part of a broader trend.

✏️ The need to always question what is being portrayed to us as “success” and “happiness”. Happiness is a state of mind, a personal choice. When culture shows us that professional achievement is that, we are being taught that. We’re not being exposed to all the possible ways of being happy. 🔗 View Highlight

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Rather than engaging with politics and collective action, many of pop culture’s new sex workers transform their lives by looking good, stacking their money, and not worrying about anybody else.

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Hustlers embodies “post-feminism,” or feminism’s collusion with neoliberalism, in its emphasis on rugged individualism in the marketplace as opposed to coordinated collective political action by and for the majority of women.

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