S1 E18: Direct Action & Changing Careers at Any Age with Melodie Garcia

When We're Not Hustling: Sex Workers Talking About Everything But

This week we talk to Melodie Garcia, the co-director of the New Moon Network, and a public sector consultant specializing in human services program design, grassroots organizational development, and community engagement.

In her consulting practice, she helps government agencies develop trauma-informed programming for low-resourced and over-policed communities including drug users, sex workers, and people living unhoused.

We talk to Melodie about their history as a sex worker, the way that they are working with sex workers to transfer the valuable skills they have to other sectors, philanthropy, marriage, relationships with clients, the Kendreick Lamar and Drake beef, and so much more!

Guest Recommendations:

Books:

White Women Cry & Call Me Angry: A Black Woman's Memoir on Racism in Philanthropology, by Yanique Redwood

The Holy Hour: An Anthology of Sex Work, Magic, and the Divine, edited by Molly Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy

Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, And the Racial Wages of Rescue, by Elena Shih

Podcasts:

When We're Not Hustling: Sex Workers Talking About Everything But

Music:

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People:

Guest: Melodie Garcia (x: @theworld_onfire; Insta: @melodiekk)

Host: Jessie Sage

Producer: Emily Foster

Music: Benjamin J Benamati

Sponsor: Assembly Four

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