The Tricking Hour

By Irene Silt

What is a world in which work disappears?

"Time has never made any sense to me. Or rather, I am told the way I describe my experience of time does not add up. I am so disconnected from any common meter that I remain in disbelief of that sort of containment. I think this is what makes me a good whore" so begins Irene Silt's The Tricking Hour.

Part anti-work polemic, part sex worker's confession, the luminous essays in The Tricking Hour envision a world organized around collective autonomy, survival, and care, instead of the compulsory exploitation of the body. Silt's dispatches-largely composed between June 2018 and October 2019 and first published as a monthly column in New Orleans' ANTIGRAVITY magazine-are already a cult classic in the movement for sex workers against work. Now collected in book form for the first time, with an additional essay written in 2022, The Tricking Hour is a vital account of sex, labor, and criminality in the twenty-first century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1736210459
• ISBN13: 9781736210451
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Deluge Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"