As Nothing But My Body is published in the UK, Tilly Lawless talks about sex work as a “form of care“, and why friendship matters more than romantic love ❤️
’s visceral prose allows us to follow the looping thread of its narrator’s thoughts, Lawless – as the title suggests – also respects the primacy of the body. The narrator’s physical realm is as important as her cerebral life. We’re in her head but we’re also in her body, experiencing the physicality of her days – getting fucked, swimming naked in the ocean with the waves lapping between her legs, or dog-tired after a long shift at work.
Tilly Lawless: She is a mid-20s, white, queer sex worker in Sydney. That’s the part that comes from my life, I guess.follows this girl across eight days of her life over a year period. Each day is significant and shows the way that our external environment impacts our internal thoughts, as well as the way that the pace of our thoughts will change according to our mental health and emotions.ED: It’s an incredibly significant year ….
‘Care’ is one of those really interesting words. It seems like such a simple word, but I was speaking to a German friend the other day and I used the word ‘care’. I said, ‘How would you say that in German?’ He was like, ‘Oh, I can’t translate that easily in German.’ When you think about it, it’s actually quite a complicated word.I’m glad you noticed that because sometimes people think of things that are cerebral as more valuable than things that are in the body.
ED: That really comes across in your writing, and it’s really refreshing because in the wider cultural imagination there’s this abiding association between prostitution and insincerity. The prostitute archetype in literature and films is often a character who’s forfeited their integrity.Sex workers being perceived as insincere or fake, I mean, I find it so silly because, firstly, people perform in all sorts of jobs.
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