Publications, conferences, exhibitions and performances. Where permitted, I’ve either linked to a full text or provided a downloadable PDF of published articles.
Publications:
Books
Easterbrook-Smith, G. Sex Work and COVID-19 in the New Zealand Media: Avoid the moist breath zone. 2023. Bristol University Press.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker: An analysis of media representations. 2022. Rowman and Littlefield.
Articles and Chapters:
Easterbrook-Smith, G. and Weinhold, C. (2024) “Upmarket Boudoirs and Red Lights: the physical environment of sex workplaces in New Zealand.” Social and Cultural Geography. doi: 10.1080/14649365.2024.2410272
nb: this article is open access and can be viewed at the above link.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2024) “’Boy Smell’: transgender and nonbinary people’s experiences of bodily smell”. Culture, Health & Sexuality. Doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2379871
nb: this article is open access and can be viewed at the above link.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2024) “Working Girl.” Radical History Review: Special Issue. ‘Troubling Terms’. Vol. 2024, no. 149, pp. 35-37. doi: 10.1215/01636545-11027326
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Transgender healthcare, telehealth, venture capital and community”. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture. 2023. Vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 159-175. DOI: 10.1386/qsmpc_00096_1
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Sex Workers’ Online Humor as Evidence of Resilience”. Sexes. 2023. Vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 310-326. DOI: 10.3390/sexes4020021.
nb: this article is open access and can be viewed at the above link.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Love what you do (and it’ll become increasingly difficult to agitate for workplace rights): Sex, work, and rejecting the empowerment discourse.” The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Edited by Emma Rees. 2022. Routledge. pp. 359-368.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Onlyfans as Gig-Economy Work: A nexus of precarity and stigma”. Porn Studies. 2022. doi: 10.1080/23268743.2022.2096682
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Stigma, Invisibility, and Unattainable ‘Choices’ in Sex Work”. Sexualities. 2022. doi: 10.1177/13634607211060503
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “By Bread Alone: Baking as Leisure, Performance, Sustenance, During the COVID-19 Crisis.” Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response, edited by Brett Lashua, Corey W. Johnson and Diana Parry. 2022. Routledge.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Skin in the Game: Imposter Syndrome and the Insider Sex Work Researcher.” The Palgrave Handbook of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ in Higher Education, edited by Michelle Addison, Maddie Breeze and Yvette Taylor. 2022. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 173 – 187.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Shame, Subjectivity and Pandemic Productivity”. Acta Academica. 2021. Vol. 53, No. 2. pp. 164-174. doi: 10.18820/24150479/aa53i2/9
NB: This article is open access, the full version can be viewed at the above link.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Resisting division: migrant sex work and ‘New Zealand working girls'”. Continuum. 2021. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2021.1932752
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “By Bread Alone: Baking as Leisure, Performance, Sustenance, During the COVID-19 Crisis.” Leisure Sciences. 2021. Vol. 43, No. 1-2. pp. 36-42. doi: 10.1080/01490400.2020.1773980
NB: This article is open access, the full version can be viewed at the above link.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Sex Work, Advertorial News Media and Conditional Acceptance.” European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2021. Vol. 24, No. 2. pp. 411- 429. doi:
10.1177/1367549420919846
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Genuinely Keen to Work: Sex Work, Emotional Labour, and the News Media” in Armstrong, L. and Gillian, A. (eds) Sex Work and the New Zealand Model: Decriminalisation and Social Change. 2020. Bristol University Press. pp. 157-176
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Change can never be ‘complete’”: the legal right to self-identification and incongruous bodies.” International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law. 2020. Vol. 1, no. 1. pp. 134-158.
NB: This article is open access, the full version can be viewed at the above link.
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “‘Not on the Street Where We Live’: walking while trans under a model of sex work decriminalisation”. Feminist Media Studies. 2020. Vol. 20, no. 7. pp. 1013 – 1038. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1642226
Easterbrook-Smith, G. “Illicit drive-through sex”, “Migrant Prostitutes”, and “Highly Educated Escorts”: Productions of ‘acceptable’ sex work in New Zealand news media 2010 – 2016.
Doctoral Thesis, 2018.
Victoria University of Wellington.
Book reviews:
“Review: Stephanie Hunter Jones, Sex Work and Female Self-Empowerment.” Sexualities. 2019. doi/10.1177/1363460719876827
“Review: My Body, My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in an Era of Change.” Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019, pp. 109-111. doi: 10.1386/qsmpc_00009_5
Other Publications:
“Stone Femme” in Out Here, edited by Emma Barnes and Chris Tse. Auckland University Press. 2021. pp. 73-74.
Review of Netflix’s BONDiNG. The Spinoff. 4 May 2019.
All the Worst Questions I’m Asked as a Sex Worker. Vice. 1 October 2018.
Conference presentations and invited talks:
IAMCR Conference
The Use of Smell as a Communicative Tool by Trans and Nonbinary People
Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand. July 2024.
Rainbow Studies Now Conference.
Transness and the Olfactory: interactions between scent and identity
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & Online [Hybrid], November 2023.
NZPC, Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective, 2023 Hui. [Invited talk]
Sex Workers’ Online Humour: agency, community and futurity.
Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), New Zealand, June 2023.
Digital Lives Symposium
Online Sex Work and Banking Discrimination, in the “Digital Communities” panel.
Digital Cultures Lab, Massey University, New Zealand [Online], October 2022.
Symposium on Stigma, Discrimination, and Sex Workers’ Rights.
Productions of stigma in New Zealand news media post-decriminalization in the “Rhetoric, discourse and stigma” panel.
Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, February 2018.
Gender, Work and Organisation Bi-Annual Conference.
How the ‘Less is Better’ Rhetoric is Damaging to Sex Worker Rights in the “Sex Work in the 21st Century” stream.
Keele University, England, June 2016.
Exhibitions/Performances:
“The Mongoose and the Snake”
Group Exhibition curated by Elisabeth Pointon, 2024.
Jhana Millers, Wellington.
“I Wouldn’t Pick a Fight with a Swan, Personally” in IM/PERFECT
Exhibition, 2022.
Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
“Human Resources”
Art exhibition and publication with Elisabeth Pointon, 2018.
Meanwhile Gallery, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Human Resources press release can be found here, with the exhibition further discussed as part of a profile of Meanwhile Gallery in Salient.
“Paying For It: An Insider’s Guide to the New Zealand Sex Industry Vol II”
Live performance, 2017.
Bats Theatre, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Nominated for a Wellington Theatre Award.
Other:
Feedback/consultancy for Mrs Warren’s Profession, dir. Eleanor Bishop.
Auckland Theatre Company, 2018.
Auckland, New Zealand.