The Tricking Hour

<p>What is a world in which work disappears?</p><p><br></p><p>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 <em>The Tricking Hour</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Part anti-work polemic part sex worker's confession the luminous essays in <em>The Tricking Hour</em> 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.</p>