EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Ruby Summers - Editor
ruby@tosjournal.com
Ruby Summers is an editor, writer, events manager and sex worker based in Naarm. She was identified by the judging panel at the Queensland Literary Awards as a "major contributor to Queensland literature". During her career in the arts she has lectured at both RMIT & QUT and has run numerous feature writing workshops at arts festivals across Queensland.
In 2018 she was nominated for an Australian Adult Industry Award in the Journalism and Media Category for her investigative journalism. Ruby has also worked in the sex industry since 2015. As an advocate for sex worker rights she has written for SBS sexuality, Archer Magazine and GOAT magazine Through investigative journalism, her work for these publications has explored industry issues such as unionization, FOSTA-SESTA and other workers' rights issues.
Valerie Miller - Creative Director
creative.director@tosjournal.com
Valerie Miller is a North Queensland-raised, Melbourne-based artist, graphic designer and stripper. She started dancing in Brisbane in 2016 after being inspired by workers around her and after reading Jenna Jameson’s book How To Make Love Like A Porn Star.
Since then she has stripped in Brooklyn NYC, Melbourne, Canberra and a club in rural Victoria. Valerie mainly focuses on hand embroidery and paper collage, but she also occasionally delves into animation, illustration, painting and digital work. Her art, under the name Harley & Händen, has been exhibited in BSAF, at BSIDE Gallery, The Bromley Room, No Vacancy and fortyfivedownstairs.
Lucie Bee
Lucie Bee is an escort, porn performer and sex worker rights advocate. They were featured on season one of ABC's You Can't Ask That and has been a guest on Hack Live: Australian's on Porn, 'The Hook Up', The Project and more. Lucie enjoys taking stereotypes about the sex and porn industries and turning them upside down on a regular basis.
Sasha Smith
Sasha Smith is a Boandik (South East South Australia) woman currently living and working on Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide). She has been working in the sex industry for 5 years working primarily in brothels around the country and internationally. She also currently co-host The ASH (Aboriginal Sexual Health) podcast where she shares stories of her sex work experience while also highlighting some of the issues sex workers face. She is a strong advocate for decriminalisation of the sex industry and is regularly involved with SIDAC, the sex industry decrim action committee based in Adelaide.
Through this work she has also been given the opportunity to write and consult on an upcoming Noble Savage Production; a fictional TV show still in early development called Rough which follows a young Aboriginal woman and her journey into entering the sex industry.
Violet Sweet
Violet Sweet’s involvement in the sex industry has been long and varied — over the past 8 years she’s worked in massage parlours and brothels, strip clubs and peepshows, for escort agencies and independently.
She’s been “out” the whole time and as a result have had the luxury of having open discourse about sex work for the better part of a decade. Her passion project is her blog where she writes about work life, “real” life, mental health, relationships and how they all intersect.
Farrah Richards
Farrah Richards is a stripper, emerging writer and poet. She has worked as a stripper, hooker and escort. Her introduction to sex work was as a topless waitress in far north Queensland. Her written work explores drug use, privilege and socio-economic disadvantage within the sex industry.
Sabrina Star
Sabrina Star is a queer sex worker and academic assistant living and working on Gadigal Land. She has worked in many facets of the sex industry including: stripping, full service, massage, porn, camming, and peepshow. She’s interested in policy and social research and aims to use her background in sociology and social theory to uplift voices of the sex industry. Sabrina advocates strongly for the decriminalisation of sex work and the dismantling of stigma associated with the industry in order for sex workers to attain the working and living rights we deserve.
Raya X
Raya X is a Naarm-based non-binary writer, artist and FSSW turned online whore who submits only to the stereotype of wanting to being a chihuahua parent. They’d tell you more but it’s a risk to their safety.
London
London is a queer nonbinary sex worker based in Meanjin(Brisbane). During their six years in the industry they have enjoyed their time in full service, camming, porn, waitressing/shows and stripping. They are passionate about creating a safe space and supporting lgbtiqa+ people within sex work.