Student Essay—Sex Work as Empowerment? Straight-Up Gaslighting| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. When I signed up for Professor Michael Whitehawk’s sociology class at Texas State University (TXST), I hoped it would challenge me to look at society in […]| Minding The Campus
At the 97th Academy Awards, Mikey Madison won Best Actress for her performance in Anora and said in her speech, “I want to recognize and support the sex worker community as an ally.” But normalizing sex work reduces women’s value to physical appeal, undermining true empowerment rooted in respect, intellect, and character. The debate over […]| Minding The Campus