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After a few wild years partying, Mazzei decides to work as a camgirl. It’s an exciting and lucrative career but also dangerous — women are frequently harassed and even killed on the job. This danger forces sex workers to develop an ethos of resiliency that often sees harassment as their own fault, rather than the fault of larger structural systems like capitalism and gendered power dynamics.
This logic is a problem because it unburdens these women from addressing the systemic issues that put them at risk, while also suggesting that solving the issue of violence for webcam models is merely an individual matter. Camgirl is a smart, wickedly funny memoir that shows how one girl learned to fight back and reclaim her own sexual power.
