ABSTRACT
As the author reflect on his experience conducting this research and what has followed in the years since, he is both exhausted at all there still is to do and also inspired that he is not alone in the work. To be clear, what the author experienced pales in comparison to that of his collaborators and sex workers in society broadly, and he do not suggest he was/am stigmatized; but like other scholars, he had found there is resistance to this work, and it is unsettling. College student sex workers—like the collaborators in this study—want to tell their stories, they want to be heard, and they want ethical researchers to take up projects like these to further the work and advocacy for sex workers' rights. Before beginning this inquiry, the author was unsure if any collaborators would join him on this project.
