Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: CAROLINA CARVALHO DIAS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CAROLINA CARVALHO DIAS
DATE: 28/08/2026
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

"The problem is not sex, the problem is working under capitalism": Experiences of work, care, and resistance in platformized sex work

KEY WORDS:

sex work; camming; whore feminism; mental health

PAGES: 132
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

This research analyzes the effects of digital sex work on the modes of subjectivation and mental
health of camming workers in the Brazilian context. Qualitative and interventional in nature, it
articulated intervention research with an online group of sixteen sex workers, developed over four
weekly meetings as a collective device for listening, care, and knowledge production. Grounded in
putafeminismo (whore feminism) and post-structuralist feminist perspectives, the research takes sex
workers as subjects of knowledge and seeks to displace individualizing readings of suffering and
mental health. The analysis, still in progress, highlights the centrality of relationships built among
workers in the face of the isolation of the work, as well as processes of recognition and
subjectivation, disputes around race, gender, and desirability, and the effects of platform
architectures on the organization and experience of work. Preliminary results point to the
coexistence of precarity, stigma, and inequality alongside the production of care networks, shared
knowledge, strategies of resistance, and collective forms of recognition as sex workers.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ADRIELY CLARINDO CATTANI - UNICAMP
Externa à Instituição - MARISA DANTAS DO REGO BARROS - USP
Interna - 2086520 - CANDIDA MARIA BEZERRA DANTAS