Bio

Viviana Valle Gomez (she/her) is a Feminist Studies Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara and the Associate Director of Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity at UCSB. Viviana’s research began as a study on student sex workers in 2019 and erupted precisely in 2020 when the pandemic shut down physical movement and drastically shifted the terrain of sex work as all her participants moved online. Since then, she has been interested in the methods of care and sustainability that sex workers flow through to navigate life even as societal structures negate them life.

Projects

Sex Work as Work/Anti-Work

National Women’s Studies Association | An Honour Song: Feminist Struggle, Feminist Victories | Forthcoming

Embodied Knowledge and Aesthetic Practices in the Context of Colonialism and Capitalism

National Women’s Studies Association | An Honour Song: Feminist Struggle, Feminist Victories | Forthcoming

Whores at the End of the World: Rejection of Work and the Possibilities of Care

Royal Hollaway, University of London | Women’s History Network | 2024

A/Sexuality in Flux: Claiming Space With and Without Sexual Attraction

National Women’s Studies Association | killing rage: resistance on the other side of freedom | 2022

Sugar Baby University: Understanding Sex Work Within the University

Columbia University  | GSAS Master’s SynThesis | 2021