Laura LeMoon’s
Published Articles
How a Sex Trafficking Law Made my Job as a Sex Worker More Dangerous. Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6th, 2024. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-a-sex-trafficking-law-made-my-job-as-a-sex-worker-more-dangerous-958c94c3?st=dqX7KZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and Why We Need to Retire the Term ‘gold digger.” Salon. May 23rd, 2023. https://www.salon.com/2023/05/23/anna-nicole-smith-gold-digger-stigma-sugaring/
I’m a Former Sex Worker who Watched Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘No Hard Feelings.’ The Movie was Wrong about Sex Work. Insider. June 30th, 2023. https://www.insider.com/author/laura-le-moon
Rewatching David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ as a Survivor of Sexual Trauma and Member of the Kink Community Gavde me a New Appreciation for its Deopiction of BDSM. Insider. Nov. 21st, 2021.
https://www.insider.com/author/laura-le-moon
HIV and Racism as a Barrier to Testing and Treatment. The Body. Sept. 12th, 2018. https://www.thebody.com/article/hiv-and-racism-as-a-barrier-to-testing-and-treatme
What Sex Workers Have to Say About HIV after FOSTA/SESTA. The Body. July 3rd, 2018. https://www.thebody.com/article/what-sex-workers-have-to-say-about-hiv-after-fosta
Sex Work is Work: The Strippers’ Bill of Rights is a Labor Victory for the Exotic Dancers of Washington State. South Seattle Emerald. April 23rd, 2024. https://southseattleemerald.com/tag/laura-lemoon/
How the Overturn of Roe V. Wade Will Uniquely Impact Sex Workers. South Seattle Emerald. June 27th, 2022. https://southseattleemerald.com/tag/laura-lemoon/
The Ultimate Survival Guide for the Impending Overturn of Roe. V. Wade. South Seattle Emerald. June 10th, 2022. https://southseattleemerald.com/tag/laura-lemoon/
Prostitution and the City Part 2: The ‘Good’ Survivors and the Troublemakers. South Seattle Emerald. Dec. 9th, 2021. https://southseattleemerald.com/tag/laura-lemoon/
Prostitution and the City: Seattle’s End Demand Problem. South Seattle Emerald. Nov. 18th, 2021. https://southseattleemerald.com/tag/laura-lemoon/
The Upcoming Seattle Erotic Art Festival is the Feel-Good Event We All Need. South Seattle Emerald. Oct. 26th, 2021. https://southseattleemerald.com/tag/laura-lemoon/
Everything You Need to Know about Amy Coney Barrett’s Stance on Abortion. Pulp Mag. 2020. https://www.thepulpmag.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-amy-coney-barretts-stance-on-abortion
What the Early AIDS Epidemic can Teach us about COVID-19. HIV Plus Magazine. March 12th, 2020. https://www.hivplusmag.com/authors/laura-lemoon
Trump Just Signed Legislation that Could be Deadly for Sex Workers like Me. Huffington Post. April 15th, 2018. https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-lemoon
What Being a Fat Sex Worker Taught Me about Men and Desire. Huffington Post. Sept. 8th, 2020. https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-lemoon
I’m a Former Sex Worker. This is what it’s Like to Date. Huffington Post. Dec. 19th, 2019. https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-lemoon
I was Raped as a Sex Worker and this is what I want you to Know. Huffington Post. December 17th, 2020. https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-lemoon
I’m a Sex Worker and I can’t Get a Mainstream Job Because of my Past. Huffington Post. May 20th, 2021. https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-lemoon
I’m a Queer Woman. Here’s What Happened when I tried to Hire an Escort. Huffington Post. May 2nd, 2022. https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-lemoon
What Tracing the Steps of the Green River Killer Taught me about Violence in Sex Work. Huffington Post. Dec. 20th, 2021. https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-lemoon
Confessions of Grief: Katie Marya’s Sugar Work. The Rumpus. June 21st, 2023. https://therumpus.net/author/lauralemoon/
I’m a Sex Trafficking Survivor. I Have Concerns about ‘Sound of Freedom.’ The Progressive. August 10th, 2023. https://progressive.org/topics/laura-lemoon/
Chrystul Kizer Should Remind us all of the Importance of Preventing Human Trafficking. The Progressive. Oct. 14th, 2024. https://progressive.org/topics/laura-lemoon/
Elephant Man at SIFF is Hard to Watch. Here’s why It’s Necessary. The Seattle Times. June 24th, 2023. https://www.seattletimes.com/author/laura-lemoon/
Seattle’s Sweeps Policies Ignore Sex Workers. The Stranger. June 1st, 2017.
https://www.thestranger.com/authors/25183572/laura-lemoon
SESTA Won’t Stop Sex Trafficking, but it will Kill Sex Workers. VICE News. April 26th, 2018. https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/laura-lemoon/
As a Trafficking Survivor, Lobbying for Sex Workers Rights Gave me Hope. VICE News. June 8th, 2018. https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/laura-lemoon/
Review of My Art is Killing Me by Amber Dawn and an Interview with the Author. Glass: A Journal of Poetry. April 14th, 2021. https://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/lemoon-dawn.html
I’m a Sex Worker. Shame on Bill Maher for Mocking us. The Daily Beast. August 31st, 2021. https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/laura-lemoon/
‘The Stroll’ Reclaims Sex Work for NYC’s Trans Sex Workers. The Daily Beast. June 21st, 2023. https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/laura-lemoon/
Her Death Should Wake us up to Violence Against Sex Workers. The Daily Beast. March 14th, 2024. https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/laura-lemoon/
Stormy Daniels Felt She Couldn’t Say No to Sex with Trump. The Daily Beast. March 23rd, 2024. https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/laura-lemoon/
No One Thing. Bellevue Literary Review. Issue 47, Fall 2024. https://blreview.org/nonfiction/no-one-thing/
Essays and criticisms have also appeared in these now defunct publications which can no longer be found online: Bitch Magazine and Wear Your Voice Magazine.