Sex work history with sharp community memory.
Heaux in the Kneaux treats sex work as history, labor, survival, art, and working life. Episodes move between Historical Hoes segments, legislative updates, and candid conversations with guests about stripping, burlesque, online work, healing, safety, and identity.
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Heaux in the Kneaux is a worker-led sex work history and culture show with a deliberately messy, funny, and politically direct style. It does not treat sex work as a scandal to be decoded from the outside. It treats it as labor, art, risk, community, and history. Episodes show a consistent structure: a conversational opening, a Historical Hoes segment, then a guest interview or issue-focused discussion that keeps the archive close to the present tense. The historical range is wide. Nell Gwynn, Zofia Patoka, the Hellfire Club, and Asa Akira appear as entry points into theater, brothels, pornography, class mobility, celebrity, and the ways erotic labor gets remembered or erased. The current-day conversations are just as central. A legislation mini-sode connects sexual harassment claims, forced arbitration, loitering laws, SB 357, poverty punishment, housing, health care, child care, and protections for queer, trans, Black, homeless, and street-based sex workers. Guest episodes broaden the field. Kel talks about stripping and transitioning. Dominique F. Trick discusses burlesque, stripping, art, customer dynamics, and whether burlesque belongs under the sex work umbrella. Amira, known for Hoes Are Healers, brings in shadow work, healing, sexuality, and the split many workers feel between work selves and outside selves. Nick Lovett, also known online as Black Girls Are God, speaks about autism, masking, safety, isolation, aftercare, and finding other sex workers. Arrows appears in a conversation touching online work and pop-culture criticism. Sarah Barberic and Alistair Fern appear as founders behind Scum Trust in a discussion of fantasy porn making. The show’s rhythm is fast, intimate, and digressive, with jokes sitting beside practical advice about tracking devices, home cameras, community networks, and worker safety. Its politics are not decorative. They shape how the show talks about policing, surveillance, racism, trans life, disability, criminalization, and the everyday cost of being made unsafe. Heaux in the Kneaux is best for listeners who want sex work described by people close to the work itself: funny, unsanitized, historically curious, and grounded in mutual care.
Made for: For sex workers, allies, historians of sexuality, and listeners interested in labor, criminalization, race, gender, performance, and survival from a worker-led perspective.
What sets it apart: The show combines Historical Hoes segments with present-day conversations about legislation, safety, identity, healing, and erotic labor. Its perspective is conversational and insider-grounded rather than academic, voyeuristic, or respectability-driven.
A podcast about sex work, by sex workers, for sex workers and our allies. We tell the stories of heauxs forgotten by history, and interview current sex workers to create an archive of knowledge about us, our histories, and our working conditions. Heaux in the Kneaux is hosted by two black trans sex workers, Selena and Cori, with additional segments contributed by Teddy the Historian and Clover the Savant. The Historical Heaux entries are written and edited by Selena and Ari. You can follow us on IG @heauxinthekneaux!
Nell Gwynn gets the opening act; you stay for a burlesque artist's refusal to rank sex work.
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A loose, plainspoken briefing on forced arbitration, California loitering laws, and the support sex workers still need.
Legislation Mini-sode points the show's Ho in the Know format toward laws shaping sexual-assault and harassment claims, along with street-based sex work. The hosts frame H.R.
A candid swing from Inanna to Apple tag safety links mythology with modern vulnerability.
Kel's guest turn gives the episode a loose, candid shape, moving from a theatrical, sexually charged opening into a Historical Hoes segment on Inanna, the Sumerian fertility goddess, before drifting toward Apple tags, tracking, and the protective value of Ring cameras.
A candid discussion of burlesque, sex work, and self-definition, with Nell Gwynn as its historical entry point.
Burlesque sits at the center of this episode's question: where does stripping belong inside sex work when performance, fantasy, online monetization, and commissioned personal acts start to overlap? Dominique F.
A candid conversation about sex work, shadow work, and making room for the full self.
Amira of Hoes Are Healers joins the host for a candid, reflective conversation about sex work, spirituality, and the parts of the self people learn to tuck away.
Nick Lovett connects autistic masking, sex work, and the practical work of staying safer.
Nick Lovett, known online as Black Girls Are God, gives a clear account of the strain that can come with masking around sex-work clients while keeping parts of an autistic self out of view.
Fast chat, blunt laughs, real-life oversharing.
Real stories for bold, curious kids.
Land, collapse, and radical ecology.
Afro-Hebraic scripture with historical fire.
Childhood history, argued through evidence.
Buried history with teeth.
Heaux in the Kneaux uses this mini-sode to break down H.R.
Heaux in the Kneaux centers Kel's work in trans-friendly strip clubs Alejandro and Jolene, with Selena and Kory introducing her as a guest who knows both dancing and queer nightlife.
Heaux in the Kneaux speaks with Dominique F.
Heaux in the Kneaux's "Hoes Are Healers" ties Amira's Hoes Are Healers page to a long discussion of sex-worker healing, Reiki, and shadow work.
Nick Lovett, also known online as Black Girls Are God, discusses leaving full-service sex work after starting around age 18 or 19 and trying to use it to move away from a violent home.
Hosts Selena and Cori, along with guest Arrows, discuss Gwen Stefani's cultural appropriation and the evolution of her public image.
The hosts discuss personal challenges like buying a car for a family member, blending everyday life with the show's focus on sex work.
A podcast by and for sex workers discussing history, current issues, and interviewing guests, with a segment on porn star Asa Akira.
This episode profiles Amrapali, an ancient Indian royal courtesan who became a Buddhist Arahant, as part of a series on historical sex workers.