“To be a holy mutant of your desire is to become respond-able to the curses and blessings laid before you. It’s the ability to make compassion for yourself and others so appealing it changes the function of time. It calls back the fruit, flowers, and sprouts to remember themselves anew. How have sex workers and gender-expansive people across time and space known this story of adaptability through liminality? through the narrows of empire?”

— The Underworld is an Improvisation, Evie Vigil

“I was sitting in the Seattle airport waiting to board a plane. Reading the words over and over again, startled by the emotions swelling up in me, a complicated menagerie of grief, overwhelm and wonder as I reflected on crossing certain thresholds in my life as a sex worker I never thought possible.”

— On Sex Work & Death, Personal Studies & Emergent Dimensions, Evie Vigil