For Queenie Bon Bon, sex is haunted. As a girlfriend, boss, and showgirl – an individual workforce – each online personal ad manifests as a ghost of themselves, refracted by desire. Like a brothel carpet, the internet never forgets.

The Body is its own Language is part escort directory, part diary and part memoir. It dissolves the borders and backpages of sex work, examining the intimacies and networks of bodies online and IRL. Writing at the outset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, as human contact is traced and touch is politicised, Queenie Bon Bon examines what happens at the sticky “intersection of care and activism”. What is dirty work, what is care work, what is sex work?