Part One: The Lusty Lady: The Worker-Owned Peep Show
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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4.7 • 902 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Margaret talks with Raechel Anne Jolie about labor organizing among sex workers in the United States
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff. |
| 0:11.7 | Your weekly reminder that when there's bad things happening, there's good things happening too. |
| 0:16.0 | And this is also the only podcast that is willing to talk about crime and or sex. Most podcasts shy away from |
| 0:25.6 | those topics, I believe. I've never heard a podcast before. I am your host Margaret Kiljoy, |
| 0:30.5 | and with me today is my guest, Rachel Angelie. Hi, how are you? Hi, I'm so happy to be here, Margaret. Thank you for the |
| 0:38.9 | invitation. Yeah. Rachel is both my friend and also the author of Rust Belt Femm, which is a |
| 0:44.9 | pretty amazing memoir. And you have a new book coming out. Is that true? I do in like a little less than a |
| 0:50.7 | year. Okay. It's called The New Sex Wars Towards a Feminism with Teeth. It's coming out from PM Press. And I'm literally just like finishing it officially tomorrow. It's exciting. Hell yeah, which is in the past by the time you all are listening. Yeah. So it's done. It'll be done. Yeah. I'm going to call you and bug you about that. |
| 1:16.5 | So, oh, and then the other voice you're hearing is Sophie Ray Lichtenen, who is named after a tree. |
| 1:21.7 | Sophie's our producer. |
| 1:22.3 | Hi, Sophie. |
| 1:22.7 | How are you? |
| 1:25.6 | Or is the tree named after me? |
| 1:28.1 | I think probably the tree is named after you. |
| 1:29.6 | It depends on what tree it is. |
| 1:30.7 | So funny. |
| 1:35.9 | Shout out to the listener who made a plaque, a brass plaque that says this tree is named Sophie Ray Lichtenen. |
| 1:37.4 | I love it so much. |
| 1:39.4 | This week, I thought we would talk about sex workers and sex work organizing. And more specifically, |
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