Publications & Media
I and several of the Trigger Warning Anthology's authors are available for paid speaking engagements covering broad and intersection issues surrounding anti-criminalization, harm reduction, BIPOC perspectives, sex worker safety, and healing justice. I am also available for select journalist interviews. For media requests, please complete my contact form.
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My publications
(06/2025) When Sex Work Can Decolonize
(09/2024) Safer Sex Work
(05/2024) Collected and co-authored the BIPOC-created anthology, Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use (Synergetic Press, 2024)
(01/2024) Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Policies, and the Continuum of Consent Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Policies, and the Continuum of Consent
(01/2021) Centering Sex Workers in Harm Reduction Programming” fact sheet
(10/2020) “Sex Worker-Centered Harm Reduction” webinar through NASTAD
(05/2020) Weed Washing
(01/2020) Exploitation is to Sex Work as Overdose is to Drug Use
(06/2020) Beyond Decriminalization
(04/2018) Colonization Laid the Groundwork for the Drug War: The War on Drugs is a War on Healing
(06/2015) Casualties of War: The Wars on Drugs and Sex Trafficking
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Select Interviews and Media Coverage
Synergetic Press (4/2026)
IG Live on Global Day to Fight Exploitation / Borders of Consent: Reclaiming Body Autonomy
Sex, Love, Psychedelics Podcast (5/2024)
Sex Work, Body Autonomy & The Impact of Censorship
Drug Policy Alliance (6/2023)
DPA Voices Book talk | Towards Bodily Autonomy: A Healing Justice Anthology Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use
Sex Workers USA Podcast (5/2023)
Amira, Mona, and Justice discuss Towards Bodily Autonomy: A Healing Justice Anthology Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use
TheBody (1/2023) Justice Rivera's Towards Bodily Autonomy Eclipses Cruelty in the Name of Healing Justice
Washington Post (3/2021)
Atlanta Spa Killings Lead to Questions about Sex Work and Exploitation
Dr. Junkie Podcast (9/2020)
Episode 20 – Sex Work with Justice Rivera
SuperMaker (03/2020)
Sex Work is the World’s Oldest Profession. Are Americans Finally Ready to Decriminalize?
Complex (July 2018)
Is the War on Sex Work the New War on Drugs?
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (09/2017)
The Intersections of Sex Work and HIV Crim
Lutnik, Alexandra | Columbia University Press. (01/2016)
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains
