Juniper Fitzgerald

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald's experiences as a queer sex-working mother, readings of Lolita and Frankenstein, and excerpts from childhood journal entries addressed to Gillian Anderson. Merging styles from autotheory to manifesto to teenage confession, Fitzgerald navigates the murky depths of contradictory narratives placed upon sex workers by conservative politicians and feminist thinkers alike, avoiding the false dichotomy between "exploitation" and "empowerment" often imposed on sex workers' lives. Nonlinear memoir excavates the brutalities of a white working-class upbringing in the nineties Midwest; Fitzgerald's first experiences with violence, sex, abuse, and resistance; and her journey to positing "abundance" as a way forward. "Women who long for abundance," she writes, "learn quickly how to navigate contradiction."

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins

Combining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald’s experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the major events that shaped her life, and interspersing her childhood letters written to cult icon Gillian Anderson, this experimental manifesto contends with dominant narratives placed upon marginalized people, ultimately rejecting a capitalist system that demands our purity and submission over our survival.

Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children—piloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip club—this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good parenting. We’re reminded that, while every mama’s work looks different, every mama works to make their baby’s world better.

How Mamas Love Their Babies

Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children - piloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip club - this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent in a positive light by introducing the idea of bodily labour. We're reminded that, while every mama's work looks different, every mama works to make their baby's world better.

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