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Biography
Heather Berg is a feminist studies scholar writing about labor, sexuality, and social struggle. Her first book, Porn Work, explores workers’ strategies for navigating—and subverting—precarity in the U.S. adult film industry. It won the Working Class Studies Association’s C.L.R. James best book award.
Her current book project, Lumpen Theory: Notes from the Sex Worker Left, thinks about sex workers at the vanguard of radical political thought. Professor Berg teaches classes such as “Working Badly,” “Sex Work,” and “The Unworking Class,” where students can learn about unruly workers and unexpected solidarities.
She comes to UCLA with a PhD in Feminist Studies from UC Santa Barbara and over 15 years experience in anti-work organizing.
