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Rita Therese

book covers for Come by Rita Therese and Happy Endings by Bella Green

New Sex-Work Literature

Millie Baylis, Meanjin, Autumn 2022

These new books by sex workers deserve to be regarded as literary works. I was disappointed but not surprised when I noticed that Therese seemed to be reviewed more for her moral choices in Come than for her prose … Therese has an ability to write throat-aching moments of grief, followed by belly laughs in singular sentences, but this was never mentioned in any other reviews. And I am yet to see Happy Endings reviewed at all.

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