Author of Cutting Apples (Querencia Press) and international s*x worker Jomé Rain stops by the pod to share her perspective on the world's oldest profession, giving herself the grace she's willing to give other people, having cool parents, and the crime of adding grenadine to champagne in Paris.

Jomé has lived in New York City, London, and Paris, and has published poetry via Dream Boy Book Club in addition to her book "Cutting Apples".

We go into the stigmas and double standards surrounding s*x work, the power of neutrality to equalize a false narrative of oppression, and how criminalization can do more harm than good to professionals in this industry.

She also shares her "inextinguishable optimism" and Caitlin would like to bum a dose of that.

Check out her work!

Cutting Apples via Querencia Press: https://www.querenciapress.com/cutting-apples

Her poem "Working Girl" via Dream Boy Book Club:

https://www.dreamboybook.club/jome-rain

Her Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/jomerain/

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https://www.dreamboybook.club/store/meditations-for-party-girls

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