Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use by Justice Rivera links erotic labor, psychoactive substances, and harm reduction

Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use is a collection of 17 essays by Justice Rivera and other advocates, sex workers, and scholars connecting body autonomy to decolonial critiques of U.S. neocolonial and carceral policy. The book argues that ideological wars on body autonomy mirror tactics of the War on Drugs by criminalizing and disenfranchising sex work, while producing health inequities and ongoing interpersonal and systemic violence. By foregrounding erotic labor as sacred and liberating and linking it to the use of psychoactive substances, the essays emphasize healing-centered, harm reduction approaches that prioritize compassion over criminalization. The goal is to reframe survival and embodied liberation through decolonial substance perspectives and politically informed reform.