Sofia Blair

The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic, and the Divine (2024) "is a multi-media collection of art and writing by sex workers that explores themes of divinity, magical practice and the sacred. This work is the debut publication of Working Girls Press, and features pieces from 45 different workers in a variety of formats—poetry, prose, nonfiction essays, flash fiction, photography, digital collage, and more" (WGP).

Empress Mirage highlights Sofia Blair's essay "Thin Walls" (published under the pseudonym Madeleine Blair) as a "[p]articular standout from the anthology," describing it as "an account of a group of sex workers who get scammed by an Instagram witch into a less-than-promised retreat on a Puerto Rican island" (Tryst Blog).

The piece also explores themes of friendship, voice, and consent.

MsLexia is the UK's bestselling quarterly magazine for women who write.

Sofia Blair wrote the Career column for Mslexia's Issue 111, detailing how she spends a typical week as a devoted writer who makes her money elsewhere.

The Tryst Blog is a top resource for workers, allies, and clients of the adult industry for news and opinion, advice, interviews, and articles about everything from advocacy, history, and social justice to cybersecurity, client etiquette, BDSM,

Sofia Blair's Practical Advice for Dating As a Sex Worker explores three key issues that can arise in any romantic relationship, but are often more acute for sex workers: feelings of exclusion, concerns about safety, and social stigma. 

Works in Progress

From cosmopolitan parlor rooms and Wild West bawdy houses to COVID-cheap Ritz suites and AirBNB in-calls, the Madeleines series tells true stories of Mary and Zoë as they—between the years of 1889-1906 and 2014-2031, respectively—navigate writing and sex work in North America. Historically accurate, politically sharp, often funny and occasionally steamy, Madeleines exemplifes just how little conditions have improved for those in “the oldest profession.” In the world, both are burdened by stigma and injustice: Mary’s red light district closures and “white slave” hysteria are Zoë’s shadowbanning and SESTA/FOSTA. In private, each struggles to secure genuine autonomy while creating and sustaining meaningful, fulfilling relationships. The parallel narratives resemble an egg: the yolk an adaptation of Mary’s 1919 memoir, Madeleine: An Autobiography; the white Zoë story, beginning in 2014. Set in 2031 from within a co-op brothel in a decriminalized United States, the shell narrative imagines a more just future for Zoë and her fellow sex workers. 

Back to the Garden: An Unruly Lecture is a memoir-biography-epistle appearing on the page as a lecture transcript. The topic: Joni Mitchell and Morgellons disease; the audience: a (literally) captive audience of the narrator’s dozen-or-so ex-boyfriends. Through improvisational deviations from prepared biography and biology slides, the narrator weaves stories of the loves and losses of two women longing to be understood, connecting Mitchell's lyrics and experiences to her own, scolding then gradually dismissing her "pupils," and—by the end—bargaining and pleading with a single remaining man. The text offers meditations on the pitfalls of limerence and necessity of creative alchemy, interrogations of the concepts of delusion and infestation, and miniature polemics regarding the mistreatment and maligning of women in medicine, media, and romance. 

 Special Characters is a collection of erotic and heartbreak poetry. Read a poem from this collection here.

Consumables is a collection of assorted poems, ranging in style and tone and exploring topics of women, children, nature, food, and self. 

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