This article examines the vernacular phrase hooker magic to explorethe intricacies and depths of a particular subjectivity that emerges through (and from) sex work. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork with sex workers in London, this article explores the technologies of sex work, demonstrating the complex system of material, sexual and intersubjective practices that are inherent to the work. Hooker magic is simultaneously a material practice and an interpretation of the cosmic-moral orders in which sex as work is undertaken. This bricolage phrase,and its variants, is used to make sense of the socio-political nuances sex workers exist in. Hooker magic encompasses the hope and conviction that despite the seeming elusiveness of socio-material wealth and protection, there is abundance to be tapped into, if only one is privy to the knowledge that permits one access.
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