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Dr Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith PhD

Lecturer

Doctoral Co-Supervisor
School of Humanities Media and Creative Comm

Tutor

School of People, Environment and Planning

Professional

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - Victoria University (2018)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Co-Supervisor, Massey University

Research Expertise

Research Interests

sex work, gendered labour, postfeminism, transgender studies 

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Communication and Media Studies (200100): Cultural Studies (200200): Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205): Languages, Communication And Culture (200000): Media Studies (200104)

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
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Research Outputs

Journal

Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2023). Transgender healthcare, telehealth, venture capital and community. Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. 8(2), 159-175 Retrieved from https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/qsmpc_00096_1
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2023). Sex Workers’ Online Humor as Evidence of Resilience. Sexes. 4, 310-326
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2023). OnlyFans as gig-economy work: a nexus of precarity and stigma. Porn Studies. 10(3), 252-267
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2022). Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work. Sexualities. 25(8), 1006-1020
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2021). Shame, subjectivity, and pandemic productivity. Acta Academica. 53(2), 164-174
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2021). Sex work, advertorial news media and conditional acceptance. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 24(2), 411-429
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2021). By Bread Alone: Baking as Leisure, Performance, Sustenance, During the COVID-19 Crisis. Leisure Sciences. 43(1-2), 36-42
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2021). Resisting division: migrant sex work and “New Zealand working girls”. Continuum. 35(4), 546-558
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2020). “Change can never be ‘complete’”: the legal right to self-identification and incongruous bodies. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law. 1(1), 134-158 Retrieved from https://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/IJGSL/article/view/976
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2019). My Body, My Business: new Zealand sex workers in an era of Change. Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. 4(1), 109-111Retreived from https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/qsmpc_00009_5
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2019). Stephanie Hunter Jones, Sex Work and Female Self-Empowerment. SEXUALITIES. 23(7), 1310-1311Retreived from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460719876827
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Easterbrook-Smith, GLE. (2020). “Not on the Street Where We Live”: walking while trans under a model of sex work decriminalisation. Feminist Media Studies. 20(7), 1013-1028
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Book

Easterbrook-Smith, G.(2023). Sex Work and COVID-19 in the New Zealand Media Avoid the Moist Breath Zone. : Policy Press
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2022). Love what you do (and it'll become increasingly difficult to agitate for workplace rights): Sex, work, and rejecting the empowerment discourse. In The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture. (pp. 359 - 368).
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2022). Skin in the Game: Imposter Syndrome and the Insider Sex Work Researcher. In The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. (pp. 173 - 187).
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2022). Baking as Leisure, Performance, Sustenance, During the COVID-19 Crisis. In B. Lashua, CW. Johnson, & DC. Parry (Eds.) Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response. : Routledge
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Easterbrook-Smith, G.(2022). Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker An Analysis of Media Representations. Washington: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Easterbrook-Smith, G. (2020). “Genuinely Keen to Work”: Sex Work, Emotional Labour, and the News Media. In L. Armstrong, & G. Abel (Eds.) Sex Work and the New Zealand Model: Decriminalisation and Social Change. (pp. 157 - 176). Bristol: Bristol University Press
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Teaching and Supervision

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Co-supervisor 1 0

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • Hiraly Asabahebwa - Doctor of Philosophy
    HIV Positive Students' Experiences of Learning with HIV and AIDS in Ugandan Universities - HIV-support Services, Health seeking Behaviour, Challenges Faced and Learning Strategies

Media and Links

Media

  • 23 Oct 2023 - Online
    Migrants still prohibited from sex industry
  • 21 Jan 2024 - Newspaper, Online
    How viable is it to make a living off OnlyFans?
  • 08 Mar 2022 - Radio, Online
    Representing Sex Work in Aotearoa Media
  • 03 Jun 2023 - Newspaper, Online
    OnlyFans model turns viral video into lucrative...