When Lindsey Normington began stripping 10 years ago to support her acting and filmmaking career, she was obsessed with finding on-screen portrayals of sex work she related to. There weren’t many. Mostly, she had early memories of Law & Order—except the sex workers were almost always “a girl who’s already dead.”
“There’s a saturation of that trope where we never even hear from the girl in the first place,” Normington tells Marie Claire over Zoom. “I was looking for stories, but it was hard.”
