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Sex Worker Visions and other awesomeness
March 18, 2006
Lest you think I’ve been farting around this week and neglecting my blog (well, I have been neglecting my blog, but I haven’t been farting around), let me share a slice of what I’ve been up to.
This week I’ve reviewed three websites over at SugarClick:
Dirty Dees: Dirty in that good way, not done dirt cheap
Blue Blood: Hands-down, the premier site for Gothic pin-ups
College Invasion: A hardcore step above and beyond Girls Gone Wild
But, the super amazing exciting thing that I’m working on is Sex Worker Visions. Bask in the awesomeness of the press release:
$pread, a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers and their allies, presents Sex Worker Visions, an exhibition featuring art by sex workers and about the sex industry, at the LGBT Community Center David Bohnett Cyber Center at 208 West 13th Street, New York City, from March 29 – May 20. Visions kicks off with an opening reception on March 29 from 6 to 9 pm.
Visions is curated by Audacia Ray, Executive Editor of $pread and former Assistant Curator at the Museum of Sex. Artists include sex activist and educator Heather Corinna, former SuicideGirl and illustrator Molly Crabapple, exotic dancer and photographer Charise Isis, and former prostitute and filmmaker Anne Hanavan, as well as Paul Sarkis and George Pitts’ intimate portraits of porn stars. Photographs by Erin Siegal and illustrations by Fly and Cristy Road originally appearing in $pread will also be on display. Sales will benefit the non-profit magazine.
The March 29 event is also the opening night of the Sex Work Matters conference, a joint venture of CUNY and the New School. For $pread, the evening will also mark the start of its second year of publication. In its first year, $pread, won Best New Title from the Utne Indepenent Press Awards. The Spring issue of $pread will be available for sale at the reception.
For opening night only, the exhibit will be completely interactive with a webcam video project, “30 Second Sex,” masterminded by multimedia artist and erotic professional Melissa Gira and featuring webcam pioneers Ana Voog and Echo Transgression camming from remote locations. Computer monitors around the Cyber Center will display the websites of sex worker rights advocacy groups for the public to peruse. Former call girl Tracy Quan along with sex worker activist Carol Leigh (aka Scarlot Harlot) will be signing copies of their respective books, Diary of a Married Call Girl and Unrepentant Whore.
I’ll be putting up sneak peek images from the show here.
Posted by Dacia at March 18, 2006 08:12 AM
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It’s weird—I never thought about reviews of porn sites until recently. There are so very many crap sites out there, as I’m sure you know far better than I do. Thanks for letting us know what’s good and trashy and what’s plain old trashy.
Posted by: litlfrog at March 20, 2006 11:43 AM
Carol Leigh will be there?!?? I LOVE her! :) I met her years ago, before I was working, when she passed through in the sex workers’ arts show with Annie Oakley and Carol Queen. It was awesome!
Posted by: Melinda at March 20, 2006 02:37 PM
Omg, I just got an email saying that Carol has been banned because of her Whore College??!? REALLY? A conference on sex work and the woman who invented the term “sex work” has been BANNED?!
How bizarre!
Posted by: Melinda at March 20, 2006 02:56 PM
CUNY, one of the funding universities of the conference, didn’t like what Carol had to say to the NY Post back in December, so they told the conference organizers that they’d yank funding if she was involved.
Melissa Gira and I are including her in our roundtable discussion (Managing Roles: Sex Workers, Activists, Academics) at the conference, and we’re going to be discussing the issue directly. Its at 10.45 am on Thursday, March 30th - and its going to be webcast, so if you get up early you can see what happens.
Posted by: Dacia at March 20, 2006 03:42 PM
Thanks!
Posted by: Melinda at March 20, 2006 06:58 PM
The economic value of user contributions to Internet sites..
Posted by: Liam Binder at December 31, 2006 03:06 PM
