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I’ve made a big, weird decision that I’m still getting used to, but the cogs are in motion and it is happening. Effective with the spring issue and the start of $pread’s fourth year in print, I’ve decided that I will no longer be the executive editor of the magazine, nor will I be directly […]

After two weeks of (relative) relaxation - which still doesn’t seem to involve more than 5 hours of sleep a night - I’m gearing up for the west coast leg of my tour. However, I do need to squeeze in one last NYC event before I go - and that’s happening tomorrow at Arena Studios […]

This is me last night towards the end of the opening, trying on Norene Leddy’s Platforms - art-activism-shoes designed as a project to raise awareness for violence against street workers. They’ve got GPS which means they are blinky, along with other impressive technical attributes. (And yes, that is a new and almost-complete half sleeve tattoo […]

Metro ran a really nice piece today about my art show, with a focus on the dildo painting event. You can check it out here. The actual paper also has a cute lil’ pic of me.
Yesterday afternoon I did most of the installation for the show, which in addition to hanging art on the walls […]

*or other populations that are struggling with human rights issues, with whom you do not identify but with whom you sympathize
When I send out calls for submission to $pread and associated events and projects, I always state that I am primarily looking for work from people who are current or former sex workers. Typically, eight […]

This afternoon a group of New York City-based sex workers gathered at Arena Studios, the co-sponsor of Sex Worker Visions II, the second annual show of sex workers’ art that I’m curating. New online sex toy shop Vibrator.com generously provided us with a bag full of dildos for us to defile in the name […]

We thoroughly packed the Bowery Poetry Club on Monday night to release our eighth issue, and many people read, and it was lovely.

It was pretty fabulous to look out at the crowd and not see too many familiar faces (except pretty Molly Crabapple up at the front there) - this means the word is spreading […]

$pread, the magazine produced by and for sex workers and their allies, is pleased to launch our eighth issue at the Bowery Poetry Club!

This multimedia event takes place from 8 to 9:30pm on Monday, February 19th, 2007. Expect performance, literary reading, slideshows and more, as past contributors, artists and featured people take to the stage. Featuring Sarah Katherine Lewis, author of Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It As A Girl for Hire.

6:00pm to 8:30pm
Sweeties, 475 Francisco x Mason
Host: Sex Workers Outreach Project USA & Sweeties
First come, first serve with bar food prepared by the bartender at Sweeties. No host bar.

(I won’t be there, but a bunch of my colleagues will be)

I’ve gotten a lot of comments and emails from people who don’t have money to spare for $pread, but would like to help in some other way.
Though we’re always looking for volunteers (volunteer publicist anyone?), at the moment there’s just no way of getting around the fact that we need cold hard cash to print […]