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September 3, 2009 – Sex Worker Literati, $pread Edition | Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys
Hosted by Audacia Ray
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, September 3. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
21 and up – FREE
Portion of proceeds from the bar supports $pread Magazine
Sex Worker Literati is a new free monthly performance series that features sex workers, former sex workers, and people with stories about the sex industry who will read, monologue, perform, and shimmy their ways into your hearts, minds, and naughty bits. In September we celebrate $pread, a quarterly magazine by an for sex workers – all of the performers have contributed to or been featured in the magazine. To get a taste of what the Sex Worker Literati is like, check out: videos of past performances (and subscribe to the video podcast on iTunes or Miro), pictures taken at the event, and be our fan on Facebook.
The September 3rd performance stars: Zak Smith, Ignacio Rivera, Melissa Gira, Essence Revealed, Christina Cicchelli, and Gerry Visco.
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[Katrien] Jacobs works as an assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong. She is a scholar, writer and activist in the field of digital art and culture who has published widely on netporn, sex art, and censorship. She has a Ph.D. degree in comparative literature and media, with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals in 1960s/1970s body art and performance media. She recently finished her book ‘Libidoc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art.’ (Maska Publications), a grand-scale emotive and illuminated travelogue into the work of 27 artists, with tales and commentaries by the double-narrator ‘Libidot’ and ‘dr jacobs’.
Why have I never seen or read this woman before? What else am I missing? World, you contain too much.
The Art and Politics of Netporn » katrien jacobs
gotta love when posts from other people job my memory and send me on a reading binge. I’m so easily distracted by good sex geekery.
Right. I’ll just paste in the comment I left for Danny:
Oh! I know Katrien! She’s fabulous. I met her a few years ago when she curated an event called C’lick Me in Amsterdam (June 2007) - there’s an anthology of writings that she co-edited after the conference. It’s called C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader. Available as a free PDF here: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/the-art-and-politics-of-netporn/(extra Audacia trivia: I took this pic for my C’lick Me talk, and it’s my all time most viewed pic on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingvixen/529212435/)](http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koloxw3Q1a1qz5stvo1_400.gif)
