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I'm Audacia Ray, new media sex maven.
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Personal Projects & Blog :
WakingVixen.com
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email:
dacia[at]wakingvixen.com
Aug
4th
Tue
4th
Being a male stripper is sometimes a bit like being a celebrity with none of the protective mechanisms. Male strippers drive themselves and carry their own bags. They get heckled and adored in equal measure. My phone number is widely available (how else would prospective people book me), but this means I get an array of weirdoes phoning me up at strange hours. Some I have met on my travels, others I have never even heard of. Unlike genuine celebrities, the male stripper is accessible. You can book him, talk to him, touch him and harass him at anytime.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A group of 50 professors signed a letter urging Rhode Island lawmakers not to ban indoor prostitution. Rhode Island is the only state in the country besides several counties in Nevada where indoor prostitution is legal. Prostitutes and their customers who operate outside can still be prosecuted. In a letter issued Saturday, George Washington University professor Ronald Weitzer and Nassau Community College professor Elizabeth Wood said prostitutes who work indoors are less likely to be assaulted, raped or robbed. They said treating indoor and outdoor prostitution differently is a step in the right direction. House and Senate lawmakers have backed sharply different bills that would ban indoor prostitution. They are trying to reach a compromise before a vote expected in September.
Aug
2nd
Sun
2nd
If you are in NYC, you should make your way to the New Museum and see Dorothy Iannone’s solo show, Lioness.
It’s really amazing.
image via www.balkon.hu
Jul
20th
Mon
20th
A one minute video I made about Berlin.
Jul
19th
Sun
19th
This pic: a very Dacia vacation.
Me, Sadie Lune, a sandwich, and her cervix on display.
Taken at the Schwarzer Kanal queer squat in Berlin.
200 plus pics of my adventures in Berlin and Amsterdam are on my Flickr stream (you have to be logged in to flickr to see, since my account is labled unsafe - can’t image why).
Jul
13th
Mon
13th
Body of Work is the working title of a small group exhibit that will take place in Providence, Rhode Island in September of 2008. Focusing exclusively on art made by sex workers, the show will attempt to shatter common myths about what it means to be a sex worker, while also providing much-needed gallery space for talented artists who may lack other means of showcasing their work. With Providence quickly becoming the center of a national prostitution debate, it is vitally important to remind people that sex workers have minds as well as bodies; they should not—can not—be reduced to simple stereotypes. Because of this, work submitted to the show need not necessarily be sex work-related, or even sex-related. Sex workers are a diverse group of people with diverse talents, interests, and skills, and this will be reflected in the final exhibit. Submissions by hookers, strippers, rentboys, sex educators, porn stars, burlesque performers, dominatrices, go-go boys, and more are encouraged, though due to time and space constraints it should be emphasized that Body Of Work will ultimately focus on work by a small number of artists. If the quality of work reaches beyond the scope of the gallery, a larger exhibit may take place in a different venue at a later date.
Jul
12th
Sun
12th
Saw Paul McCarthy’s Air Pressure pieces in Utrecht today: http://airpressure.nl
Sometimes contemporary art is really really dumb.
But also very funny.
It was weird to come across these giant balloons - pigs and poop and bottles of things - throughout the Utrecht botanic garden.
Jul
11th
Sat
11th
I am in Amsterdam.
Predictably, it is awesome.
Jul
8th
Wed
8th
I’ve got a new collaborative project: a monthly reading series called Sex Worker Literati, which debuts at Happy Ending On Thursday, August 6th and will happen ever first Thursday of the month going forward. The first reading stars Candye Kane, Molly Crabapple, Jodi Sh. Doff, Juliana Piccillo, Bo Winberg, and more!
And that fabulous picture? It’s by Sinead McCarthy, aka Baby Sinead, who was one of the Speak Up! participants in April.
The details:
Sex Worker Literati
Hosted by Audacia Ray & David Henry Sterry
at Happy Ending in New York City
First Thursday of the Month
FREE
Behind the bumps and the grinds, under the garters and the pasties, in between the booze fueled clients and the stiletto heels there is in the exchange of sex for money a power dynamic that opens a window into the soul. Sex Worker Literati 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.Happy Ending, 302 Broome St between Forsyth and Eldridge
First Thursday of Every Month
Doors at 7, Reading from 8-10. FREE.
Portion of proceeds from the bar supports sex workers rights groups
