Love and Riches – February 2

by admin on January 10, 2012

Hosted by Audacia Ray
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Doors at 7 pm, event from 8-10
21 and up – FREE

Sinnamon Love is an adult film star, fetish model, professional dominatrix, writer & single mom of 3 teenagers living in Brooklyn, NY. Since 1993, Love has appeared in over 250 hardcore movies, numerous men’s magazines and countless appearances on Playboy TV & Radio. In 2010, Sinnamon took on a year long tour with The Punany Poets of HBO’s “Real Sex” fame, a sex positive erotic poetry & sex education theater show. She is a frequent guest on Shade 45 on Sirius/ XM radio, and is currently a staff writer & relationship columnist for TheWellVersed.com. In 2010 she was inducted into the Urban X Awards’ Hall of Fame followed by induction into the AVN Awards’ Hall of Fame in 2011. Love is an outspoken Autism/ Asperger’s parent advocate and has recently taken on improving sex education in Inner City schools.

Since 2006 Tina Horn has worked in the Bay Area as a professional BDSM switch and porn performer. She is the co-creator of QueerPorn.Tv, a sex positive documentary masquerading as a hardcore-porn site; within a year of its launch it’s already a Feminist Porn Award winner and AVN nominee. Tina has led kink workshops in settings as varied as Good Vibrations, Evergreen University, Femina Potens, and the SF Citadel. Her writing has been published in AORTA, Whore!, and several Cleis Press anthologies. She is currently working on a Writing Masters in New York and thus cannot even begin to tell you how badly she could use a spanking right now.

 

anna Saini has lived many lives as a political scientist, radical activist and multi-media artist. She completed a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto and McMaster University respectively. She works as a community organizer on issues of equality in higher education, drug policy reform, prison abolition, womens abuse issues, police brutality, and labor rights. Her writing appears in Bitch Magazine, make/shift Magazine, various journals and in her self-published anthology Colored Girls.

ben rosenberg is a multimedia/performance artist and designer who has spent the majority of his time getting schooled in herstory and urban development since emigrating as a refugee from los angeles early last year. when not cooking or making awkward quips about fighting the powers that be, he is usually working with [queer electro punk collective] lotus eater machine, as well as organizing PHAN[T.A.Z.]MAGORIA, a new immersive audio visual experience based on hakim bey’s model of the temporary autonomous zone.

The self proclaimed e-slut extraordinaire known as The Incredible, Edible, Akynos is a burlesque performer of almost 5 years. the newest member of the popular burlesque troupe Brown Girls Burlesque, she’s performed on stages from Symphony Space to the late great Zipper Factory. She’s a burlesque show producer and former stripper who aspires to strip again only if the money is right. She’s been a proud working girl and will write about her escapades in her graduating piece A Sexual Social History Involving Theory when she graduates from Goddard College this March. She’s scheduled to go on an east coast tour this spring and produce wonderful burlesque ensembles such as Darkie and Thick. You’d have to be pretty lucky to get a date with her but until then visit her on www.akynos.com

 

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January 5: $pread Magazine

by admin on December 6, 2011

Join $pread magazine contributors, editors, readers, and fans to celebrate the five year run of this sex worker produced, all-volunteer, quarterly magazine. Though $pread is sadly shutting down, we are going out with a bang. Get copies of the gorgeous final issue of the magazine, which explores race and the sex industry, and hear contributors Violet Stonefish and Andrea Ritchie read their pieces from the issue. We’ll also be joined by $pread editors and contributors who will read from the magazine and share stories about the project.

Hosted by Audacia Ray
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Doors at 7 pm, event from 8-10
21 and up – FREE

The Red Umbrella Project (RedUP) has roots in $pread magazine – RedUP’s founder, Audacia Ray, was a $pread editor from 2005 – 2008, and her involvement with the magazine laid the foundation for the work around media, advocacy, and personal storytelling that RedUP now does.

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December 1 – High and Dry

November 14, 2011

Hosted by Audacia Ray Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 21 and up – FREE 15% of the bar tab supports media training for sex workers Sam Benjamin was a proud member of the adult film industry for five years, following [...]

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Live Nude Waiting Room – Sheila McClear – Podcast Episode 55

October 27, 2011

Sheila McClear is a features reporter at the New York Post. Her writing has also appeared on Gawker.com, the Daily Beast, the New York Observer, and the New York Press. She is the author of the book The Last of the Live Nude Girls (Soft Skull Press, August 2011) She lives in Brooklyn. She read [...]

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November 3 – Demand Side

October 25, 2011

Hosted by Audacia Ray Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 21 and up – FREE 15% of the bar tab supports media training for sex workers Amber Dawn is an interdisciplinary based in Vancouver, Canada. She is the author of the [...]

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The Boss – Sophia Dazzle – Podcast Episode 54

October 25, 2011

Episode 54 features Sophia Dazzle’s story of drugs, young love (or lust), and gross bosses. Sophia Dazzle started working in the sex industry as a teenager, and has since become an avid sex worker activist, academic and performer. Though a born-and-bred New Yorker, she considers herself tri-cosmopolitan, splitting her time between three continents (North America, [...]

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October 6 – Liar!

September 28, 2011

  Hosted by Audacia Ray Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 21 and up – FREE 15% of the bar tab supports media training for sex workers Josh Ryely is an escort in NYC. He was recently nominated for best newcomer [...]

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Recipe for Disaster – Peter Bailey – Podcast Episode 53

September 5, 2011

In episode 53, Peter Bailey tells the story of his early years in New York, being a young man about town during the 1970s and 1980s. Peter Bailey has lived in Manhattan since 1970 and has been through hell and back at least twice. On his third trip, he’d like to go first class. He [...]

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September 1 – Catwalk

August 25, 2011

Hosted by Audacia Ray Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 21 and up – FREE 15% of the bar tab supports media training for sex workers Ceyenne Doroshow was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn  and raised by two equally homophobic parents. [...]

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Smile When You Say It: Guy Gonzales – Podcast Episode 52

August 7, 2011

In episode 52 Guy Gonzales reads a story about a strip club he worked in during the 1980s getting raided by the police. He read this piece at the Law and Orderthemed event on June 2, 2011. From swabbing pools of disgrace to live sex acts on stage, outlaw artist/writer Guy Gonzales repeatedly penetrated the [...]

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