Blog Carnival Call for Posts: Healing Touch

September 3, 2010

If you can’t get to New York to see or perform in our monthly live event,  the Blog Carnival is a way for sex workers and their allies to participate in the Red Umbrella Diaries from afar. Every month, I do a carnival of pieces of writing on the upcoming event’s theme. For the next [...]

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Dancer (An Excerpt): Ignacio Rivera – Podcast Episode 8

August 30, 2010

Episode 8 features a short excerpt of Ignacio Rivera’s one person show, “Dancer.” The piece was recorded during a live event on September 3, 2009 that featured contributors to $pread magazine. Ignacio Rivera is a Queer, gender fluid, Trans- Entity, Black Boricua performance artist, lecturer/trainer, activist, new filmmaker, sex worker and self-proclaimed sex educator. Ignacio [...]

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Blog Carnival: Demand Side

August 28, 2010

This month’s blog carnival leads up to the September 2nd Demand Side live event at Happy Ending, starring Caveh Zahedi, Daniel Lukes, Emma Lee,  Puma Perl & Big Mike  – and one of the stories below. For the blog carnival, I’ve got a bunch of pieces that look at the demand side from a few [...]

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Blog Carnival: Demand Side – For William

August 28, 2010

This piece is by story – check out her blog, The Story of Story. most of the other girls sit in clusters during this part of the night. they know each other and share cigarettes. i don’t know them, i’m from far away, having ran away from home to get naked for money. i’m sitting [...]

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Blog Carnival: Demand Side – An Interview with Emily Jones

August 28, 2010

As part of an interview with Quiet Riot Girl, Emily Jones, an escort working in London, talks about the clients she works with. Whenever I start writing about sex work, it makes my brain feel like it is folding in on itself. I have never known anything so complicated, or hard to explain, yet that [...]

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Ode to My Fellow Dancers: Busty Kitten – Podcast Episode 7

August 22, 2010

Episode 7 features a story by Busty Kitten, “Ode to My Fellow Dancers.” The story was recorded during the Coworkers and Co-conspirators live event on July 1, 2010. Busty Kitten is a theatrical know-it-all, muse and artiste, and feminist barstool philosopher. She co-produces and co-hosts The Giddy Multitude Vaudeville Co, a monthly cabaret of circus, [...]

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September 2 – Demand Side

August 17, 2010

Hosted by Audacia Ray Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City Thursday, September 2. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 21 and up – FREE Starring: Caveh Zahedi received a B.A. in Philosophy at Yale University and an M.F.A. in Film Production at the UCLA School of Film [...]

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Helmut the Maid: Alex Kinney – Podcast Episode 6

August 15, 2010

Episode 6 features the story “Helmut the Maid,” told by Alex Kinney. The story was recorded during a live event on December 3, 2009. Alex Kinney is an old whore who has prostituted himself in the Ivy League, America’s regional theaters, the Golden Hills of Hollywood, one cold Christmas in Dublin, and more lengthily, the [...]

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A Father’s Pain: Mistress Astrid – Podcast Episode 5

August 8, 2010

Episode 5 features the story “A Father’s Pain,” told by Mistress Astrid. The story was recorded during the Love and Pain live event on February 4, 2010. Mistress Astrid has been a professional dominatrix and lifestyle player for four years. She is also a proud member of the Leather Family of La Domaine Esemar, the [...]

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Blog Carnvial Call for Posts: Demand Side

August 6, 2010

Lots of people ask how they can be involved with the Red Umbrella Diaries if they can’t get to New York to see or perform in the show. The Blog Carnival is a way for sex workers and their allies to participate in the Red Umbrella Diaries from afar. Every month, I do a carnival [...]

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