Friday, May 24th at Center for Sex & Culture
1349 Mission St.
Note: The
first workshop,11 am is for sex workers only, but all other workshops
are open to all.
This location is
ADA accessible. Childcare, translation and signing services are available
upon request. We also ask you to assist us in making this a scent free
environment (see peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html
).Email sexworkerfest@gmail.com
or call 510-410-4318 to request these or other options. Also see Logistics/Accessibility.
11:00 am: "Tough
Language and Tender Wisdoms"
Memoir Writing Workshop for Sex Workers
by Amber Dawn
(sex workers only)
This workshop invites participants to write under-told
stories from their personal experience and to develop strategies to creating
safe and celebratory spaces for these stories to be heard. Freewriting
exercises, small group work and more! Whether participants are interested
in formally writing their memoirs or writing is a part of self-discovery,
this workshop will offer foundational memoir writing exercises in sex-worker-only
space.
12:45 PM: Empowerment & Marketing w/ Media
by Alice in Bondage Land (open to all)
Alice worked for local websites like Kink.com in their
start-up days and now has 250 videos and 50,000 photos of her own, documenting
lifestyle bdsm. She offers this class to help you explore your true calling
in sex work and transform your career through multimedia tools.
2:00 PM Whore
Logic: Stripping, Burlesque & Sex Work Politics
by The Incredible Edible Akynos (open to all)
Is it possible for a whore to be a happy, self respecting intellectual?
Explore the joys of being a happy hooker, and also the pains of being
a socially persecuted woman, choosing to live one’s life outside
society’s perceived sexual norms. Don't miss this workshop which
includes a live performance!
3:00
PM Housing Justice = Sex Worker Rights (open to all)
Presenters: Charlie Fredrick: Program Co-Coordinator for the Mission
SRO Collaborative: Jeb Creech: Outreach Coordinator for San Francisco’s
Women’s Community Clinic, a member organization of the Mission
SRO Collaborative
In this workshop we will explore how Housing Justice can be used as a
powerful framework for building solidarity with street-based sex workers.
We recognize that individuals involved in street-based economies represent
a marginalized population of workers who often experience disproportionate
levels of violence and exploitation when compared to the larger sex worker
community. The lack of stable and dignified housing means that these
individuals have far less control over the conditions of their labor,
namely the ability to refuse unsafe sexual practices or even the ability
to determine when and where they work. The precarious nature of the street-based
economy increases workers’ vulnerability to assault, police harassment,
and substance addiction. Housing Justice means increased agency and increased
agency is the key to achieving sex worker’s rights. (90 minutes)
Amber
Dawn
Tough Language & Tender Wisdoms:A Memoir Writing Workshop
for Sex Workers
(current and former sex workers only)
This workshop invites participants to write under-told stories from their
personal experience and to develop strategies to creating safe and celebratory
spaces for these stories to be heard. Whether participants are interested
in formally writing their memoirs or writing is a part of self-discovery,
this workshop will offer foundational memoir writing exercises in sex-worker-only
space.
Amber Dawn will use source material from her new book "How Poetry
Saved My Life: A Hustlers Memoir" and select other text to lead
participants through a series of freewriting exercises, small group work,
and discussion. Participants should come prepared to share and listen,
and bring pen and paper.
Learn more about Amber
Dawn.
The
Incredible Edible Akynos
If you ask anyone that you know, minister, mother,
police officer, judge, lawyer etc etc you will find out that
outside of what they do they have other talents. And they all
have sex too, it's not just me. I don't have sex or have an
interest in sex because I am a whore with no respect for myself.
Those are poor ways of thinking and you should feel free to
uplift yourself from that. Particularly when it's dealing with
women, sex is still till this day a hush hush, she should be
ashamed she's doing that kind of thing. Which in turns tells
me that if this is your state of mind you have issues. Particularly
one with thinking for yourself and analyzing the bullshit that
you've been fed for so long. I mean gosh, it's not your fault
that you think this way, but it is if you continue to be so
biased and so silly. I for one not only love the attention,
I love the freedom to express myself this way and in other ways.
If you have concerns with how I choose to express myself leave
now and check yourself at the door.
Learn more about The
Incredible Edible Akynos
Alice
in Bondage Land
From
the time she was old enough to watch Adam West’s Batman on television
and tie up dolls, Alice knew that she was kinky.
In college, she lived in a private dungeon and began moonlighting as
a prodom while working as a wedding photographer by day. She also started
working for local websites like www.SeriousBondage.com and www.Kink.com
in their start-up days. It wasn’t long before this natural born
exhibitionist began shooting videos of her own. That grew into a full
time calling to document lifestyle bdsm in a sexy and compelling way...
plus a lot of collaboration with local dominatrixes!
Before she had a video camera, she was taking kinky 35mm photos and developing
them herself. Before that, she used Polaroids. Before the Polaroids,
she drew kinky pictures that got her in trouble at school… and
before she could draw, she would write BDSM fiction and post it to alt.bdsm.stories.
Alice just can’t keep her kinkiness hidden! Now, her exhibitionism
has grown into over 250 videos and over 50,000 photos! She teaches classes
all over the world to both kinky and vanilla audiences.
Alice is notorious for public bondage “stunts” all over the
country and creating flash mobs and whimsical "happenings."
She is well known locally for wearing latex to the opera, cuffing sissies
to the Golden Gate Bridge and opening heart chakras with a jewel-encrusted
toilet plunger at the Saint Stupid's Day Parade.
Alice no longer takes private clients, but enjoys auditioning new collaborators
if they can sign a model release. Disguises optional on camera!