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Sex Workers Art Show Tour and Book Release!
The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour is coming to back to Chicago!
Check out www.sexworkersartshow.com
Last year Sex Workers Art Show performed to sold out crowds! This years show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!
The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again, bringing audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry.
Making its debut this year is the release of the anthology entitled Working Sex: Sex Workers write about a Changing Industry, edited by none other than the amazing Annie Oakley. Angry and academic, sexy and sordid, hot and hilarious, Working Sex offers a unique take on class, race, gender and labor from people who live and work in the crucible of our collective desire and revulsion! Contributers include Bruce La Bruce, Michelle Tea, Eileen Miles, Nomy Lamm, Vaginal Davis and many more. Like the inspiring cabaret show, Working sex is written by men and women with life experience in the sex trade- making it the most diverse anthology about the sex industry in the US.
Don't miss your chance to see this year's incredible cabaret lineup of performers includes international burlesque sensation and winner of the "Best Body in Burlesque" award, Miss Dirty Martini; infamous feminist author of I Love Dick Chris Kraus; award-winning author of the coming-out memoir How I Learned to Snap, Kirk Read; porn star and writer Lorelei Lee; performance artist and comic queen of cleavage The World Famous *BOB*; performer and musical theatre mutineer Erin Markey; fierce activist and rapper Tre Vasquez; internationally infamous drag-subverter Krylon Superstar; dominatrix and destroyer of Asian feminine mythology Keva I. Lee; and tour founder and director Annie Oakley.
Special guest at select locations: platinum-selling hip-hop queen Trina!
The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers' Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions of class, race, gender, labor and sexuality!
"The Sex Workers' Art Show is not simply a display of those in the sex industry... but an active force in articulating, shaping, and contesting the meaning of the identity "sex worker" in the public sphere" --Theatre Journal
Ticket sales benefit the Young Women's Empowerment Project
For more information about the show or to request an interview contact annie@sexworkersartshow.com
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LocationFunky Buddha
728 W Grand Ave
Chicago, IL
United States
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