Sex Workers' Art Show

To: Retort
Via: LW

Sex Workers' Art Show
The Implosion of the Service Economy

Sunday, January 20th, 8pm
Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St, San Francisco
$12

The Sex Workers’ Art Show is a cabaret-style evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that we are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses! The artwork and performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work. The show hopes through its diversity of viewpoints to move beyond “positive” and “negative” into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience our jobs and our lives. You can read more about the show at www.sexworkersartshow.com.

This year's lineup of performers includes international burlesque sensation and recipient of the "Best Body in Burlesque" award, Miss Dirty Martini; the brilliant and infamous author of I Love Dick, Chris Kraus; porn star and writer, Lorelei Lee; award-winning author of How I Learned to Snap, Kirk Read; performance artist and comic queen of cleavage The World Famous *BOB*; playwright, performer, and musical theatre mutineer, Erin Markley; fierce activist and rapper, Tre Vasquez; internationally infamous drag-subverting performer, Krylon Superstar; dominatrix Keva I. Lee; and tour founder and ringmaster, Annie Oakley.

The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc.  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!

"Annie Oakley doesn't need a gun.  She's armed with fierce creativity, political passion, big brains and exquisite sexiness.  As the Sex Workers' Art Show's director,  Oakley leads a brilliant crew which serves up whore culture at its most delicious and satisfying." - Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D.

"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