Doing Your Dirty Work
Doing Your Dirty Work: a sampler of contemporary art about sex
Open to Artists in the United States“Doing Your Dirty Work” is the second annual group exhibition at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, California. We invite all artists that are at…
Erotic Reading Circle
Wednesday May 22, 7:30-9:30 pm
$5 suggested donation
Come share new or old work with us! We listen non-judgmentally and share our responses with any writer/reader who feels s/he/ze can benefit from peers’ feedback. And it’s great practice if you’ve been thinking about doing any public readings. We welcome writers of any experience level and every orientation. A Best of the Bay award-winning event! 4th Wednesdays.
Facilitated by Jen Cross (of Writing Ourselves Whole) and Carol Queen
Oral Services Spoken Word
May 23, 2013, Thursday
Center for Sex & Culture 1349 Mission St. SF
Cost: $5-$20 NTALF
Tel: 415-857-5425
7PM Open Mic; 7:30 PM Featured Readers
The 8th Biennial Sex Worker Fest welcomes Amber Dawn (author of Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa) launching her new work “How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustlers Memoir” on Thursday, May 23rd at “Oral Sarvices,” an evening of spoken word. Others providing “Oral Services” include Brontez Purnell, Laure McElroy, Juba Kalamka, 2009 Lambda Award winner Rhiannon Argo, Ckiara Rose, Lola Sunshine, Jacques La Femme, editors of Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, Daphne Gottlieb and Lisa Kester, and participants from an MNRC workshop w/ POOR Magazine.
Sex workers, come at 7 PM to sign up and read for the open mic!
Tabling: Sex worker literature and more by Modern Times.
Institute of Sexworkology
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
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!
SF Jacks - now in our 27th year of Pubic Service!
Monday May 27th, 7:30-8:30
Center for Sex and Culture: 1349 Mission St. San Francisco, CA
* Just dik… desire… and lots of naked guys in a room!
* SF Jacks meat the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
* Doors: 7:30 - 8:30 PM only, play until you’re finished.
* $7 Donation Suggested; no one turned away for lack of funds.
* 13th Jacks Virgin is our guest!
* For more info, call: 415 267-6999
sfjacks.com
May 28th 7:00-9pm at Center for Sex and Culture 1349 Mission st, SF CA
Getting an Act together:
Students are encouraged to come with an act or character in mind. We will develop personas and discuss song choice, prop use, costume selection and techniques for coming up with acts; as well as some basic movement. This class will include discussion and group work bring 3 items that inspire you.
LGBTQ Salsa Dance Lesson & Social with Alexandria
May 30th, 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Center for Sex and Culture: 1349 Mission St. (between 9th and 10th), San Francisco
All genders and all orientations welcome!
All bodies and all ages welcome!
All skill levels welcome!
Doors open at 6:30pm. Lesson is 90 mins, starts at 7:30pm.
Mingle, socialize, dance, and get one-on-one coaching with the instructor both before and after the lesson.
My plan is to get a bunch of SF queers into salsa dancing so we can then schedule some Rainbow Guerrilla Salsa nights! For anyone who doesn’t know, a rainbow guerrilla night is when queers take over (without much/any advance notice to the establishment) an otherwise heterosexual event/club/bar/restaurant/etc.
Please pay online using paypal athttp://www.meetup.com/SFLGBTQ-SalsaDance/ OR bring cash to the door (exact change is appreciated).
Half of the money from every class goes to The Center for Sex and Culture, which is a VERY cool queer-run non-profit. For more on them check out www.sexandculture.org
If you want to give them some extra $, as a thank you for giving us their space for these classes, that’d be nice too!
No one turned away for lack of funds! Please NEVER avoid class just because you can’t afford it. I believe in our community and I know times are hard all around. I teach because I love it, and I know dance lifts us up. When in doubt, come dance. :-)
If you have any suggestions or requests about classes, or our group, or anything else, please shout out!
Lessons are alcohol-free events.
June 1st, 8pm-10
How to Fuck Better: Practical Applications for Good Sex
Class 2: Greasing The Wheel
June 2, 2013
12-3 pm
Fairoaks Project: Photographs by Frank Melleno
Open Reception June 7, 2013 7-10 pm
Polaroids from a San Francisco bathhouse in 1978
Curated by Gary Freeman
Center for Sex and Culture
1349 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
A Rare Look inside a SF Gay Bathhouse in 1978
Frank Melleno’s Polaroid photography captured an extraordinary glimpse into pre-AIDS gay sexual culture. Melleno was part-owner and night manager of The Fairoaks Hotel, a unique San Francisco bathhouse operating from 1977 to 1979. His candid images are remarkable, documenting the social and sexual behavior with celebration and no apology.
The Fairoaks was owned and operated by a gay commune, lending a counter-culture approach to the establishment. There were monthly theme parties including costume and “Open Door” parties, when room doors would be removed from hinges. Many images contain nudity and erotic scenes.
The restored images, known as The Fairoaks Project, were well received at Los Angeles venues Highways and drkrm/Gallery. The Advocate and Lambda Literary have written articles on The Fairoaks Project.
The Boyfriend, a singing trio tracing its origin to performance artist Vaginal Davis, will perform at the opening.
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