I just got news that the Sex Workers Art Show is coming to San Francisco!

The hell-on-wheels traveling family circus that is the Sex Workers Art Show
tour is making its San Francisco stop on Sunday, January 20th at the
Victoria Theatre, which is San Francisco’s oldest operating theater, built
in 1908. Come and have Barbary Coast flashbacks and past-life regressions.
You’ll see classic and reinvented burlesque, hear jawdropping stories of
life in the sex industry and see performance art that will give you wild
dreams for months to come.

I’m glad that the Victoria is showing this Art Show, and is opening up after a surprisingly cold rejection last year, to once again become the theater our sex positive community can love.

Sunday, January 20, 2008, 8pm
The Sex Workers Art Show (http://www.sexworkersartshow.com/)
Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street between Mission and S. Van Ness
All for the insanely low price of $12
Advance tickets: www.victoriatheatre.org/

Hosted by Annie Oakley

Featuring:
Dirty Martini
Chris Kraus
Kirk Read with Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Lorelei Lee
The World Famous *BOB*
Erin Markey
Krylon Superstar
Keva I. Lee

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The Sex Workers’ Art Show Tour is coming to your town! The 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.

This year’s incredible lineup of performers includes international burlesque
sensation and recipient 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;
internationally infamous drag-subverter Krylon Superstar; dominatrix and
destroyer of Asian feminine mythology Keva I. Lee; and tour founder and
director Annie Oakley.

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!

Also featured at the show will be a new anthology of sex worker writings,
Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry (Seal Press),
edited by Annie Oakley. Working Sex features work by several of the show¹s
performers, as well as Eileen Myles, Bruce LaBruce, Nomy Lamm, Michelle Tea,
and many more!

“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

“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, Phd

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