$pread Blog

Come out to a screening of "In Our Own Image: Sex Worker Produced Media & The Story of $pread Magazine" 2009, Mandona Productions, 20 minutes

Wed. May 27th @ 7pm
Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen St. (btw Stanton & Rivington) in NY (directions below)                           

$5 suggested donation benefits Sex Worker Empowerment Project.

What happens when sex workers become not just the subjects of media gaze, but reporters and publishers of sex trade news?  This documentary short looks at $pread Magazine, an example of sex worker-made media, and discusses its aim to change the way media itself approaches sex work.  Followed by a panel/discussion on sex worker rights media, movements and legislation.

Panelists:

Andrea Ritchie, esq.: Civil Rights attorney and Director, Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center

Louise Cheung: current Photo Editor of $pread magazine, involved with the magazine for the past 2 1/2 years.

Ignacio Rivera: Queer, gender-shifting, Trans- Entity, Black Boricua performance artist, activist, sex educator and sex worker.  Ignacio is founder of Poly Patao Productions and founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice.

DIRECTIONS TO BLUESTOCKINGS BOOKSTORES

From www.bluestockings.com:

“Bluestockings is located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington - which means that we are 1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue.
By train: We are 1 block south of the F train’s 2nd Avenue stop and just 5 blocks from the JMZ-line’s Essex / Delancey Street stop.
By car: If you take the Houston exit off of the FDR, then turn left onto Essex (aka Avenue A), then right on Rivington, and finally right on Allen, you will be very, very close.”