Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, March 4. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells!
21 and up – FREE
15% of the bar goes to support Project SAFE
Our performers this month:
Gerry Visco is illegally blonde. A writer, performer, photographer, fashionista, and radio show host on WKCR FM, she regularly covers parties, events, and the arts for New York Press in a weekly column and has also published stories and photographs in The Village Voice, Try State Magazine, birdsong, Gawker, the New York Sun, New York Magazine, Fit Yoga, Beyond Race, New York Blade Gay City News, $pread Magazine,  and other publications in print and online. She’s shown her photographs at Gallery U in Montclair, New Jersey, Envoy Gallery, and Artflux. She’s currently writing a tell-all memoir about her colorful life as muse, FIT student, actor, fag hag, rent girl, and disco diva in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. Her latest project is Gerrification, a global effort designed to bring joy and beauty to America and the world. Everyone needs a makeover. Far better than Paxil or Prozac, dressing like Gerry will improve your mood and your life just by being photographed donning her signature platinum wig, cat-eye glasses, and a spangly outfit.
N is an multi-form, multi-media artist who is a jill of all trades. As an award winning burlesque performer, she has traveled throughout the country to bring her queer, schizophrenic performance that will shock you and most importantly leave you thinking, which has earned her the title as “The NC17 Of Burlesqueâ€. In addition to co-producing her hit burlesque show HyperGender Burlesque in NYC, she is a videographer, professional singer, makeup artist, model and now sex blogger. She writes for the burlesque/sex themed blog The Vagina Adventures which are stories from a queer switch who is all about her vagina, and the women and things that go in them. Read more about her at www.thevaginaadventures.com, www.hypergender.com and www.nc17ofburlesque.com.
Anne Hanavan moved to NYC in 1985. She started off stripping at the Pussy Cat Lounge, did a few stints in some Brothels, and because of major dysfunction brought on by a huge heroin habit, she hit the strolls of the lower east side and stayed there for just under a decade. After kicking the habit 11 years ago Anne started making experimental sexually explicit videos were the artist aggressively confronts her past. Hanavan continues to take steps towards self absolution by writing were she takes the reader inside her head to see, from her perspective,  experiences of street walking, tricking, rape, robberies, jail, and the many people she interacted with along the way.
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir WHIP SMART (St. Martin’s Press). Her writing has been featured in The Southeast Review, Redivider, The Rambler, Storyscape Journal, Bitch Magazine, and Smut Magazine, among others. She co-curates and hosts the Mixer Reading and Music Series at Cake Shop, teaches at Purchase College, The Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and NYU, and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn. More information about her work and projects can be found at melissafebos.com.
About Project SAFE
Project SAFE’s mission is to promote human rights-based public health among women working in prostitution on the street in Philadelphia. SAFE is an organization dedicated to ensuring the health, safety and survival of women on the street by providing advocacy, education and support using a harm reduction model. SAFE seeks to reduce the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among working women, promote health and safety by arming women with relevant information and resources, and connect women to programs and services which are appropriate to their needs and interests. We believe in every woman’s right to health and well-being as well as in their competency to protect and help themselves, their loved ones and their communities. Our long-term vision for social justice includes creating a network of and for women who participate in the sex industry that promotes self-advocacy concerning health, legal rights, and public policy.
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[...] I posted about the upcoming Sex Worker Literati on March 4, but there is a whole lot more stuff happening over the next two weeks and change, both in NYC and [...]
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Well done. Your book, Naked on the Internet, is on my shelf and as of right now unread. I was pleasantly surprised to happen upon your blog.