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On Sunday, $preadsters past and present gathered at my apartment in Brooklyn for a serious conversation about the future of the magazine. After several hours of lively debate, and some misty eyes, we decided that the best thing to do is to discontinue the publication of $pread magazine. It’s a sad and heavy thing, but [...]

Sex worker culture is alive, well, and self-documenting. I’m proud to be a part of this thing we call a movement. In the next week and change there are some totally awesome events happening, expressions of sex workers and the media we’re making. Two here in NYC, one in San Francisco: SCREENING: “In Our Own [...]

$pread Magazine’s “Dance Party on the Downturn” A Launch Party for Issue 4.4 The slutty staffers of $pread Magazine (www.spreadmagazine.org), a publication by and for people in the sex industry, are throwing a dance party for the launch of their hard-hitting “The Economy” Issue. DJ Tanner and DJ Sir Loins’ll be spinning while a grab-bag [...]

I’ve made a big, weird decision that I’m still getting used to, but the cogs are in motion and it is happening. Effective with the spring issue and the start of $pread’s fourth year in print, I’ve decided that I will no longer be the executive editor of the magazine, nor will I be directly [...]

After two weeks of (relative) relaxation – which still doesn’t seem to involve more than 5 hours of sleep a night – I’m gearing up for the west coast leg of my tour. However, I do need to squeeze in one last NYC event before I go – and that’s happening tomorrow at Arena Studios [...]

This is me last night towards the end of the opening, trying on Norene Leddy’s Platforms – art-activism-shoes designed as a project to raise awareness for violence against street workers. They’ve got GPS which means they are blinky, along with other impressive technical attributes. (And yes, that is a new and almost-complete half sleeve tattoo [...]

Metro ran a really nice piece today about my art show, with a focus on the dildo painting event. You can check it out here. The actual paper also has a cute lil’ pic of me. Yesterday afternoon I did most of the installation for the show, which in addition to hanging art on the [...]

*or other populations that are struggling with human rights issues, with whom you do not identify but with whom you sympathize When I send out calls for submission to $pread and associated events and projects, I always state that I am primarily looking for work from people who are current or former sex workers. Typically, [...]

This afternoon a group of New York City-based sex workers gathered at Arena Studios, the co-sponsor of Sex Worker Visions II, the second annual show of sex workers’ art that I’m curating. New online sex toy shop Vibrator.com generously provided us with a bag full of dildos for us to defile in the name of [...]

We thoroughly packed the Bowery Poetry Club on Monday night to release our eighth issue, and many people read, and it was lovely. It was pretty fabulous to look out at the crowd and not see too many familiar faces (except pretty Molly Crabapple up at the front there) – this means the word is [...]