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$pread, the magazine produced by and for sex workers and their allies, is pleased to launch our eighth issue at the Bowery Poetry Club!

This multimedia event takes place from 8 to 9:30pm on Monday, February 19th, 2007. Expect performance, literary reading, slideshows and more, as past contributors, artists and featured people take to the stage. Featuring Sarah Katherine Lewis, author of Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It As A Girl for Hire.

6:00pm to 8:30pm
Sweeties, 475 Francisco x Mason
Host: Sex Workers Outreach Project USA & Sweeties
First come, first serve with bar food prepared by the bartender at Sweeties. No host bar.

(I won’t be there, but a bunch of my colleagues will be)

I’ve gotten a lot of comments and emails from people who don’t have money to spare for $pread, but would like to help in some other way. Though we’re always looking for volunteers (volunteer publicist anyone?), at the moment there’s just no way of getting around the fact that we need cold hard cash to [...]

This past weekend, $pread got some very bad news. The company that runs our online store for subscriptions and merch is going under, effective immediately, which presents problems like: we don’t have a store. This is entirely fixable, and it looks like we’re going to start using Google shop, though we’re experiencing a few days [...]

Candlelight vigil on the steps of Judson Memorial Church, photo by Erin Siegal.

Party with us, benefit-style! Friday, December 1st, 11pm – 4am The Delancey (downstairs), 168 Delancey Street $7 ($5 for sex workers) Its been a while since we’ve had a $pread party in New York with the requisite debauchery, drinking, and dirty dancing… almost a whole year! So come on out and hang with us, pick [...]

Erin painting our office door The finished product. Heh heh.

Its time for some fun media stuff… because I’m all over the goddamn place, little media whore that I am. First up, a wee mention of my movie in Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Village Voice column this week. Reading that first line made me laugh and remember, yeah I did say that – and many other [...]

One of the things that devoured my life in the early part of this week was driviing to Cape Cod to only have half-success in picking up the summer issue of $pread magazine. I won’t go into details, but suffice to say that the stresses of the trip yielded numerous phone calls to friends that [...]

I’m headed home! Hanging out in the airport in Vegas, enjoying the wireless, but eager to head back to New York. After the end of the conference yesterday I headed to New York New York (the ridiculous casino) to drink vodka and get retarded with my friends, befre a little more casino hopping (sans gambling) [...]