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Join inside and outside comrades from the Support Ho(s)e Collective for a zine reading, history of organizing and a conditions update from inside an Illinois prison on Friday, April 24th 2020. 

This event will be held over Zoom, please RSVP for a meeting link. Participant Bios : Red (they/them) makes zines that center sex worker organizing, activist-oriented political education, prison/police abolition and incarcerated comrades’ stories. Alisha Walker (she/her) is a multi-media visual artist, poet, inside organizer, (former) sex worker and criminalized survivor. LeLe is a mixed ethinic, Black woman and self-described unapologetic whore. She is a member of the Support Ho(s)e Collective. Alisha is currently (forcibly) based in Decatur, Illinois. $10 suggested donation 11:30AM EST - 12:45PM EST Register here: bit.ly/SxHxZineReading 

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Where our NYC comrades will be next! Kink Out: Leather Lit Day at MoMA PS1!

From Kink Out: As an extension of Kink Out’s residency at MoMA PS1, LEATHER LIT DAY on January 11th, brings together kink and sex working people and allies for a day of storytelling, zine making, and community building.

PROGRAM 2–5pm zine making, facilitated by Niko Flux & Letter writing to incarcerated sex workers, facilitated by Red

ZINE MAKING: Zines are both whimsical and powerful tools in queer and sex worker communities. Inherently anti-establishment, these DIY magazines circulate to connect communities with art, literature, news, health and safety information, and activism. Queer leather zines like FIST (www.fistzine.com) and TOKEN (from 1998), have shared the identities of sadomasochists, pups, and punks, and the poetry that brews from blood, piss, queer bodies, and bondage. A selection of these zines, curated by Red, are available in Artbook at MoMA PS1 for perusal and purchase.

***SxHx will have our collection of zines for purchase, with all proceeds going to our work and to supporting our comrade Alisha Walker.***

LETTER WRITING: By writing a letter of support to an incarcerated sex worker, we can let community members know they are not forgotten. Writers are asked to keep letters positive, not to out people as sex workers, and set realizable expectations. Additional information and guidelines provided by the Support Ho(s)e Collective can be found at the letter-writing station.

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Next Week! Many thanks to Kink Out & the Leslie Lohman Museum for organizing and hosting!  

One of our comrades will be speaking on this panel discussing art, politics and queer liberation organizing! 

Tuesday, November 19, 20196:30-8:30 PM

Bow Down is a conversation between queer kink sex workers who discuss their particular field of sex work and how their sex careers inform their activism.

Our panelists will dig into particulars of the Whorearchy (the social, political, and economic hierarchy of sex work, both systematic and internalized), fetishism, power, sex, money, slut shaming within the broader sex industry, and how we fit into queer culture and LBGTQIA communities.

Kink Out presents an evening of Art x Activism x Conversation in conjunction with Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art's exhibition, ON OUR BACKS: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work , which explores the history of queer sex work culture.