my gender
These are the trappings of an agendered, nonbinary, queer fat femme who works in the sex industry.
Writing
Illustrations for Peepshow Media
It started in mid-2020, when I began working with Peepshow on website work. They needed featured images for what they were posting, so I started putting together collages. What I end up with is a body of work that symbolically talks about sex work through collage imagery. I’m into it, are you?
New Writing Up at Peepshow Media magazine!
I’m publishing a weekly news round up of stories from around the sex industry over at Peepshow Media called ICYMIXXX . I hope people get some use of it, as I find it really useful to write out what’s happening and document it for historical meaning, especially when we’re experiencing a global pandemic and governmental … Read more New Writing Up at Peepshow Media magazine!
The Frontlines of the War On Sex are Being Fought by Sex Workers, and We Are Fighting The Battle of a Lifetime Right Now.
Some things you must know about before you can understand this essay would be What FOSTA Is, and What Sex Work is. I no longer have the bandwidth to cover these things anew in my writing so follow along as best you can, or go read up a little first and come back. Your choice. … Read more The Frontlines of the War On Sex are Being Fought by Sex Workers, and We Are Fighting The Battle of a Lifetime Right Now.
Pop Pornography: A Party with Cardi
The set began with the recorded intro from “Get Up 10” coming through the sound system while Cardi B’s dancers took formation on the dark stage at the Hard Rock Hotel’s smallest venue, Vinyl. The song is one of the notoriously omnisexual musical artist Cardi B’s sex worker manifestos; describing how stripping saved her from … Read more Pop Pornography: A Party with Cardi
LAMBDA Litfest reading by the contributors of “Hustling Verse”
September 25 @ 7:30 pm Skylight Books 1818 N Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90027 Phone:+13236601175 Website:http://www.skylightbooks.com/ Skylight Books presents LAMBDA Litfest reading by the contributors of “Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry.” This book is a fiercely groundbreaking exploration of intimacy, transactional sex, identity, healing, and resilience. Hustling Verse (Arsenal Pulp Press) Pre Order Hustling Verse … Read more LAMBDA Litfest reading by the contributors of “Hustling Verse”
Notes on Leaving: Photo Memoir and My New SF MoMA Open Space Column
I have published four pieces on Open Space, an interdisciplinary publishing platform by San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art as part of a residency, and have now become a permanent artist columnist for the project, joining a family that includes a few of my mentors and idols like Dodie Bellamy, Bean Gilsdorf, Dynasty Handbag, Xandra … Read more Notes on Leaving: Photo Memoir and My New SF MoMA Open Space Column
Largest Sex Worker Conference in the US Is Canceled Amid FOSTA Fears
Please visit VICE Motherboard to read the feature interview with Cris Sardina of the Desiree Alliance
Cristy C. Road’s “Next World Tarot” Boldly Defines a New Generation of Saints
Please read this essay at Autostraddle, thank you!
I’m A 90’s (Porno) Bitch
Introduced to the birth of internet porn around the birth of my own puberty, I used to encounter porn (Pamela Anderson’s sex tape, Girls Gone Wild among the most common) in the forms of public freebies on early websites or in file sharing chat rooms on IRC. Before the internet entered my life I was … Read more I’m A 90’s (Porno) Bitch
Chelsea Poe’s “Inauthentic Masterpiece” and Earnest Integrity
Please visit the story on Autostraddle, thank you!
Stigma and the shaping of the porn industry
2016 Porn Studies Volume 3, Issue 2: Porn Labor, Stigma and the shaping of the porn industry