Artist, Sex Worker, and Advocate
i’m on the verge of having my instagram account deleted, at least so they say. their machine now detects words like onlyfans or porn, and gives you not a warning, but an immediate strike against your account. this has now happened to me three different times in recent months; there’s a list of each offending … Read more instagram really does hate me.
These are the trappings of an agendered, nonbinary, queer fat femme who works in the sex industry.
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?
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!
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”
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
Please visit VICE Motherboard to read the feature interview with Cris Sardina of the Desiree Alliance