Event Listing - Literary Arts, Gay
Wed Jul 2 - Wed Dec 17

Sex Workers' Writing Workshop

With Gina de Vries


Website
$10 - $20

Location
Date and Time
Center for Sex & Culture
1519 Mission Steet, Suite 1
San Francisco, CA 94114
district: SoMa

Wed Jul 2 (7pm - 9pm)
Wed Jul 16 (7pm - 9pm)
Wed Aug 6 (7pm - 9pm)
Wed Aug 20 (7pm - 9pm)
Wed Sep 3 (7pm - 9pm)

Description
This is a writing workshop for people who work or have worked in all areas of the sex industry to share their writing and get honest, non-judgemental feedback. Workshop participants are not obligated to write exclusively about sex work, but writing about work in the sex industry (as well as writing about other topics) will be welcomed. This will hopefully be a place where people can write and share about their sex work experiences without having to censor themselves, explain every detail, or endure stupid questions and moral judgements. Beginning writers are encouraged to attend along with more seasoned writers.

We will write using a modified version of the Amherst method: A writing prompt will be given, people will write for 30-45 mins, and then we will share what we've written and get feedback if we want it.

When?: The first and third Wednesday of every month, starting July 2nd, 7pm-9pm. Where?: The Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission Street, San Francisco How much?: Sliding scale $10-20 (more if you can, less if you can't, *nobody* turned away)

Who's teaching this, anyway?: Gina de Vries is a queer femme writer, rabble-rouser, activist, sex worker, proud pervert, and Paisan. She co-edited (with Diane Anderson-Minshall) the queer youth anthology [Becoming]: young ideas on gender, identity, and sexuality, and her fiction, journalism, memoir, and smut have appeared dozens of places, including: Baby, Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing, Dirty Girls, More Five Minute Erotica, TransForming Community, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Bound to Struggle: Where Kink & Radical Politics Meet, The Revolution Starts at Home, make/shift magazine, and Curve magazine (where she was a columnist from 1997-2004). Gina curates shows for long-running queer performance series San Francisco in Exile, blogs for national LGBT blog Bilerico.com, and teaches writing workshops wherever willing pupils will have her. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Sex & Culture, and the Board of Youth Trans & Intersex Education Services. She can be cruised online at ginadevries.com and queershoulder.livejournal.com.