Whore College

Whore College-Scarlot Harlot: Performance /Lecture

Sat, Jan 21 - Sun, Jan 29
8 PM
$10-20


Whore College presents Scarlot Harlot in a Performance and Lecture
Series
featuring weekly guests stars including Annie Sprinkle, Tina Butcher,
Carol Queen, Robyn Few, Natasha Sommers and Kitten on The Keys

Saturday and Sundays (Two weekends) January 21, 22, 28 and 29.
All Shows at 8 PM
Epicenter Gallery, 398 11th St. (near Harrison), San Francisco
Sliding Scale $10-$20
www.sexworkerfest.com/whorecollege
Contact for publication: 415-861-1157
Email:
Photos for Publication at: www.sexworkerfest.com/whorecollege

"Whore College" presents a series of educational and entertaining
evenings by long time sex worker, activist, artist Carol Leigh AKA
Scarlot Harlot. This series includes multi-media: song, dance,
schtick and slideshows in collaboration with local artists and
educators. Attend all four evenings and earn your continuing
education degree in "Sex Worker Arts and Politics."

On the occasion of the passage of the first federal (intrastate) anti-
prostitution legislation (HR 972, see www.bayswan.org/end_demand/)
Whore College launches an educational program presenting performances
and videos documenting sex worker art and resistance from around the
globe, plus discussions about new repressive laws and policies
brought to us by the Bush administration and our local moralists.
Each evening will be introduced by a guest star and focus on a theme
of sex worker arts and politics.

Presentations and performances:


Saturday, January 21st-Annie Sprinkle and Tina Butcher
Sunday, January 22nd Carol Queen with selections from Peep Show
Saturday, January 28th Robyn Few and SWOP
Sunday, January 29th Natasha Sommers assisting the Psychic Prostitute
and Kitten On the Keys

Additional contributions, costumes graphics and more by Dee Dee
Russell, Neon Weiss, Gilbert Baker, Wang Fang Ping, Sexy Shock,
Erochica Bamboo and others.

Also featured throughout January at the Epicenter Gallery is the
current exhibit sponsored by the Center for Sex and Culture, Tina
Butcher's "The Traveling Erotic Art Show" a touring kinky exhibition
of curated mixed media including live performance art, video art, and
photography on the subjects of kink, bondage, and fetishism.


"Scarlot Harlot presents Whore College" Schedule

1. Sex Worker Political Art from Around the Globe- Saturday, January
21st

This series is introduced by Annie Sprinkle Ph.D., prostitute/porn
star turned performance artist/sexologist. Her autobiography, Post
Porn Modernist (Cleis Press) is a cult classic and her last book,
Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex
in Performance, won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award (2002).
Her brand new book, "Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular -- Makeover Your Love
Life" (Penguin/Tarcher) is her first mainstream how-to self-help book.

Also featured this evening is Tina Butcher and her bondage persona
Madison Young, collaborating in a spectacular spoken word and bondage
performance in beautiful suspension. Tina is a performance artist,
and founder of Femina Potens Art Gallery. Madison Young is a bondage
and fetish model who travels the world getting tied up for videos and
magazines.

Scarlot Harlot introduces her series with her slide show about sex
worker culture from around the world featuring a report about her
recent participation at the European Sex Workers Conference in
Brussels in October 2005. This presentation has screened
internationally and at colleges in the US and presents a unique
collection of artifacts from sex workers from all over the world.

2- "Sex Workers in the Looking Glass" Sunday, January 22nd

Carol Queen introduces the evening, performing segments from Peep
Show. We go behind the scenes at the pre-union Lusty Lady Theatre
with Queen, who worked there as Minx Manx in 1990! In her solo spoken
word piece Peep Show she introduces you to her colleagues in tall
boots and blonde wigs and to a few of her most notable customers as
she found her calling (and her exhibitionistic self) in the Private
Pleasures booth, where anyone could come to Talk To A Live Nude Girl!

Carol Queen is the author of "Exhibitionism for the Shy," "Real Live
Nude Girl," and "The Leather Daddy and the Femme" and the co/editor
of seven other books. She's been in several sex ed videos, including
Bend Over Boyfriend, and is both the director of the Center for Sex &
Culture and the staff sexologist at Good Vibrations.

Leigh performs pieces from her book, Unrepentant Whore and screens
videos of sex worker performances, focusing on self-representation.

3- "The Truth About Trafficking and Other Stories" January 28th
Robyn Few of SWOP and Scarlot Harlot combine talents and passions as
they educate you about recent trends in anti-prostitution legislation.

This evening of song, film and politics features Robyn Few, Director
of Sex Workers' Outreach Project. Filmmaker Few will screen her
recent documentary about decrminalization in New Zealand and discuss
SWOP's recent efforts in their campaign to decriminalize
prostitution. Leigh and Few also launch their musical debut in
"Puttanesca."

Leigh's Power Point show "The Truth About Trafficking" presents a sex
worker rights perspective on the current discourses about
trafficking. Providing little known gossip and facts about how
mainstream feminists (even Gloria Steinem!) sold out the sex workers
tracing the current anti-trafficking framework to the 19th century
white slavery movement.

Few and Scarlot will talk about recent legislation and policies which
target all commercial sex from porn to prostitution and could have an
effect on San Francisco's economy and the welfare of our city's
residents. Come to Whore College this evening and learn why the Bush
police might knock down your door.

4-"The Trick and Pimping Show" Sunday, January 29th featuring Madame
Scarlot, Psychic Prostitute with Natasha Sommers, and also starring
Kitten on The Keys

The Psychic Prostitute launches this evening with her amazing
supernatural powers. Madame Harlot will guess your sexual kinks and
fetishes simply by meditating on your aura (as prostitutes do,
ofcourse) Warning: Don't bring anyone from whom you have any secrets!

Kitten on the Keys, Suzanne Ramsey, will open the show with naughty,
outrageous ditties such as "Grandma Sells My Panties on E-bay." She
is a firkeytoodlin' frisky feline galloping with uber kittitude. As
seen on HBO, E! , IFC, Queer TV and other media outlets, she embodies
the spirit and style of those days of decadence gone by. Suzanne won
the SF Weekly Music Award in the New Genre/Beyond Category for her
campy vaudevillian performances of her kinky cabaret ditties in 2003!
At the 2nd Annual NY Burlesque festival, Kitten won a Golden Pastie
Award for being the Biggest Tease! Pianist and chanteuse, expect a
racy ragtime romp when this little kitty sharpens her claws on a meow
mix medley of mad cap gems of yesteryear with a naughty whimsical
edge. Suzanne has performed in London, Paris, Vienna, Tokyo, Nantes
and Lille(France) and US cities.

Buy Scarlot's Book at Amazon.com

Unrepentant Whore: Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot
by Carol Leigh , 240 pages/paperback/ ISBN 0-86719-584-3

Scarlot Harlot, unrepentant whore, activist, and artist, is a brazen,
brainy hooker. Since the late 1970s, Harlot (AKA Carol Leigh) has
written, performed and produced work in a variety of genres on
women's issues and her experiences in the sex industry. This
collection of articles and essays documents over twenty years of
prostitute radicalism from a leader of the sex workers' rights
movement. Heady, political, and sexy, these autobiographical missives
defend sex, queer rights and reproductive freedom and attack
fundamentalist feminism, economic injustice and discrimination.
Leigh's writings explore a historic cultural and artistic underground
from an irreverent point of view, challenging conventions of
sexuality, aesthetics, technology and prevailing social mores.

Additional Info:

415-861-1157
htp://www.sexworkerfest.com/whorecollege