Sat/Sun Jan 21,2,8,9 Whore College Scarlot Harlot w/SWOP-Few, Queen, Sprinkle, Kitten/Keys

Below is my press release for my very own show,
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/whorecollege with fabulous opening
acts, listed below. These shows will include performance as well as
lectures on current sex worker issues. (If you want to volunteer and
help, let me know!!)

I hope you can come a lot, like opening night, January 21st,
Saturday, AND THE SWOP SHOW WITH ROBYN FEW, SATURDAY JANUARY 28TH!!!
SWOP star Natasha Sommers is January 29th!

I am excited about working on some new and some old
material...getting organized to go on the Sex Worker Art Show Tour
all around the country. http://www.sexworkersartshow.com/ so check
out the schedule if you live outside the Bay Area.

Love and condoms,

Scarlot Harlot


Whore College presents Scarlot Harlot: A Performance and Lecture
Series (featuring weekly guests stars including Annie Sprinkle, Carol
Queen, Robyn Few, Natasha Sommers and Kitten on The Keys)
Dates: Saturday and Sundays (Two weekends) January 21, 22, 28 and 29.
Times: All Shows at 8 PM
Location: Epicenter Gallery, 398 11th St. (near Harrison), San Francisco
Cost: Sliding Scale $10-$20
URL: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/whorecollege
Contact for Publication: 415-861-1157
Email: harlot [at] unrepentantwhore.com
Photos for Publication at: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/whorecollege


"Whore College" is a series of educational and entertaining evenings
by long time sex worker, activist, artist and dean of whores, Carol
Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot. This series includes multi-media song,
dance, schtick and Power Point presentations 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
http://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 including a poem by Annie Sprinkle
(January 21st); Carol Queen with selections from Peep Show (January
22nd); Robyn Few and SWOP (January 28th); and Kitten on The Keys
(January 29th). Additional contributions, costumes graphics and more
by Dee Dee Russell, Neon Weiss, Gilbert Baker, Gina Gold, Wang Fang
Ping, Sexy Shock, Erochica Bamboo and others.

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.


Scarlot Harlot presents "Whore College" Schedule

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

Scarlot 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. This show has screened internationally and at colleges in
the US and presents a unique view.

2- "Sex-Mart Expose and Ho' Theater" 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 Kitten on The
Keys
The Psychic Prostitute launches this evening with her amazing
supernatural powers. Madame Harlot and lovely assistant, Natasha
Sommers, will guess your sexual kinks and fetishes simply by
meditating on your aura (as prostitutes do, of course) 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.