When:Thursday, April 14, 2016 · 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Where: Bluestockings – 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
Lesbian Sex Mafia is planning a trip to the book store, more specifically Bluestockings Bookstore. If you are unfamiliar with Bluestockings, it is a 100% volunteer-powered and collectively-owned radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They carry over 6,000 titles on topics such as feminism, queer and gender studies, global capitalism, climate & environment, political theory, police and prisons, race and black studies, radical education, plus many more! You can also find some good ‘ole smutty fiction, sci-fi, and poetry . They also carry magazines, zines, journals, alternative menstrual products and other oddly hard-to-find good things. They host readings, workshops, performances, discussions and films almost every night. Their cafe offers delightful organic, vegan, and fair trade goodness.
Featuring:
Two Radical Femmes: An Intimate POV On Kink, Sex Work, Porn and Politics:
Feminist Porn Icons, Madison Young and Siouxsie Q, read from their recently published auto-biographical books that delve deep into the sexual undergrounds of kink and sex work through the feminist lens. Siouxsie Q will read from her recently published Truth, Justice and the American Whore, and Young will be reading from her memoir Daddy, which Margaret Cho calls “..downright inspirational
Can’t wait to see you there!