I’ll be joining Red Emma’s at the Baltimore Book Festival to talk about Playing the Whore with a book signing to follow.
Melissa Gira Grant presents Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
Saturday September 27, 2:00PM
The Radical Bookfair Pavilion at the Baltimore Book Festival
In October, I’ll be speaking about Playing the Whore and the politics of sex work at a series of events in Germany and Switzerland, on the occasion of the book’s translation into German as Hure spielen: Die Arbeit der Sexarbeit. There will be strong talk, most likely strong drink, and it’ll be my first time back in Berlin since I was grounded there by a volcano in 2010.
Come out.
Zurich
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 8:00PM
Book presentation and discussion with Melissa Gira Grant
Facilitation and Translation: Mithu M. Sanyal
Venue:
Les Complices
Anwandstraße 9
Berlin
Friday, October 17, 2014, 7:00PM
Book presentation and discussion with Melissa Gira Grant
Presenter: PG Macioti
Venue:
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Salon
Franz-Mehring-Platz 1
10243 Berlin
Hamburg
Saturday, October 18, 2014, 7:30PM
Book presentation and discussion with Melissa Gira Grant
Facilitation and Translation: Mithu M. Sanyal
Venue:
GOLEM
Große Elbstraße 14
22767 Hamburg
Köln
Monday, October 20, 2014, 7:00PM
Book presentation and discussion with Melissa Gira Grant
Chair: Susanne Kleinfeld
Venue:
Odonien
Hornstr.85
50823 Köln
Bonn
Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 7:00 PM
Book presentation and discussion with Melissa Gira Grant
Chair: Susanne Kleinfeld
Venue:
Bookshop Le Sabot, Bonn
Breite Str. 76
53111 Bonn
More information can be found via my publisher Edition Nautilus and my host Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung.
Scratch, a digital magazine for writers, asked me to recount my book tour, with a focus on the money:
A book tour runs on invisible money. From March 12 to April 10, 2014, in ten cities (in seven time zones) over sixteen events, I toured my new book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. I “took her out.” For four weeks, I performed my value. My publisher, Verso Books, (almost entirely) covered my expenses, and I paid with my time away from freelancing. As a publicist friend told me, for the duration I should try to cultivate calm and remember that I was not the caterer—I was the party.
Read: “Selling Myself: A Book Tour Diary” at Scratch.
The World’s Oldest Procession wrapped its first US leg this week, and in a few hours, I’ll be off to London for two weeks of readings, talks, and assorted uprising.
The Observer ran a profile ahead of all this, with a new excerpt from the book.
At the University of Brighton on March 26, I’ll be in conversation with Georgina Voss, on sex work and labor
The London launch of Playing the Whore is Thursday, March 27 at Foyles, where I’ll be in conversation with journalist and author Laurie Penny.
I’ll speak as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas on Friday, March 28.
Conway Hall will host a talk on March 30.
Sunday Papers Live will have me presenting also on March 30.
I’ll be joined by the English Collective of Prostitutes at the University of London Union on March 31.
The Edinburgh University Feminists will host me on April 1.
We’ll close out the UK tour at the University of Glasgow Art School Bar on April 2.
with Annie Sprinkle, Washington DC, March 14, 2014
The US launch of Playing the Whore and The World’s Oldest Procession tour kicked off this week in Brooklyn at the powerHouse Arena.
The tour continues to Washington, DC, where on March 14 I’m giving a keynote at CatalystCon and on March 15 will be leading a workshop on The Work of Sex Work.
Brooklyn Law School presents a panel on Sex and the Law on March 17, where I’ll be discussing sex work and labor.
In San Francisco, The Booksmith will host a reading and signing on March 19. On March 21, at the Center for Sex and Culture, I’ll be the guest on a special live recording of The Whorecast podcast with host Siouxsie Q.
In Los Angeles, Stories will host a reading and signing on March 22.
My view, powerHouse Arena, March 12, 2014
Just in, the BIG BROTHEL IS WATCHING YOU bag to celebrate the launch of Playing the Whore and my book tour, The World’s Oldest Procession.
The bag bears a graphic originally produced in 1977 for the prostitutes’ rights newsletter Coyote Howls, screenprinted in 2014 by Melissa Dowell.
I’m honored that Margo St. James, founder of the first US prostitutes’ rights organization COYOTE, gave us enthusiastic permission to put this graphic back on the streets.
I’ll have a limited number of these on hand on tour. Come find me.
