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Body of Work Writing Workshop on 6/11 and Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop on 6/13 both CANCELLED

Hey foxy folkses,

I’m cancelling both the Body of Work Writing Workshop on 6/11 and Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop on 6/13. (I’m currently on Day 12 of the terrible summer flu that’s been going around, and need to conserve spoons for the debut of Body of Work next week.)

Come out to the show on 6/16, though, and come to Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop in July!

<3 (& gird yr immune systems – this thing is nasty!), Gina

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Body of Work is NEXT TUESDAY! Get your tickets now!

Hello darlings,

I am so. excited. about the debut of Body of Work at National Queer Arts Festival on June 16th. Tickets are still available, so get yours ASAP!

Additionally, we are in need of a few volunteers to help out the night of the performance (in exchange for free admission to the show, of course). If you've got a couple hours to spare next Tuesday night and would like to be helpful, give us a holler at [email protected].

Lots more info about the show is just below my signature line. Come see us on June 16th! And have a lovely summer!

<3, Gina

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Body of Work: June 16th in the National Queer Arts Festival! Tickets NOW ON SALE!

Body of Work Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Ceremonial Room, LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street (San Francisco) 7:30pm Featuring: Neve Be, Katherine Cross, Gina de Vries, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Cinnamon Maxxine, Rachel K. Zall $12-$20 (No One Turned Away, for really realz! If you need a NOTAFLOF ticket, email [email protected] to be added to our NOTAFLOF list.) ASL Interpretation Provided / Wheelchair Accessible Venue / Scent-Free Policy Queer Cultural Center link: http://qcc2.org/bodyofwork/ BrownPaperTickets link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1568343 Fcbk Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/913887711995214/ Tumblr: http://bodyofworkproductions.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Body_of_Work Body of Work is a multi-media performance show exploring queerness, sexuality, disability, chronic illness, and the question: “How do you have a body?” Seasoned disabled queer cultural workers join forces with emerging disabled queer cultural workers across multiple disciplines. This year’s cast includes queer, trans, and non-binary writers, dancers, film-makers, and performance artists, whose genres and passions span from the pornographic to the academic and back again. The directive for each artist is deceptively simple: "Make art about what it means to have a body; what it means to be queer and disabled and alive in 2015.“ The result? Like nothing you’ve ever experienced before.

ARTIST BIOS:

Neve Be is black, crippled, perverted, and regal. They crawled out of a book to sing and dance and bleed for you. Neither hero nor villain, but here to help some of us, should we want it, and if we can offer something of heart, of weight, and depth in return. Not always serious. Anarchist. Punk. Sorcerer. Choreographer. Writer. Filmmaker. Mouth user. Fine gross artist.

You can find Neve’s work in Maximum Rock n Roll and forthcoming in various publications. You can also find their adult star alias Lyric Seal online at lyricsealsucks.tumblr.com, on modelviewculture.com, and in their column "Slumber Party” on crashpadseries.com.On Twitter: @fancylyric, instagram: @selkiesonthetide. For love/sex/body/relationship/selfhood advice email [email protected]!

Expect a book to crawl out of Neve, next spring, called Taking it Lying Down, through ThreeLmedia.

Photo Credit: Chani Bockwinkel, “Dykes with Ducks” 2014

Katherine Cross is a Ph.D student in Sociology and Magnet Presidential Fellow at the City University of New York’s Graduate Centre. Her research interests centre on gender in virtual space, with a particular focus on studying the social dynamics that animate online harassment. Her academic work has appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Loading: The Journal of the Canadian Games Studies Association, and First Person Scholar. In addition to this, she also writes as a weekly columnist for Feministing about digital culture and serves as the site’s unofficial nerd correspondent. She’s covered sex, gender, and sexuality for years at publications including Questioning Transphobia, Bitch Magazine, Offworld, and RH Reality Check.

Gina de Vries is a writer, cultural worker, teacher, performer, queer cripple, genderqueer femme, fat sex worker, and devout pervert born, raised, and currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ze is founder & curator of Body of Work, founder & facilitator of Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop, a member of the Advisory Board at The Center for Sex & Culture, and a proud alumna of the St. James Infirmary, Girl Talk, Still Here San Francisco, San Francisco in Exile, and Write Here Write Now. Ze holds a Master’s in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from San Francisco State University. Ze’s performed, taught, and lectured everywhere from chapels to leatherbar backrooms to the Ivy Leagues, and hir writing has been anthologized dozens of places, from the poetic to the pornographic (recent publications include Sex Still Spoken Here, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, Take Me There, and Coming & Crying). Ze is currently at work on How To Have A Body, a book of experimental prose about the intersections of sexuality, gender, disability, and chronic illness. Find out lots more at ginadevries.com & howtohaveabody.tumblr.com

Tobi Hill-Meyer made her film making debut with Doing it Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project, winning a Feminist Porn Award for Emerging Filmmaker and being named #3 in Velvet Park Media’s list of the 25 Most Significant Queer Women in 2010. She is a multiracial trans woman with over a decade experience working with feminist and LGBTQ organizations on a local, state, and federal level, having served on several boards and offering support as a strategic consultant, currently serving on the board of the Gender Justice League. With her background in activism, she uses her media production company, Handbasket Productions, to create stories and entertainment that reflect community needs and values. Most of her work can be found at www.HandbasketProductions.com or www.DoingitOnline.com

Cinnamon Maxxine is a San Francisco bay area original Diva.They’re a queer porno personality, stripper, and all around fierce fat femme of color. They’re on a mission to confront racism, race bias, fat phobia, and the generic femme bias in sex work and porn. Cinnamon fights these issues every day and loves to educate people that these issues are real. Not just in mainstream society, but in our cherished and loved alternative/sub cultures as well.

You can find Cinnamon here:

facebook- facebook.com/cinnamaxx

twitter - @cinnamaxx

email- [email protected]

Rachel K. Zall is a writer & performing artist living in Philadelphia in a house full of cats. She has published two collections of poetry, a zine (“About My Body (Because You Always Ask)”), and a comic book (“Exiles,” with Christianne Benedict). Her short stories have appeared in various places including Tristan Taormino’s Lambda Literary Award winning collection “Take Me There.” This is her first time performing on the West Coast, and she’s very excited about that. Find out more at: http://www.radiosilent.net

#body of work #body of work 2015

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Reminder: TWO MORE Body of Work writing workshops added to our schedule! Come write with us in June!

Body of Work WRITING WORKSHOPS for JUNE! Open to all queer, trans, and non-binary folks with disabilities & chronic illnesses. Workshop facilitated by Gina de Vries at Center for Sex & Culture. Date & Time: Thursday June 4th, 5pm-7pm; Thursday June 11th, 4pm-6pm. These two classes are the last of a series of generative writing workshops for queer, trans, non-binary, and otherwise LGBTQIA folks with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Workshop participants are not obligated to write exclusively about either queerness or disability, but writing about these topics (as well as writing about other topics) will be welcomed. This is, ideally, a place where people can write about their experiences without having to censor themselves or explain every detail. We will be responding to a different body- and/or disability- related prompt/assignment every week. Drop in to one class, or come to both! Beginning writers are encouraged to attend along with more seasoned wordsmiths. The Body of Work writing workshops are for all queer, trans, non-binary, and otherwise LGBTQIA people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. We are all-genders. We define the terms “disability” and “chronic illness” broadly, to include: people with physical impairments, people who belong to a sensory minority, people with emotional disabilities, people with cognitive challenges, those with chronic/severe illness, and those with chronic pain. We ask that our non-disabled friends, lovers, partners, and allies please respect that this space is for queer cripples only. Many more details (including hella access info!) below the cut!

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Body of Work writing workshop CANCELLED today, but on next week as planned! | Buy tix for our June 16th show!

Hello darlings,

Perhaps ironically, I am needing to cripple cancel the Body of Work writing workshop (open to all queer folks with disabilities) today. However, we will be back next week – and we’ve also added some classes in June! Take a look below my signature line for more info.

Additionally, if you haven’t yet bought your tickets for our show on June 16th, please do! They are selling fast, and you want to guarantee yourself a seat. Much more about the show below my sig line, too.

<3 & hope yr all splendid,

Gina

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TWO MORE Body of Work writing workshops added to our schedule! Come write with us in May AND June!

Body of Work WRITING WORKSHOPS for May & June! Open to all queer, trans, and non-binary folks with disabilities & chronic illnesses. Workshop facilitated by Gina de Vries. Date & Time: Every Thursday in May from 5pm-7pm! (Thursday May 7, Thursday May 14, Thursday May 21 WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED, Thursday May 28.) TWO ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS have just been added for June, yay!: Thursday June 4th, 5pm-7pm; Thursday June 11th, 4pm-6pm. This is a month-long series of generative writing workshops for queer, trans, non-binary, and otherwise LGBTQIA folks with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Workshop participants are not obligated to write exclusively about either queerness or disability, but writing about these topics (as well as writing about other topics) will be welcomed. This is, ideally, a place where people can write about their experiences without having to censor themselves or explain every detail. We will be responding to a different body- and/or disability- related prompt/assignment every week. Drop in to one or two classes, or come every week for all four! Beginning writers are encouraged to attend along with more seasoned wordsmiths. The Body of Work writing workshops are for all queer, trans, non-binary, and otherwise LGBTQIA people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. We are all-genders. We define the terms “disability” and “chronic illness” broadly, to include: people with physical impairments, people who belong to a sensory minority, people with emotional disabilities, people with cognitive challenges, and those with chronic/severe illness. We ask that our non-disabled friends, lovers, partners, and allies please respect that this space is for queer cripples only. Many more details (including hella access info!) below the cut!

#body of work #body of work writing workshops

ANNOUNCING Body of Work: June 16th in the National Queer Arts Festival! Tickets NOW ON SALE!

Body of Work Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Ceremonial Room, LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street (San Francisco) 7:30pm Featuring: Neve Be, Katherine Cross, Gina de Vries, Tobi Hill-Keyer, Cinnamon Maxxine, Rachel K. Zall $12-$20 (No One Turned Away!) ASL Interpretation Provided / Wheelchair Accessible Venue / Scent-Free Policy Queer Cultural Center link: http://qcc2.org/bodyofwork/ BrownPaperTickets link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1568343 Fcbk Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/913887711995214/ Fcbk Page for the writing classes: https://www.facebook.com/events/885641311497931/ Tumblr: http://bodyofworkproductions.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Body_of_Work Body of Work is a multi-media performance show exploring queerness, sexuality, disability, chronic illness, and the question: "How do you have a body?" Seasoned disabled queer cultural workers join forces with emerging disabled queer cultural workers across multiple disciplines. This year's cast includes queer, trans, and non-binary writers, dancers, film-makers, and performance artists, whose genres and passions span from the pornographic to the academic and back again. The directive for each artist is deceptively simple: "Make art about what it means to have a body; what it means to be queer and disabled and alive in 2015." The result? Like nothing you've ever experienced before. ARTIST BIOS:

You can find Neve's work in Maximum Rock n Roll and forthcoming in various publications. You can also find their adult star alias Lyric Seal online at lyricsealsucks.tumblr.com, on modelviewculture.com, and in their column "Slumber Party" on crashpadseries.com.On Twitter: @fancylyric, instagram: @selkiesonthetide. For love/sex/body/relationship/selfhood advice email [email protected]!

Expect a book to crawl out of Neve, next spring, called Taking it Lying Down, through ThreeLmedia.

Photo Credit: Chani Bockwinkel, "Dykes with Ducks" 2014

Katherine Cross is a Ph.D student in Sociology and Magnet Presidential Fellow at the City University of New York's Graduate Centre. Her research interests centre on gender in virtual space, with a particular focus on studying the social dynamics that animate online harassment. Her academic work has appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly, Loading: The Journal of the Canadian Games Studies Association, and First Person Scholar. In addition to this, she also writes as a weekly columnist for Feministing about digital culture and serves as the site's unofficial nerd correspondent. She's covered sex, gender, and sexuality for years at publications including Questioning Transphobia, Bitch Magazine, Offworld, and RH Reality Check.

Gina de Vries is a writer, cultural worker, teacher, performer, queer cripple, genderqueer femme, fat sex worker, and devout pervert born, raised, and currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ze is founder & curator of Body of Work, founder & facilitator of Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop, a cast member of the Still Here San Francisco project, a member of the Advisory Board at The Center for Sex & Culture, and a proud alumna of the St. James Infirmary, San Francisco in Exile, and Write Here Write Now. Ze holds a Master’s in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from San Francisco State University. Ze’s performed, taught, and lectured everywhere from chapels to leatherbar backrooms to the Ivy Leagues, and hir writing has been anthologized dozens of places, from the poetic to the pornographic (recent publications include Sex Still Spoken Here, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, Take Me There, and Coming & Crying). Ze is currently at work on How To Have A Body, a book of experimental prose about the intersections of sexuality, gender, disability, and chronic illness. Find out lots more at ginadevries.com & howtohaveabody.tumblr.com

Tobi Hill-Meyer made her film making debut with Doing it Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project, winning a Feminist Porn Award for Emerging Filmmaker and being named #3 in Velvet Park Media's list of the 25 Most Significant Queer Women in 2010. She is a multiracial trans woman with over a decade experience working with feminist and LGBTQ organizations on a local, state, and federal level, having served on several boards and offering support as a strategic consultant, currently serving on the board of the Gender Justice League. With her background in activism, she uses her media production company, Handbasket Productions, to create stories and entertainment that reflect community needs and values. Most of her work can be found at www.HandbasketProductions.com or www.DoingitOnline.com

Cinnamon Maxxine is a San Francisco bay area original Diva.They're a queer porno personality, stripper, and all around fierce fat femme of color. They’re on a mission to confront racism, race bias, fat phobia, and the generic femme bias in sex work and porn. Cinnamon fights these issues every day and loves to educate people that these issues are real. Not just in mainstream society, but in our cherished and loved alternative/sub cultures as well.

You can find Cinnamon here:

facebook- facebook.com/cinnamaxx

twitter - @cinnamaxx

email- [email protected]

Rachel K. Zall is a writer & performing artist living in Philadelphia in a house full of cats. She has published two collections of poetry, a zine ("About My Body (Because You Always Ask)"), and a comic book ("Exiles," with Christianne Benedict). Her short stories have appeared in various places including Tristan Taormino's Lambda Literary Award winning collection "Take Me There." This is her first time performing on the West Coast, and she's very excited about that. Find out more at: http://www.radiosilent.net

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