Sex Workers' Art Show
The [...] Workers' Art Show is a touring cabaret and burlesque art show, developed in 1997 in Olympia, Washington by Annie Oakley. The Art Show is dedicated to confronting and breaking stereotypes related to the [...] industry. 2007 performers include authors Kirk Read and Stephen Elliott, as well as Miss Dirty Martini & Reginald M. Lamar, and Julie Atlas Muz, with Oakley as Ringmaster. The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again, bringing audiences a BLEND of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on [...] work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and [...]-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry. The show includes people from all areas of the [...] industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone [...] operators, internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways [...] workers experience their jobs and their lives. The [...] Workers' Art Show is entertaining, and it is also a vehicle for offering commentary on notions of class, race, gender, labor and sexuality by a group who has unique experiences with these dynamics.