KINK OUT: LEATHER LIT DAY
As an extension of Kink Out’s residency at MoMA PS1, which will culminate with Kink Out: SPACES on February 9, LEATHER LIT DAY brings together kink and sex working people and allies for a day of storytelling, zine making, and community building. RSVP for reminders below!
PROGRAM
2–5pm
Zine making, facilitated by Niko Flux
Letter writing to incarcerated sex workers, facilitated by Red
3-5pm
Storytelling open mic, hosted by Ashley Paige
ZINE MAKING
Zines are both whimsical and powerful tools in queer and sex worker communities. Inherently anti-establishment, these DIY magazines circulate to connect communities with art, literature, news, health and safety information, and activism. Queer leather zines like FIST (fistzine.com) and TOKEN (from 1998), have shared the identities of sadomasochists, pups, and punks, and the poetry that brews from blood, piss, queer bodies, and bondage. A selection of these zines, curated by Red, are available in Artbook for perusal and purchase.
LETTER WRITING
By writing a letter of support to an incarcerated sex worker, we can let community members know they are not forgotten. Writers are asked to keep letters positive, not to out people as sex workers, and set realizable expectations. Additional information and guidelines provided by the Support Ho(s)e Collective can be found at the letter-writing station.
STORYTELLING
Storytellers can sign up on the day and are encouraged to respond to the prompt, “My leather or sex worker origin story.”
YOUR GUIDES
Bookstore Zine Curation & Letter Writing -- Red
Red is a lecturer, curator, community organizer, and underemployed sex working art historian. They make zines that center sex worker organizing, activist oriented political education, prison/police abolition and incarcerated comrades’ stories.
Zine Making -- Niko Flux
Niko Flux is a sex worker by day, artist by night. She is the co-creator of the art show Blood Money and the upcoming Money for Real.
Storytelling MC -- Ashley Paige
Ashley Paige is a Professional Dominatrix, Licensed Massage Therapist, Queer Fetish Porn performer, and Sex Worker Advocate based in NYC. She’s engaged professionally in pleasure and perversion for over a decade, specializing in the art of catharsis created by her extensive understanding of visceral connection through healing touch, holistic wellness, BDSM, Fetish play, and authentic companionship.
ABOUT KINK OUT
Kink Out produces empowering events that bring people of intersectional identities with lived experience in BDSM culture together to share art, activism, work, and respectful conversation. Follow: @kinkoutevents