BRS LIVE presents

Live streaming Friday, July 31 @ 8:00 PM

SEX PANIC AND THE PANDEMIC

WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY TWANNA A. HINES

Supporting Tuskegee University

SEX PANIC AND THE PANDEMIC is a one-woman, sex storytelling performance by award-winning sexual health educator Twanna A. Hines. She takes online audiences on a journey through U.S. history to highlight striking similarities in health inequities that occurred during the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, HIV/AIDS epidemic, and COVID-19. Twanna delivers hope, humor, and sex advice to help us survive the current global pandemic as we must — together.

“It was important to me that I write and perform this show in Washington, D.C.,” says Hines. “Although it happened in Alabama, it was a DC newspaper that broke the story about The Tuskegee Experiment. Throughout history, we’ve seen how sexism, racism, and homophobia have produced negative health outcomes. This is the right city and the right time to talk about building love, trust, respect, and racial healing.”

Hosted by Drew Anderson, co-writer/performer of Keegan and Keegan PLAY-RAH-KA’s Helen Hayes Award-nominated hit, From Gumbo to Mumbo.

Learn more at www.keegantheatre.com

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* Driven by an aim to turn art into action, BRS LIVE will donate half of all live stream ticket sales and donations to organizations selected by the featured artist.

For SEX PANIC AND THE PANDEMIC, Twanna A. Hines has selected Tuskegee University to support. Her grandmother attended the university, and the donation from this event will be made in her honor.

Tuskegee University is “a private, historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was established by Lewis Adams and Booker T. Washington. The campus is designated as the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site by the National Park Service. The university was home to scientist George Washington Carver and to World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.” https://www.tuskegee.edu

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Twanna A. Hines, M.S. (she/her/femme) is an award-winning sexual health educator, healthy relationships advocate, and entrepreneur. She specializes in social impact entertainment. A Sundance Creative Change alum, she has written for many magazines and news outlets, including NBC News, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Time Out, Mashable, Fast Company and The Huffington Post. She has been interviewed by outlets from coast to coast, from the San Francisco Chronicle to The New York Times. Founder and CEO of the creative enterprise FUNKY BROWN CHICK, she has appeared on CNN, NPR, Sirius, CBC, Paris Première, and in documentary films.

Committed to reducing violence and increasing security, she is a member of the Truman National Security Project.