International Whores Day started as a protest against the police state, and the protest continues in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
Join a live conversation and Q&A around artmaking as resistance, mutual aid, and “whorestories” of zine-making with Red Schulte, curator of the The International Whores’ Day Zine and co-organizer of the International Whores Day NYC 2020 Digital Rally, and zine contributors JB Brager, Mistress Velvet, Ariel Wolf, and Empress Wu.
Commemorating the 45th International Whores Day (IWD), an event that began in Lyon, France in 1975, the International Whores’ Day Zine contains information and art from over 15 sex worker rights activist artists, conveying sex workers’ struggles against racist, anti-immigrant, classist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic conditions. The International Whores’ Day Zine honors the resilience of New York City’s sex working communities who continuously care for and provide mutual aid to one another, and celebrates contemporary sex worker artmaking and resistance, as we're witnessing in real time through the work of protesters around the United States actively confronting state violence against Black people.
Download the free International Whores’ Day Zine from the International Whores’ Day website, presented alongside a live digital rally on June 2nd from 12 to 2 p.m. EDT.
The International Whores’ Day Zine is compiled and edited by Red Schulte and Jett George, with support from MoMA PS1. Contributors include AP, Jett George, Blunt, JB Brager, Emily Coombes, Daniella, Melissa Gira Grant, Paul Glover, Emily Iris, Lorelei Lee, Niko, Leila Raven, Audrey Ryan, Red Schulte, Caty Simon, squiggles.and.sluts, Jacq the Stripper, Mistress Velvet, Alisha Walker, and Ariel Wolf.
From the International Whores’ Day Zine contributors: “This zine is a creative call to action, a recommitment to hope and collective strength in ongoing uncertain times. For those of us contributing, we’ve known and called out existing pandemics running rampant, destroying lives: capitalism, racism, the prison industrial complex, whorephobia, transphobia, the U.S. war machine, and environmental attacks, and now we’re drawing upon our existing mutual aid networks to once again build community care and safety. We share whorestory and art to ready our hearts for our continued struggle.”
Questions? Please submit your questions via direct message on social media to MoMA PS1 (@momaps1) or IWD NYC (@iwdnyc). Keep the conversation going online using the hashtag #IWDzine.
Support the IWD NYC 2020 organizers, speakers, and zine contributors by making a contribution.
Organized in collaboration with the IWD NYC 2020 Coalition and Kink Out.
