The Wh☆re Singularity Student Showcase
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The Wh☆re Singularity asks: if everyone is naked on the internet, is no one naked on the internet?
Come celebrate the conclusion of a 10 week study of p☆rnographic pasts, surveilled digital states, and cyberspace futures.
Through a collective examination of community research reports, social media cultural criticism, sci-fi films, and s$x worker art, students have deepened one another’s understanding of digital wh☆re struggle including shadowbanning, the broligarchy, femmebot heartbreak, and much more.
Now, join us for a showcase of our Wh☆retopias. Using performance, installation, visual media, and language, we’ll collectively imagine cybers$x futures in the interest of liberation for all. Because to paraphrase José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: “Wh☆reness is not yet here.”
More on the class here: https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-26/whore-singularity
CONSIDER DONATING:
Please consider making a donation to SWOP Minneapolis: https://www.swopmpls.com/donate
When you donate to SWOP Minneapolis, you are supporting s$x worker-led work that meets real needs in real time. We are a s$x worker-led nonprofit serving s$x workers in Minneapolis and across Minnesota through community based, harm reduction focused support.
TEACHER BIOS:
Tina Horn is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink — a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast of the same name — and the sci-fi comic book series Safe Sex (SfSx). Her journalism on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the Wondery podcast Operator, and in anthologies such as We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she coedited. Tina is known for the theatrical sensibility she brings to her BDSM workshops in feminist sex boutiques, university lectures on sex worker rights, as an emcee at kinky art shows, a panelist and moderator at writing conferences, and commentator in the media. Her work explores the narrative shapes of pervert experiences and the pornographic potential of pop culture. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence in Creative Nonfiction Writing, and is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, and the recipient of two Feminist P☆rn Awards.
Jaye Elizabeth Elijah is a poet, editor, facilitator, and professional pleasure seeker based in the high desert of New Mexico. Their work weaves eroticism, death, and ritual through language, study, and care work. Their words and images have appeared in beestung, Journal Safar, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series.
Venue:
3305 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, USA
https://www.cashmachine.la/
Cash Machine is an artist-run small editions press in Atwater Village.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The Wh☆re Singularity asks: if everyone is naked on the internet, is no one naked on the internet?
Come celebrate the conclusion of a 10 week study of p☆rnographic pasts, surveilled digital states, and cyberspace futures.
Through a collective examination of community research reports, social media cultural criticism, sci-fi films, and s$x worker art, students have deepened one another’s understanding of digital wh☆re struggle including shadowbanning, the broligarchy, femmebot heartbreak, and much more.
Now, join us for a showcase of our Wh☆retopias. Using performance, installation, visual media, and language, we’ll collectively imagine cybers$x futures in the interest of liberation for all. Because to paraphrase José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: “Wh☆reness is not yet here.”
More on the class here: https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-26/whore-singularity
CONSIDER DONATING:
Please consider making a donation to SWOP Minneapolis: https://www.swopmpls.com/donate
When you donate to SWOP Minneapolis, you are supporting s$x worker-led work that meets real needs in real time. We are a s$x worker-led nonprofit serving s$x workers in Minneapolis and across Minnesota through community based, harm reduction focused support.
TEACHER BIOS:
Tina Horn is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink — a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast of the same name — and the sci-fi comic book series Safe Sex (SfSx). Her journalism on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the Wondery podcast Operator, and in anthologies such as We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she coedited. Tina is known for the theatrical sensibility she brings to her BDSM workshops in feminist sex boutiques, university lectures on sex worker rights, as an emcee at kinky art shows, a panelist and moderator at writing conferences, and commentator in the media. Her work explores the narrative shapes of pervert experiences and the pornographic potential of pop culture. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence in Creative Nonfiction Writing, and is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, and the recipient of two Feminist P☆rn Awards.
Jaye Elizabeth Elijah is a poet, editor, facilitator, and professional pleasure seeker based in the high desert of New Mexico. Their work weaves eroticism, death, and ritual through language, study, and care work. Their words and images have appeared in beestung, Journal Safar, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series.
Venue:
3305 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, USA
https://www.cashmachine.la/
Cash Machine is an artist-run small editions press in Atwater Village.
