(Photo: Daniel Seiffert)
Over the last ten years, I've given numerous talks and lectures, at New York University, the New School for Social Reseach, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, the International AIDS Conference, UC-Berkeley Labor Center, University of San Francisco, Hampshire College, and San Francisco State University.
I've spoken on sex and technology at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW), re:publica (Berlin), NeXT (Copenhagen), the Center for Sex and Culture, Sex 2.0, sex::tech, and BlogHer.
I've performed at Eyebeam, the National Queer Arts Festival, and the Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, and at the storytelling series In the Flesh, Sex Worker Literati, and the Red Umbrella Diaries.
RECENT TALKS
- "Sex & the Internet," re:publica, Berlin, April 2010 (video)
- "Feminism and the Rights of People Involved in Sex Work and Street Economies" (panelist), Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Hampshire College, April 2010 (Feministing post)
- "Sex Work & Human Rights: Feminist Advocacy Strategies" (moderator), Paradigm Shift NY, February 2010 (video part 1, video part 2)
- "On the Edge: Reducing Stigma through Social Networking" (panelist), sex::tech, San Francisco, February 2010
- "Revisting Naked on the Internet" (panelist), "Craigslist Red, Craigslist Blue: Why we should dismantle the 'internet red light district'," & Keynote talk (video), Sex 2.0, Washington DC, May 2009
- "Sex Lives of the Microfamous," South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, March 2009 (New York Times coverage; Nerve liveblog)
READINGS, ETC.
- Coming & Crying reading & talk, McNally Jackson, New York, December 2010
- Coming & Crying: in person, a live collaboration with Nikola Tamindzic, featuring Meaghan O'Connell, Halle Kiefer, William Ball, and Tao Lin, The Black Apartment, New York, June 2010
- Dear Internet, private diary readings in public places, New York, October-December 2009
- "The Secret Diary of Melissa Grant," Sex Worker Literati, New York, August 2009 (video)
- True Sex Confessions at In the Flesh, New York, July 2009 (video)
- REBEL GIRL: a riot grrl nostalgia show, National Queer Arts Festival, June 2009
UPCOMING
IN PERSON
- "The End of Shame," South by Southwest, Austin, March 2011
- Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival, New York, February 2011
- TOLD, New York, January 2011
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