2024 | KIM YE

Kim Ye is ProMomme on No Shame Podcast

December 1, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, No Shame presents Kim Ye in a conversation about her life and work as an artist that addresses the intersection of sex work, domestic labor, motherhood. Throughout the conversation, Kim Ye and host Rebecca Woolf discuss the relationship between dominance, and submission, caretaking and autonomy, rebellion and acquiescence—all of which […]

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Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice

November 2, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing Friday, November 15, 2025 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m 2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 Hosted by The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (CRRJ) at UC Berkeley Law, in collaboration with If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice, Movement for Family Power, and the Gender Journal, […]

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U Up?

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, September 5th, 4-5 pm, A snippet of U Up?, a multi-media VJ set by Kim Ye, is to be shown during The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group presentation of Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood over Zoom. During this piece, Kim Ye takes the viewer on a psychosexual journey via […]

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ProMomme: a sex worker’s guide to parenting

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Edition of 300 August 2024, English, 8 x 11 in, 72 pages, color, softcover ORDER FROM (and Co-published by) Sming Sming + Cash Machine What do erotic labor and child rearing have in common? How do these (normally unpaid) private practices inform one another? ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting is a poetic, honest, and practical […]

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CONTENT WARNING: Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, September 5th, 2024, The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group will conduct a studio visit and artist talk with Kim Ye titled Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood, on East Asian femininity, erotic labor, and the collision of the domestic with the apocalyptic. This virtual event will take place from […]

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The Whore Gaze: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Sunday, June 2nd, 2024, from 2-5 pm, LACE Screening Room will present THE WHORE GAZE: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty, a film project curated by Elizabeth Dayton and Kim Ye at the Philosophical Research Society at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Drawing on filmmaker PJ Starr and activist Sonyka […]

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There is No Sincerity Without Irony

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Saturday, May 11th, 2024, from 4-6 pm, the AHL Foundation Inc. will open the 2024 AHL-Chun Family Foundation Curatorial Open Call Exhibition: There Is No Sincerity Without Irony, at the AHL Foundation Gallery located at 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10030 (corner of 139th Street). The opening will feature a performance by Kyoung […]

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Where is Your Body

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“Where is Your Body” will be exhibited at SOMArts from April 25th, 2024 – May 24th, 2024. Curated by Delaney Chieyen Holton, “Where is Your Body” gathers women/trans/queer artists of API diasporic experience engaged in practices of the body to explore questions of labor, memory, and desire. “Where is Your Body”, addresses the body – […]

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Working Girls Press

January 22, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Working Girls Press, founded in 2023 by Molly B Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy, is set to release their inaugural issue, “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic, and the Divine.” The edition will be available as an ebook as well as a paperback. “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, […]

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