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Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

May 15, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On May 29th, 2025, a rough cut of The Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting will be screened as part of the 8th day of programming at the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival. The festival brings together filmmakers, artists, activists, and community members to spotlight the diverse and complex lives of […]

Categories: 2025, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: Angelica Ross, Bambi Lake, California Arts Council, Cinnamon Maxxine, Community Partners, Creative Corps, Daisy Ducati, Kim Ye, Miss Honey Pink, Rachel Wotton, San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

6 Sex Worker Books for your Reading List

May 14, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On May 13th, 2025, Kim Ye’s publication ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting was featured in Tryst’s curated list of essential sex worker-authored books. The article, titled “6 Sex Worker Books for Your Reading List,” celebrates recent literary contributions by sex workers that challenge stigma and center lived experience. ProMomme is an anthology curated […]

Categories: 2025, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: California Arts Council, Ceyenne Doroshow, Community Partners, Creative Corps, Emi Koyama, Juno Mac, Karma Chávez, Kim Ye, Kitty Stryker, Molly Smith, Tryst

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 […]

Categories: 2024, collaboration, EVERYTHING, publication, things, work • Tags: California Arts Council, Carmen of Angeles, Cash Machine, Emme Witt-Edenn, Frenchie, GabyG., Honey De Vil, Julia SH, Kim Ye, Lorde Destroyer, Lucy Khan, Mari V, Maxine Holloway, Piggy Lu, Princess Marx, Sming Sming Books, SWOPLA, Yin Q

Fellowship: California Arts Council Creative Corps

August 17, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Kim Ye has been selected to receive a year-long California Arts Council’s CA Creative Corps Fellowship. Kim Ye engages in a multi-disciplinary, research-based practice that engages gendered constructions around power, and the entanglement between public space and private desire. Through their Fellowship, Kim Ye will work with SWOPLA to address social justice and community engagement […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: CA Creative Corps Artist, California Arts Council, California Healthy Places Index, Community Partners, Culture Bearer Fellowship, Fellowship, Los Angeles, Orange County

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Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

6 Sex Worker Books for your Reading List

ProMomme: a sex worker’s guide to parenting

Fellowship: California Arts Council Creative Corps