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This film emerges from years of SWer-led organizing and research by the @swopla Sex Workers Outreach Project, Los Angeles community–who will be tabling at the @swguidetoparenting viewing party and ProMomme Vol. 2 magazine launch on Thursday, July 23rd! Join us there IRL to see how SWer’s are transforming society for the better, and how you can get involved.

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The 7/23 community presentation extends the Radical Kinship exhibition at @feministcenterforcreativework into the theater with a viewing party of The Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting—the film featured in my installation, It’s not a whore house, it’s a whore home.

After the film, there will be a panel discussion guided by Radical Kinship curator Chloë Flores @sea_flow featuring:

Lotus Lain @icy.lotus
Globally recognized public figure in the realms of consent, sex worker’s rights, self advocacy & intimacy. Throughout her 12+ year career she’s been a Dominatrix; Hall of Fame Adult Performer; a Published Writer, Guest Speaker, Producer and now Intimacy Coordinator for Mainstream TV and Film. She has recently spoken at the UN in Geneva and New York to inform the Human Rights Committee of the US Government’s failures to prevent trafficking and discrimination against people of LGBTQ identity, and is featured in @swguidetoparenting

Lauren Levitt (all pronouns)
Postdoctoral researcher at the XCITE Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of California Riverside. Lauren is on the editorial board of The Journal of Femininities and the advisory board of the Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles @swopla and regularly acts as a sex worker advocate at public and academic events and in the media.

Kimberly Ye (me!)
Artist whose interdisciplinary research-based practice produces films, performances, writings, and installations emerging from communities in which members’ lives are routinely misrepresented. Ye uses humor, autofiction, and pop cultural aesthetics to translate marginalized experiences into mainstream visual language. Writings at @lady_scumbag

Thursday, July 23. Link in bio. by @swguidetoparenting

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Join us for The Sex Worker's Guide to Parenting & ProMomme Vol 2. Launch Event on 7/23–a free community presentation hosted by @feministcenterforcreativework

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📅 Thursday, July 23
🕖 6:00pm - 9:00pm

This evening is organized around a viewing party of the @swguidetoparenting film, which responds to familiar narratives about sex work as a threat to “family values” by dropping us into the lives of 6 parents in the sex industry and the making of ProMomme, a parenting magazine created by the LA-based sex workers of @swopla. Written and directed by Kim Ye @kimyekimyekimye, the viewing will be followed by a discussion with the artist, Lauren Levitt, and Lotus Lain.

The night closes with a reception that celebrates the launch of ProMomme Vol.2, giving you the first look at the just released issue published by @cashmachinela and @smingsmingbooks. Sex Workers Outreach Project, Los Angeles @SWOPLA will be tabling, offering community resources, sharing opportunities to get involved, and selling the last remaining editions of the ProMomme Authorized Bootleg and Limited Edition T-shirts, both designed by Sophia Coleman @mailordermilf.

This event is an extension of Kim Ye's work, It’s not a whore house, it’s a whore home featuring The Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting currently on view as part of Radical Kinship exhibition at FCCW, curated by Chloë Flores @sea_flow. You’re also invited to join us for a walk-through of this exhibition at 2PM at with Kim Ye and Chloë Flores.

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From The Sex Worker's Guide to Parenting. Screening soon in Los Angeles — details this week.

#swguidetoparenting #documentaryfilm #sexworkerrights by @swguidetoparenting

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In The Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting, six parents in the sex industry reflect on how erotic labor shapes the ways they care for children, build community, and navigate stigma. Moving between intimate interviews, animated reenactments, and collective research, the film follows the making of a parenting magazine by and for sex workers, and the impact this work has on society at large. This documentary overturns familiar narratives about sex work as a threat to “family values,” recasting its skills as ones that support intentional parenting.

Currently on view at the Feminist Center for Creative Work as a single-channel installation staged as a retro living-room setting. The installation includes personal objects loaned by parents in the film, and Promomme Vol. 1, the sex worker parenting magazine depicted in the documentary.

Immerse yourself in these domestic vibes at the Radical Kinship show curated by @sea_flow before next week’s announcement about how you can see it on a big screen in LA. More details to follow…

Promomme Vol. 1 was co-published by Sming Sming @smingsmingbooks + Cash Machine @cashmachinela + SWOPLA @swopla, and designed by Sophia Coleman @mailordermilf in 2024.

Loaned objects from @lordedestroyer include art by Elly Dallas @tenderspeck, Maia Kobe and legos assembled by his son by @swguidetoparenting

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