This is the first SF Sex Worker Films & Arts Festival since we lost Carol Leigh, but her legacy lives on and burns brightly in this year's fest. I was thrilled to attend Kaytlin Bailey's one-woman show Whore's Eye View at the New Parkway last night, and the room was packed with appreciative sex workers, sex educators, and adult film luminaries. Bailey's performance is a ribald and rambunctious romp through 10,000 years of sex worker history, interspersed with her own story. Even though the piece is still in development Bailey hit her main points about the damage patriarchy has done quite strongly indeed, and given the chance I would very happily sit through another hour or five of her hilarious takes on history and culture. Bailey closed the evening with a ritual to reclaim the power of the sacred whore, and I picked up a Carol Leigh/Scarlot Harlot votive on the way out to light at home and keep that energy going myself.
Masking? Sex workers mask because of course they do!