Jun
20
7:00 PM19:00
Alice at Book Soup in Los Angeles!
Join the editors of Alice in Los Angeles for a discussion and book signing at Book Soup!
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Mar
17
7:00 PM19:00
Alice at Bluestockings NYC
Join Ivy and Devon for a reading and discussion about Alice at this phenomenal bookstore in NYC.
Mar
15
7:30 PM19:30
Alice Red Emma's in Baltimore
Join Ivy and Devon in Baltimore for a reading and discussion of Alice!
Mar
8
to Mar 10
Lewis and Clark College Gender Studies Symposium
Join authors Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon for a discussion of sex work, gender, labor, and activism as a part of their 3 day Gender Studies Symposium.
March 10, 2017
9:30–11 a.m., Stamm
Empowerment, Defiance, and Identity
Moderator: Jessie Starling, L&C assistant professor of religious studies
Priscilla Wu, Reed College ’17, “Language, Myth, and Feminist Chinese American Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior”
Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus, “‘A Voice from the Underworld’: Sex Worker Activism in the West, 1911-1917”
Erin Keoppen, L&C ’17, “Wild Words: Space, Place and Gender in Tamil Feminist Poetry”
Maggie O’Leary, MA student in English, Portland State University, “‘A Position of Tragic Dignity’: The Colonial Conflict of the Armagh Women’s ‘Dirty Protest’of a panel on Empowerment, Defiance, and Identity
For more information about the conference, visit: http://college.lclark.edu/departments/gender_studies/symposium/
Oct
27
6:00 PM18:00
Book Release Party at the California Historical Society
Join Ivy Anderson, Devon Angus, and representatives from the Erotic Service Providers Union at the California Historical Society offices in San Francisco to celebrate the release of Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute. An hour long presentation on Alice Smith, the history of prostitution and sex worker's rights movements in San Francisco will be followed by an hour long Q & A session with the authors and SWOP representatives.
Light refreshments will be served, and original archival materials relating to the history of prostitution in California will be on display.
$5-10. You can purchase tickets through Eventbrite by clicking here.