with Red Canary Song and collaborators | Presented in partnership with Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYUAbout this Event
Red Canary Song activates CTHQ with performances on the occasion of the premiere of The Whores Feast. Filmed over aSex worker rights organizers seize CTHQ for an evening, setting the rooms alight with performances and the debut community screening of The Whores’ Feast. Filmed during a shared dinner with organizers and collaborators, the documentary brings together Ceyenne Doroshow of G.L.I.T.S., Victoria Von Blaque of Trans Equity Consulting, Lisa of Red Canary Song, and Amalia Valentine of Decrim NY. Their conversation lingers over nourishment, labor, chosen family, honoring the collective practices of care that sustain communities through ongoing precarity.
Credits
Directed and produced by Red Canary Song’s art team, Yin Q and Chong Gu; edited by A Madden; and fed by Zacarías González. Made by and for our communities, more than 80 percent of the crew are current or former sex workers.
About the Organizers
is a grassroots organization of Asian and migrant sex and massage workers organizing transnationally through mutual aid, labor rights, migrant justice, and abolitionist frameworks.
is a Black trans-led advocacy and direct services organization advancing housing justice, healthcare access, harm reduction, and community empowerment while challenging stigma, discrimination, and criminalization.
advances LGBTQ+ equity and organizational transformation, centering trans women of color through training, organizational development, policy support, and conflict mediation.
is a coalition of sex workers, advocates, and allied lawyers working to decriminalize sex work, challenge stigma and police violence, and advance sex worker-led justice in New York.
Support
This program is made possible through the support of NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, a Mellon-supported initiative. Research and Chinese interpretation costs provided by Brown University’s Human Trafficking Research Cluster through the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Free and open to the public at CTHQ.
Entry
CTHQ is located on the 7th Floor of 59 East 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. The building entrance has no steps and elevator access is provided directly to CTHQ. Service animals are welcome.
Restrooms
One ADA accessible, all-gender restroom is located inside CTHQ.
Event venue
CTHQ, 59 East 4th Street 7th Floor, New York, United States
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