Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts From An Unrepentant Whore: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Mirha-Soleil Ross, POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau, Work, Educate, Resist) and FSIS (Families of Sisters and Spirit)
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
6:30pm
251 Bank Street, 2nd Floor
As the Bedford Case moves through the Supreme Court of Canada, discussion about sex workers’ rights and struggles have become more mainstream, with sex worker led organizations taking the lead in the fight for decriminalization. This struggle has led many to question pre-existing assumptions about sex work and sex workers, and has also led to important conversations about stigma, workers rights, feminsim, and sex work.
Join us on July 24 as we continue this conversation by screening “Yapping Out Loud! Contagious Thoughts From An Unrepentant Whore” with Director Mirha-Soleil Ross, POWER, and FSIS in attendance for discussion after the film.
Yapping Out Loud” is a video documentary based on first-person Toronto performance show (7 monologues) dealing with prostitution and anti-prostitution. A tour de force by Canada’s most famous transsexual sexworker animal-rights activist performance artist, Yapping is hilarious and moving –half autobiographical, half agitprop satire, fully unforgettable.
Mirha-Soleil Ross is a transsexual videomaker, performer, sex worker and animal rights activist.
This event will be pay what you can (no one will be turned away)
Co-organizers:
Families of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS)
Octopus Books
Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau, Work, Educate, Resist (POWER)
Families of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS) is a grassroots, all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization led by families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls with support from Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies and friends. Located on unceded Algonquin territory in Ottawa, FSIS was created in January 2011 in response to the federal government’s defunding of Sisters in Spirit — FSIS is committed to extensive public education, media and social media engagement, fundraising, and especially capacity and relationship-building with/among Indigenous families of missing and murdered women and girls. FSIS believes in facilitating safe(r) spaces for families to share, grieve and strategize together, privately and publicly. FSIS follows anti-oppressive, anti-colonial and Indigenous feminist frameworks that root our work in radical relationships with the land, one another, our ancestors and future descendents.
POWER is a sex worker led organization in Ottawa that works for the human and labour rights of sex workers. POWER envisions a society in which sex work is valued as legitimate work and sex workers can practice their profession free of harassment, discrimination, and violence.
