Still Brazen Episode 3: "Being a Good Erotic Citizen" with Kathryn Payne and Sarah York-Bertram Still Brazen: Twenty Years of Queering Femininity

Still Brazen Episode 3: “Being a Good Erotic Citizen": Kathryn Payne and Sarah York-Bertram in Conversation about Sex Worker-Femme Solidarities and Sex Work Activism in Canada

In this episode, Kathryn Payne and Sarah York-Bertram revisit Payne's piece in Brazen Femme titled "Whores and Bitches Who Sleep With Women." They discuss: femme culture in the '90s and early aughts as it intersected with sex work and kink cultures and communities; sex work activism and histories in Canada; and making sex work visible within educational institutions.

Check out the transcript here: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-content/uploads/sites/255/2021/09/Still-Brazen-Podcast-Transcript-Episode-3.pdf

Corrections: The history of sex workers and lace curtains is from Edmonton/Treaty 6 territory (not Calgary/Treaty 4). Check out more about the story here: http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/EDB/1914/07/22/7/Ar00702.html?query=newspapers%7Clace%7C%28date%3A1914%2F07%2F22%29+AND+%28publication%3AEDB%29%7Cscore

Links:

Sarah York-Bertram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-york-bertram-92b4a3213/?originalSubdomain=ca

Longing At least is Constant, by Kathryn Payne: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Longing_at_Least_Is_Constant.html?id=ds9L0ZQysVwC&redir_esc=y

Joan Nestle: https://www.joannestle.com/

Becki Ross: https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/becki-ross/

Carol Leigh: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/us/carol-leigh-dead.html

Feminist Porn Awards (Toronto): https://www.feministpornawards.com/

Toronto Women's Bathhouse Raid: https://arquives.ca/latest-news/the-pussy-palace-raid-a-brief-herstory

Spread ($pread) Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$pread

Rethinking Class in Lesbian Bar Culture, by Elise Chenier: https://prezi.com/4iprsaeq_ajm/rethinking-class-in-lesbian-bar-culture/

Pioneer Ladies [of the Evening], by Laurie Bertram: https://platformgallery.org/exhibition/pioneer-ladies-of-the-evening/

Cindy Gladue: https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/cindy-gladue

Stormy Daniels: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43334326

Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network: https://www.butterflysw.org/

Maggie's (Toronto): https://www.maggiesto.org/

Stella (Montreal): https://chezstella.org/en/home/

On the Bedford case: https://equitableeducation.ca/2013/bedford-decriminalization-sex-work

On the 'Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act'
(PCEPA): https://globalnews.ca/news/6073593/canadas-sex-worker-laws-bill-c36/

On the ongoing challenges to PCEPA (2022): https://ricochet.media/en/3891/canadian-sex-workers-challenging-the-law-in-court-this-week

 

Podcast Credits:

Created and produced by: Dr. Andi Schwartz

Recorded by: Dr. Andi Schwartz and Michael Fong

Edited by: Dr. Andi Schwartz, Rafia Naz, Maykel Shehata, Michael Fong, and Alan Peng

Music by: Dr. Andi Schwartz and Michael Fong

Supported by: The Centre for Feminist Research and the Media Creation Lab at York University Sponsored by: The Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies (York); The Sexuality Studies Program (York); The School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (York); The Institute for Research in Digital Literacies (York); The Digital Scholarship Centre at the Scott Library (York); and the Joint Program in Communication and Cultural Studies (York & TMU)