UNVL: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance
January 23 @ 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
UNLV Special Collections and Archives and the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies invite聽you to attend Erotic Labor in the 21st Century:聽Power, Pleasure, and Resistance, the second annual聽聽collection event聽exploring sex work, representation, and activism featuring authors from the new book,聽Sex Work Today,聽and a special performance of聽Whore鈥檚 Eye View聽by Kaytlin Bailey.聽This gathering highlights the lives, histories, and agency of those in the erotic economy, opening space for fresh conversations about labor, identity, and justice.
Schedule
Erotic Labor in the 21st Century: Power, Pleasure, and Resistance
Panel 1聽鈥� Power and Resistance in Erotic Labor, 1:00 p.m.
Location:聽Beverly Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101, UNLV
- Taking Our Words Right Out of Our Mouths: The Appropriation of Sex Worker-Rights Language, Crystal Jackson, Arizona State University
- Not a Client, Not a Sex Worker: Dismantling the 鈥淧imp鈥� Stereotype, Stacey Hannem, Wilfrid Laurier University
- *鈥淏eat Em At Their Game鈥�: The Strategic Deployment of 鈥淰ictimhood鈥� as Resistance, Lillian Taylor Jungleib, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- *鈥淭he Police Don鈥檛 Protect Us!鈥�: Why Sex Workers Don鈥檛 Trust the Police, Kaytlin Bailey, Founder & Executive Director Old Pros Network
- Disability at the Revolving Door: Perspectives on Mental Illness and Predatory Policing, Summer Lopez Colorado, University of California, Los Angeles
Panel 2: Bodies, Pleasure, and Representation 鈥� 3:00 p.m.
Location:聽Beverly Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101, UNLV
- The Big Beautiful Women Awards: Fat Latinas in the Porn Industry, Yessica Hernandez, UCLA
- Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction Among Professional Dominatrixes, Tania Levey, City University of New York.
- Gifts of Desire: The Erotics of Gift Exchange and Sex Worker Mutual Aid, Kassandra Sparks, Univ of California, Berkeley and Lena Chen, University of California, Berkeley
- Pornography With Heart: The Holistic Potential of Feminist Porn, Inka Winter, erotic filmmaker and founder of ForPlay Films
Reception聽鈥� 6:00 p.m.
Location:聽Goldfield Room, Lied Library, UNLV
Whore鈥檚 Eye View, Goldfield Room, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Kaytlin Bailey, Founder & Executive Director Old Pros Network
50 minute show with 30 minute Q&A
Whore鈥檚 Eye View is a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex workers鈥� perspective.聽Equal parts history lesson, stand-up comedy, and personal storytelling, Kaytlin Bailey masterfully unpacks the age-old stigma underpinning the oldest profession, and a status quo designed to keep women in their place. Kaytlin鈥檚 eye-opening message is a compassionate, clarion call, a crash course in history, and a game changing roadmap for progress that can be sustained once and for all.
Campus Partners
UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives聽 |聽 UNLV College of Liberal Arts
Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender & Ethnic Studies | Department of Sociology
Department of History聽|聽Reid Public History Institute | Department of English