Danzine
Danzine was a Portland, Oregon-based harm reduction, outreach, and education organization for and by sex workers.
Organization
[edit]In 1994, "Theresa Dulce" and "Mona Superhero", were touring the United States working at strip clubs when their car broke down outside Portland, Oregon. They stayed.[1][2] Superhero, an artist who was part of a zinester network, suggested that they start a zine for dancers, called Danzine. Danzine grew from a monthly resource and information list into a zine edited by Dulce,[3] while Danzine the organization expanded to offer needle exchange, a drop-in center and clothing store, and to doing public advocacy and organizing against political repression of sex workers.[4] [5]
Dulce and Marne Lucas co-curated Portland's Sex by Sex Worker Film and Video Festival.[6]
Legacy and aftermath
[edit]In June 2005, Dulce and Lucas co-curated the "Danzine Retrospective" exhibit within At the Mercy of Others: the Politics of Care, an exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. The exhibit replicated part of Danzine's offices—its "Switzerland" safe space—, and contained issues of Danzine, artworks by contributors, and video installations.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ Koster, Katherine (2015-10-01). "Working It: The Activist Art Magazine Fueling Labor Rights for Strippers and Other Sex Workers". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
- ^ Pahlaniuk, Chuck (2017). "Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland". In Trombold, John; Donahue, Peter (eds.). Reading Portland: The City in Prose. University of Washington Press. pp. 508–11. ISBN 9780295997605.
- ^ Schmidt, Linda (October 31, 1999). "Periodical Notes: New and Newly Discovered Periodicals". Feminist Collections. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
- ^ Newell, Cliff (May 13, 2009). "Artist-activist knows much about marked women". Portland Tribune. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
- ^ "Oregon: Sex Workers' Advocacy Service Closes". The Body. May 28, 2003. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ Drake, Monica. "SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SEX WORKER". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2018-06-29.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Velasco, David. "PORT: portlandart.net - Portland art + news + reviews". www.portlandart.net. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ Archibald, Sasha; Lookofsky, Sarah; Marquina, Cira Pascual; Sorokina, Elena (2005), At the mercy of others: the politics of care, Whitney Museum of American Art, pp. 3, 44, ISBN 0874271452