Sex on Stage Book Launch
Lynn Sally (PS PhD '04) is celebrating the publication of Sex on Stage (Bloomsbury, 2025), the first collection of writing and images by artists, activists, and scholars dedicated to the explicit performing body and stagings of sex. Enjoy a sexy book launch with readings and performances by the talented contributors on May 14th at the Slipper Room, the revolutionary “birthplace of Neo-Burlesque.”
Sex on Stage uncovers how gender and sexuality collide on stage in dynamic, dramatic, and thought-provoking ways. By taking a broad view of sex and the stage, this book tracks influences across the underground, marginalised, and the mainstream, from ‘high’ contemporary live art to the ‘low’ of entertainment. Across these mediums, the staging of sex pushes against decorums of respectability, instead flaunting the body to shock, to entertain, to tell stories, and to display a new kind of gender expression. The subjects and contributors included in this collection inhabit their bodies—in fact, demand the agency of the body—in self authored ways.
The event is free with registration.
Featuring Special Guests: Michelle L’Amour & Rose Wood
Performances and Readings by: Allie Carr, Anna Brooke, DawN Crandell, Dr. Lucky, Edan, Ella-Gabriel Mason, Joe E. Jeffreys, Julia Havard, Legs Malone, Lynn Sally, Marissa Vigneault, Miss AuroraBoobRealis
Visuals by: Julie Cook & Sarah Ainslie