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Welcome! Stories and excerpts from a sacred library, together we can explore rare texts and ancient tales, words of wisdom and stories of all kinds. Sacred Academia 🌕🙏✨ So mote it be.
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Welcome to Red Light Reader, a monthly book club and podcast hosted at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC. It was created as a platform to facilitate dialogue about sex worker rights and its intersections with technology, race, migration, labor, LGBTQ, and women's rights. We release new episodes each month featuring our interviews with authors, academics, and activists.
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Sacred Stories: The Song of Bhishma
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Get comfy and grab a cuppa for this episode of The Light Reader; a Sacred Stories session. This is an excerpt from the modern retelling of the Mahabharata by Carole Satyamurti.
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My library holds many rare and forgotten texts, words from the wise to those who care to listen....
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Episode 1: "Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work" by Melissa Gira Grant
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Melissa, the first guest for our book club, reads from her still-very-relevant book, touching on the implications of banning sex workers from social media, police violence, and what it means to have sex work become an electoral issue. Hosted at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC Want to help incarcerated sex workers? Please donate to SWOP Behind Bars A…
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Introductions: Who is Red Light Reader?
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Thank you for tuning into our first episode! Listen along as we share our individual histories and discuss how our favorite texts have shaped our perspectives. We touch on topics of the criminalization of sex workers and migrants, labor exploitation under capitalism, the relationships between US imperialism and the "rescue industry," and so many mo…
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Maya discusses the story behind the Anti-trafficking Panel
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Recently, two members of our book club - Maya Morena & Kate Zen (representing Red Canary) participated in a trafficking & migration panel (with Aya Tasaki Policy Director of WomanKind) speaking to the Peace & Social Action Committee (PSAC). Originally this event was supposed to be a round-table discussion between various diverse groups with widely …
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