HELLA CLOSE: Stories of Intimacy by Sex Workers

HELLA CLOSE IS BACK by popular demand!!!

Join RADAR Productions on our signature series, Hella Close, part of our year-long Queering the Castro program!

Curated and Hosted by Cyd Nova
Featuring

Aria Sa’id
Aria Sa’id is the writer of Trans Sex In The City, a concept blog of her essays and story telling of the experiences of cosmopolitan TS girls who weren’t invited to fish slumber parties. She resides in Oakland, and in her spare time she browses style blogs; enjoys people watching, habesha history, listening to D’Angelo and Aaliyah, run on sentences and intentionally bad punctuation, drinking americanos and chain smoking, memorizing James Baldwin and Picasso quotes on the steps in Union Square.

Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
Lyric Seal aka Neve Be is a mouthy, queer, multigender femme, disabled black punk alter-disciplinary erotic artist and sex worker writing, talking, singing, dancing, touching (hearts, themselves, consenting creatures), and creating subversive, disability justice centered queer eruptions and home in Oakland and Seattle. They are a Staff Writer at HARLOT Magazine (harlot.media), a columnist at maximumrocknroll, a member of disability justice movement builder and performance project Sins Invalid (www.sinsinvalid.org), co-founder/co-facilitator of The Blueberry Jam, a group and contact improvisational dance lab for queers and all genders of people dancing against misogyny, and the voice behind the advice column SLUMBER PARTY which can be found on crashpadseries.com. You can be nice to them on Twitter and Instagram @littlebeasthood and you can find more of their work at littlebeasthood.tumblr.com. They are available for worship, workshops, performances, porn, and friend dates to punk shows.

Natalia García
Natalia García was born and raised in San Francisco Califaztlán. She reads from Sad Criolla Girl, her in progress writings on her grandparents birthplace of Al Andalusia where she lives for several years of her life. Ella dedica suss escrituras a las que como ella no son ni de aquí, ni de allá.

Titiana Kumeh
T. Kumeh is a Black queer art model, a performance artist, a writer, and a ho-slash-professional lover. She fronts a punk rock band called Ugly, a woman of color project that debuts May 2016. She has a BFA from San Francisco State University and a Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley. She hated grad school, and her first reading was about that. In the past she’s written about communities of color, education, health, and sex worker rights for publications such as the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and Mother Jones. Now she’s more interested in writing for and about herself. She’s performed at SomArts Cultural Center, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Lab, Interface Gallery, and with the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. She regularly poses for artists in studios and schools around the Bay Area.