from S.W.A.M. (Sex Workers Adressing Mackinnon)

SEX WORKER POLITICS

*** OUTLAW POVERTY, NOT PROSTITUTES

Documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco. Prostitutes and activists from around the globe discuss human rights as they effect prostitutes. VISIONS OF U.S., AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE award winner , FILM ARTS FESTIVAL (San Francisco), INTL. WOMEN'S DAY VIDEO FESTIVAL, DEEP DISH SATELLITE, at DC-TV's WHAM, & both the CHICAGO & SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN & GAY INTL. FILM FESTIVALS . (20 min.-1992)

** SEX WORKERS TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

Scarlot Harlot attends San Francisco's Take Back the Night (December 1990), a march in remembrance of the fourteen female college students murdered in the previous year's Montreal Massacre. Clashes and controversy emerge between sex-workers and anti-porn feminists about sex, violence and men- with an emphasis on the perspectives of strippers and sexual rights activists. An excellent feminist discussion piece. W.O.W. Cafe (N.Y., N.Y.) VIDEO WITNESSES FESTIVAL OF NEW JOURNALISM (HALLWALLS, Buffalo, N.Y.), LOS ANGELES LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL (28 min.- 1991)

***MASTURBATION MEMOIRS, VOL I & VOL II

Scarlot Harlot and House O' Chicks-Dorrie Lane (30 minutes). Starring (Vol. I) Scarlot, Dorrie, Guadeloupe San Francisco and (Vol. II) Annie Sprinkle, Anna Marti and Juliet Carr aka Juliet Anderson.
"For me, the discussion of feminist porn is secondary to actually creating the imagery," says director and whore activist cum porn star Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot.
In an groundbreaking exploration of sexual imagery from a "feminine" perspective, Masturbation Memoirs is uniquely lyric, comic and political, marking a new wave in women's pornography. In this first volume of a four volume series, three "middle aged" women tell their stories about early practices masturbating, followed by explicit, XXX-rated demonstrations. Recontextualizing the pornographic image, each woman invokes her most familiar cultural context: Scarlot Harlot (300 pounds of porn star) masturbates amid images of Americana. Dorrie Lane (vulvagoddess) demonstrates her esoteric masturbatory skills including ejaculation, and beautiful Guadeloupe San Francisco descends from her virgin pedestal with the aid of a hi-tech Japanese vibrator. Produced by House O'Chicks; Directed by Carol Leigh; Edited by Carol Leigh and Dorrie Lane; Soundtrack by Sue Kasper; shot in VulvaVision(r). (1995)

DAISY ANARCHY AT KLUB KOMMOTION

Sex worker/poet performs poems about Green River Murders and other issues.(1989)

FREE WHORES

THE WORLD CHARTER FOR PROSTITUTES' RIGHTS, plus Tracy Teif and Mourning Sickness sings "Sex Trade Worker". (6 min.-1993)

JUST SAY NO TO MANDATORY TESTING Click to see on YouTube

Campaign in the late 80s against testing of prostitutes organized by Leigh with THE AIDS ACTION PLEDGE (precursor to ACT UP).


MANDATORY TESTING DEMONSTRATION-HALL OF JUSTICE

Prostitutes and ACT UP protest mandatory HIV testing in San Francisco. (1989)

* WHORES AND HEALERS

Compilation addressing the role of prostitutes as teachers. Includes: CAL-PEP, an insider's look at a model HIV prevention/education program designed and implemented by prostitutes and ex-prostitutes for prostitutes; POCAAN (People of Color Against Aids Network); THE YEASTIE GIRLZ' safe sex rap,"PUT A LID ON IT." (1991)

WAC COMES OUT FOR SAN FRANCISCO STRIPPERS (1994)

A fairly rough piece featuring WAC women and other feminists discussing alliance with strippers at a protest against the labor-exploiting Mitchell Brothers. An encouraging document at feminist support for sex workers. Basically raw footage. (23 minutes)

STRIPPER PROTEST MITCHELL BROTHERS (1994)

- Raw footage of strippers protesting labor violations and mistreatment by Mitchell Brothers. (30 minutes)

* SWAM: SEX WORKERS ADDRESSING MACKINNON (1994)

This is watchable, interesting and entertaining. Sex workers protest outside Herbst Theater before Catherine MacKinnon's appearance. Should have been called Sex Workers Against MacKinnon, but we were being nice. (20 minutes)

* WE ARE NOT A FORCE TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY (1991)

Street journalism- interviews with about sex, body image, fatness and compassion from a fat dyke's street party (15 min) plus SCARLOT HARLOT'S INTERSTATE SOLICITATION TOUR-Scarlot and P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York) engage in civil disobedience on Wall Street.(15 min) SPEW 'ZINE CONFERENCE, L.A.C.E., VIDEO WITNESSES FESTIVAL1992, LOOKOUT-DC TV (N.Y.) L.A. FREEWAVES FESTIVAL & TOUR. (28 minutes)

* WHORE ON WHORE Directed by Victoria Schneider. Produced by Carol Leigh. (1995) Starring Victoria Schneider. Schneider directed this autobiographical snapshot of her own philosophical musings and stories about working on the streets. Says the director "Usually movies about ladies who happen to be prostitutes are just about them being prostitutes. That's the problem. What 's different about our movie is that it's about the whole person." (7 minutes)