Book Club – Putafeminista
About this Event
**One drink minimum or food order required. Please tip your baristas & bartenders!**
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INTERNAL EXCHANGE
We are a collection of many parts. Some we show the world; others we archive for ourselves. This is a space to bring the inside out.
We source the nonfiction texts that society often avoids: the raw data on how we love, how we medicate, and the social theories we’ve been told to keep quiet about. We use these books as a lens to peer-review our own lives. It is a space where the private becomes a shared study – a safe place where we trade our own stories for a trusted ear, validating the data of our lives.
The name Internal Exchange is a deliberate paradox. Most internal things are kept locked away, but we believe that the only way to truly understand the self is through the necessity of an exchange. We take our private reflections – the thoughts we usually keep in the margins – and put them on the table as a shared currency. This is a community that isn’t afraid of discomfort; we are a support system willing to go to those vulnerable places together in the interest of learning about ourselves and others.
The objective: to use the page as a mirror. To assemble the self, one chapter at a time.
The book is the catalyst, your thoughts are the currency, the exchange is the medium, the assembly is the integration.
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Reading schedule:
- Week 1 – 6/8: No reading required; meet and greet & discuss book theme
- Week 2 – 6/15: Forewords + Chapters 1-4 (pages xiii-28)
- Week 3 – 6/22: Chapter 5-9 (pages 29-61)
- Week 4 – 6/29: Chapter 10-14 (pages 63-97)
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Our next book is by Monique Prada.
Description:
A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of sex workers to feminist struggle.
As long as feminism has existed as a movement in Brazil, sex workers have taken to the streets in solidarity—despite the fact that mainstream feminist discourse positions sex work, and the “putas” who enact it, as detrimental to women’s rights. In Putafeminista, activist and sex worker Monique Prada calls for feminists to retire this hypocrisy and embrace putafeminism: a working class women’s movement that rejects whorephobia and its classist, colonial dimensions.
Drawing on her firsthand experiences with sex work and movement building, Prada argues for the validity of sex work as feminist labor and tracks the innovations introduced by Brazilian sex workers to feminist internet discourse, street actions, and governmental advocacy. For readers seeking the glimmers of tomorrow’s feminism, Prada places that future with putafeminists, naming the brothel a “final frontier” for all women to gather, reform, and revolt.
Agenda
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Grab food/bevs, introductions, and ice breaker
🕑: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Discuss weekly reading
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