Spark to a Flame

Spark to a Flame showcases the artists of $pread and those inspired by the magazine, including Morgan M. Page, whose video "Treat You Like a Lady" (2015) was screened at our opening on March 3.

Sometimes a Conservative Senator just needs a good, old fashioned sissy spanking. Using news clips, senate recordings, female masking videos, and Xtube sissification pornography, transsexual artist and former pro Morgan M Page/Odofemi responds to Senator Don Plett's misogynist, whorephobic rhetoric by reimagining him as her sissification client.

Morgan M Page / Odofemi is a transsexual, former sex working, artist in Montréal. Her video work has screened around the world, and she performs regularly in Canada and the United States. She was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow, and has been involved in various local, national, and international sex workers' projects for the past decade.

Spark to a Flame showcases the artists of $pread, including this archival image from issue 2.1 of $pread and two new pieces by Molly Crabapple. Get tickets for the show's opening night/$pread book launch before they sell out!

Spark to a Flame showcases the artists of $pread, and those inspired by the magazine, including the film WHORELOGIC, by The Incredible, Edible Akynos. and PJ Starr. Show opens Tuesday March 3 -- get tickets while they last!

WHORE LOGIC (2013) melds elements of burlesque, video, an uncensored spoken­word performance and astounding archival footage of a car crash caused by public indecency to explore the journey of one woman who discovers the joy of using her body for power, to pay her rent and to finally understand her sexual objectification. Burlesque performer The Incredible, Edible, Akynos thrills audiences with her one woman show and her descriptions of the WHORE LOGIC experience in an unequal and racialized world. Akynos' development of the WHORE LOGIC script and first performance of the show at WOW Cafe on February 14, 2013 were documented by PJ Starr and colleagues. This footage along with multimedia elements created by Akynos and PJ were combined to create the film WHORE LOGIC (2013). WHORE LOGIC has screened at Uniondocs, the San Francisco Sex Worker FIlm and Art Festival and the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia as part of the Not Your Rescue Project Film Festival.

Back in 2005, after we sent the second issue of $pread to a so-called 'feminist' distributor, she sent us this not-so-feminist letter, along with the magazine we'd sent her, which she had taken the time to carefully shred. We always meant to put it in a potpourri bowl in our office, as a reminder of what we were up against, but we never quite got around to it.

Well, our shredded $pread will finally be on display in a potpourri bowl, along with the letter, at our book launch next week, Tuesday March 3, for one night only! Don't miss your chance to see this piece of history! (tickets are selling fast)

Buy tickets ($20 -- includes a FREE copy of the $pread book) RSVP on Facebook

Spark to a Flame showcases the artists of $pread, including the amazing Fly Orr, who illustrated every single one of $pread's Indecent Proposals columns over the years.

Spark to a Flame showcases the artists of $pread magazine, including Hawk Kinkaid, founder of HOOK online and former art director of $pread.

Spark to a Flame art show celebrates the artists of $pread, including the show's curator and former $pread art director Damien Luxe. Show opens Tuesday March 3!

DamienLuxe is a self-described “queer femme liberationist artist, digital technologist, and community organizer” living in New York. She co-organizes Heels on Wheels, which curates both the working-class-led, multi-racial queer-femme performance art traveling show, ‘Glitter Roadshow,’ as well as the NYC-based monthly event, Opentoe Peepshow, which has produced radical, punk community-driven events across the country. 

As an artist, her recent major performance works include: Not By Bread Alone, playing with mermaids and powdered milk to explore thriving past poverty and trauma; Exorcize, a satirical and serious healing aerobics program for all bodies; Hot Pink Mass, a church service that invokes the deity Trisha; and Femmes Fight Back, an interactive installation honoring queer herstories. Damien was $pread’s Art Director from 2007-2009. 

Installing Spark to a Flame art show yesterday at Dixon Place with curator Damien Luxe and $pread book editor Eliyanna Kaiser!

Spark to a Flame art show celebrates the artists of $pread magazine, including the amazing Cristy C. Road.

Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist and writer. Blending punk rock, queer counterculture, mental inadequacies, social justice, and occasional perverted bathroom humor- Road thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Her obsession with making art [and her emotions] publicly accessible began when publishing GREEN'ZINE in 1997- a fanzine which was originally devoted to the punk rock group, Green Day. Today Road works as a freelance illustrator, aside from her personal goals in publishing.

Cristy contributed many original works of art to $pread throughout its publishing years.

Less than one month until our book launch in NYC! 

Tuesday March 3 at Dixon Place in the Lower East Side. 

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