Book Launch of Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

We cordially invite you to the launch of the Czech translation of Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by New York-based writer, artist and sex worker Sophia Giovannitti. The book was translated by Ondřej Trhoň and Toby Wehle, with afterword by MgA. Markéta Garai.

The book launch will take place from 6pm at the Safe space bookstore. You will be able to buy the book at a discounted price and have our special drink 𝓢𝓮𝔁 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓻𝔂.

Address:
Safe space bookstore
U Božích bojovníků 606/3
130 00 Prague 3-Žižkov

We desire art and sex because we desire human authenticity, pure emotion, and beauty. And yet, in a capitalist society, both turn into commodities and capital. Through personal experience, Sophia Giovannitti guides us through the realities of art and sex work to reveal their proximity and mutual conditioning. With precision and care, she exposes the material conditions of sex and art and asks: can we use this irrefutable reality to our advantage and for our liberation? How can we take everything without having to give of ourselves?

With its compelling combination of personal stories, critical (auto)theory, and excursions into the history of art and sex work, Working Girl can be considered a groundbreaking work of contemporary feminist art theory. Sophia Giovannitti shows us how to capture for ourselves what we value most without being indebted to anyone. In the author’s words: „I don’t want anyone to take anything from me. I want to give or sell freely.“

Sophia Giovannitti (*1992, New York) is an artist, writer, and sex worker living in New York City. Her work thematizes and analyzes the permeable boundaries between art and sex work. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex is her first book.