.@KinkOutEvents & @RedCanarySong Present “Red Canary SCREAMS” Nov 2

October 29, 2019
NSFW.ARMY

An All Asian American Activation For Sex Workers’ Rights Featuring Burlesque / Drag / Kink / Tattoo, Hosted by Wang Newton

Red Canary SCREAMS is a fundraiser for Red Canary Song, an organization advocating and providing resources for Asian migrant massage parlor workers in Flushing, Queens. It is a historic grand gathering of the Asian American underground: queer, burlesque, drag, fetish, tattoo, and circus communities UNITE for an extravaganza of entertainment and eroticism!

EVENT INFO:

TITLE: Red Canary SCREAMS
WHAT: All Asian American Activation for Sex Workers’ Rights
WHEN: Saturday, Nov 2nd, 2-8pm
WHERE: Lot 45, 411 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY 11237
WHO: Hosted by Wang Newton, Co-Produced by Red Canary Song & Kink Out Events

TICKETS + INFO: tinyurl.com/redcanaryscreams

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Red Canary SCREAMS is a fundraiser for Red Canary Song and historic grand gathering of the Asian American underground: queer, burlesque, drag, fetish, tattoo, and circus communities UNITE for an extravaganza of entertainment and eroticism!

Red Canary SCREAMS is co-produced by Red Canary Song and Kink Out, hosted by the phenomenal Drag King, Wang Newton, and joined by an incredible line up, including: burlesque by Calamity Chang and Kitana Louise, kink experiences with Mistress Lucy Sweetkill and Domina Dia Dynasty, tattoo sessions with @arielisgood and @squids.ink, and drag by Emi Grate and Demon Daddy, to name a few of our many shining stars.

Politicians: Ron Kim (Queens) and Yuh-Line Niou (Manhattan Chinatown) will be joining and speaking on their work and support of Red Canary Song and decriminalization of sex work.

Asian sexuality is often co-opted and exoticised by those who are not of Asian heritage. Red Canary SCREAMS is both a protest and a celebration on a multitude of levels. Asian American performers who craft their work on body, identity, and erotic agency are unifying to champion rights and protections for the most marginalized and silenced within our communities – migrant massage parlor workers.

Red Canary SCREAMS is a full afternoon of burlesque, drag, and circus performances, as well as on-site kink experiences such as bootblacking, rope bondage, flogging, and hanky-code flagging. Tattoo, photographic, and sexuality coaching sessions are up for bid in our silent auction, and prints, merchandise, and event-themed live embroidery are available to purchase.

About Red Canary Song:
Red Canary Song is a grassroots organization advocating and providing resources for Asian Migrant Massage Parlor Workers. It is led by Asian American Sex Workers and Allies, who advocate and gather resources for the Migrant Massage Parlor Workers based in Flushing, Queens, NY. Red Canary Song sprouted from the terrible tragedy of Yang Song, a Chinese massage sex worker, who fell to her death during a police raid in 2017.

Yang Song’s Story: A year prior to the night of her death, Yang Song, a massage parlor worker in Flushing, Queens, was sexually assaulted by a man who identified himself as a police officer. Yang Song filed a report with the NYPD, but identified the wrong man in a line up, a method that notoriously effects false positives. Later that year, and just months prior to Yang Song’s fatal arrest, the NYPD forcibly brought her to their station to try to convince her to become an informant on the other women who worked by her side.

On November 25th, over the Thanksgiving holiday of 2017, an undercover police officer solicited Yang Song with the intention to arrest her. The building’s video cameras show Yang Song shutting the officer out of the door and pacing in anxiety. There is no footage of what happened minutes before Yang Song’s fall, but a camera caught a glimpse of her body dropping past a window. The next morning at New York Presbysterian Hospital in Queens, Yang Song was pronounced dead with multiple fractures to her head and body.

Red Canary Song formed to advocate for a community that is exploited, demonized, victimized, and silenced. It has been recognized and awarded for service to the Asian community by Queens Assemblyperson, Ron Kim, and Chinatown Assemblyperson, Yuh-line Niou. Red Canary Song is working closely with DecrimNY.org to ensure that the most marginalized sex workers are protected in future decriminazation policies.

Red Canary Song Mission Statements
https://medium.com/@Redcanarysong/in-support-of-dsa-res-53-decrim-platform-8eb4d164588

About Kink Out:
Kink Out events bring people of intersectional identities together to share activism, art, work, and respectful conversation. Past events include an art exhibition in collaboration with Tiona Nekki McClodden at Performance Space NY; the launch of Mercy Mistress, a webseries about a Chinese American dominatrix, at the Museum of Sex; and a live tattoo, kink-experience, and art auction fundraiser, which raised $35,000 for Lysistrata, a mutual aid fund for sex workers.

About the Producers:
Wang Newton: Voted one of the Top 25 Drag Kings of the World and regarded as the premier king of Asian heritage, Wang has been performing internationally as an emcee and cheeky persona for the past 15 years. The good doctor has been written up in Dazed Magazine’s article, ‘Groundbreaking Drag Artists Who Aren’t RuPaul’ and featured in print books DRAGS and Are We a Joke.
Yin Q: BDSM educator, and creator/writer of Mercy Mistress, and member of Red Canary Song. They founded Kink Out Events to bring together intersectional people of the Leather/Kink communities for art, conservation, and activism.
Empress Wu is a Chinese American dominatrix and creative organizer based in NYC. She is curious about the relationship between bodily labor, time, and capital, and how that relationship manifests in sexual and creative marketplaces.
Niko Flux is a Dominatrix by day, artist and curator by night based in New York.
Bridget Conway-Taylor is a queer butch leather daddy who by day is an operations and digital strategist in corporate America.
KD Diamond is a tattooist, recipient of International Ms Bootblack 2011, and an illustrator of a number of sex and kink books, including Girl Sex 101 and The Ultimate Guide to Kink.