Saint Agatha – ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

April 2020

THE TRICKING SICKING SINKING FUCKING HOUR HOURS AND HOURS

Sex work is done in the public sphere, and its margins. I do my work in bars, strip clubs, casinos, hotels, and apartments—sometimes in the same 24 hour period. We are forever...

February 2020

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Allie Mariano, Andru Okun, Coco Cruse, Danielle Dietze, Jon Kieran, Katie Sikora, Mary Beth Campbell, Raphael Helfand, Robert Landry, Saint Agatha, William Archambeault

October 2019

THE TRICKING HOUR

DEATH When I think about sex work, I do not think about sex. I think about bodies. I reflect on what bodies can incite in other bodies. The fascinating powers of our physical...

June 2019

THE TRICKING HOUR

SEX WORKERS AGAINST WORK On June 2, 1975 over 100 prostitutes occupied the Saint-Nizier church in Lyon, France to demand the end of fines, strike back against police violence, and...

May 2019

THE TRICKING HOUR

STIGMA Sex work has given me so much. I first turned myself out because I needed money, in a john’s house in a suburb that I can’t remember the name of. Every day since then,...

April 2019

THE TRICKING HOUR

FLOW STATE Our bodies are present for all of the simultaneous lives that we live. Despite its fragility, our body is our constant in all situations. The sex, the substances, the...

February 2019

THE TRICKING HOUR

ON LOVE There is a group of women known as the Church Ladies, who walk down Bourbon Street to share the “love and freedom of Christ” with strippers. They pray, sometimes come...

November 2018

THE TRICKING HOUR

NOT YOUR CONSTITUENT This campaign season, sex worker rights and decriminalization issues—not usually a topic of mainstream discourse—made appearances on the platforms of...

October 2018

THE TRICKING HOUR

GESTURES OF REFUSAL I have not been working nights for a few weeks, yet I still cannot sleep. I find myself awake, entangled in my sheets, rolling with the anxious, cyclical...

October 2018

ROLL CAMERA: AG PICKS FOR THE 2018 NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL

The 29th annual New Orleans Film Festival marks a very special occasion for Louisiana cinephiles. Over nine days in October, NOFF attendees will have the opportunity to see more...

A.T. Callaghan, Andru Okun, Beck Levy, Brandon Lattimore, Corey Cruse, Gabby Garcia-Steib, Nathan Tucker, Saint Agatha

September 2018

THE TRICKING HOUR

SCREEN TIME The declaration that #sexworkiswork is all over Twitter and Instagram, on stickers and t-shirts. It’s certainly on my mind, though not as an exclamation. It...

July 2018

THE TRICKING HOUR

QUEER TIME Do you think, in being a prostitute, I am selling my body? That I am transforming, compartmentalizing my identity, becoming Straight, becoming Woman, becoming (at one...