DOCUMENTARY MEETS 2.04: Straight for the Money (Hima B., 1994)

“The reality of my daily life as a prostitute was a startling contrast to my prior assumptions about prostitution.” – Scarlot Harlot

Spring has sprung, the birds and the bees are getting busy and so is Documentary Meets, which returns for the fourth instalment of its second season with the theme ‘SEX WORKER HISTORIES’.

Join us at Composite on the evening of Thursday, September 29, for a one-off screening of Hima B’s no frills, real-talking documentary Straight for the Money (1994), presented in partnership with the Sex-Worker Narrative Salon. The film provides a platform for eight lesbian and bisexual-identifying sex workers, invited by Indian-born, United States-raised filmmaker Hima B to speak candidly about their experiences in the world’s oldest, and some would argue, most stigmatised, profession – amongst them, such sex work advocates as the performance artist and sexologist Annie Sprinkle and writer and filmmaker Scarlot Harlot (who, incidentally, is credited with coining the term ‘sex work’). A fierce and frank work of de-mystification, offered without pretence or apology.

The screening will be prefaced by a reading from a member of the local creative writing collective Sex-Worker Narrative Salon.