Next Week at Blustockings

BLUESTOCKINGS Bookstore & Cafe CALENDAR
172 Allen Street @ Stanton
(1 block south of Houston)
212.777.6028
(You will not be turned away from an event at Bluestockings for lack of $)

Oct. 4, 7PM - Free
Reading: Joe Conason The Raw Deal

In his book The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans plan to destroy Social Security, Joe Conason exposes the faulty claims, deceptive methods, and ideological zeal of those who would 'save' Social Security by weakening it. Conason is the bestselling author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth" and the national correspondent for the New York Observer.

Oct. 5, 7PM - Free
Reading: Larry Bogad Electoral Guerilla Theatre

In liberal democracies across the globe, the right to vote is framed as both civil right and civic duty. So where does the use stand-up comedy, drag, sarcasm, and other iconoclastic performance fit into electorial politics? Extensively researched, the book Electoral Guerilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements explores satirical election campaigns, in which the goal is not 'winning', but undermining the legitimacy of the electoral system itself.

LaSara FireFox 

Oct. 7, 7PM - $5 to $10 Suggested
Salon: LaSara FireFox Sexy Witch

Join sex positive activist and author of Sexy Witch LaSara FireFox for a soulfully sexy evening. She'll open with a presentation on social engineering (i.e. marketing) on sexual self-image and then lead an open conversation about building a non-self-referential-sense-of-self that affords both personal growth and a claiming of one's sensual personae.

Oct. 8, 7PM - Free
Reading: Leora Skolkin Edges

In Leora Skolkin-Smith's new novel Edges, narrator Liana Barish is fourteen years old when her father's suicide forces her family from their New York suburban life and to her mother's native Jerusalem. In this new world of beauty and turmoil, Liana discovers startling truths and, with her young lover, escapes the stifling ties of home and family to live in the Palestinian world beyond Jerusalem's border.

Oct. 9, 7PM - Free
Book Release: Robyn Chapman True Porn 2True Porn is back!

Please join Robyn Chapman, the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology of autobiographical sex stories, in a look at the second volume of funny, heart-breaking, and sexy all-true comics. True Porn 2 is chock full of the real-life exploits of Sam Henderson (Magic Whistle), Rich Tommaso (Perverso!), Glenn Head (Snake Eyes), Hope Larson (Flight Volume Two), Kaz Strzepek (Redingk Weekly), and dozens of other great talents. From the highs to the lows of our most basic urge, True Porn Volume 2 is frank, honest, and always entertaining!