Femina Potens Gallery
2199 Market St
415.864.1558
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Courtesy Orion Books
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Sunday July 18, 2010 (3–5pm)
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$15
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“Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of Britain's most famous prostitute. In 2003 she started anonymously blogging about her £300-an-hour sexual escapades, which involved blindfolds, choke chains, and post-coital pillow talk about Martin Amis. After securing the Guardian newspaper's blogging award and a six-figure publishing deal, she sent the British media into a frenzy — who was this PhD student-turned-happy hooker? Her journals were even converted into the Showtime series The Secret Diary of a Call Girl. After a six-year woman-hunt, Belle finally came clean after an ex threatened to out her, and revealed herself to be Dr. Brooke Magnanti, an expert on neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology. Tonight at Femina Potens, Belle/Brooke gives a workshop on blogging and how to talk dirty with panache.”
Joey Stevenson, Flavorpill
Femina Potens says:
The author of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Belle de Jour, leads you through an exploration of identity and sex work through the written word and blogging!
