Thanks to everyone who came out on Tuesday night for the North American premiere of "Revelations of Divine Love" at Semaine de la Critique de Montreal! Showing in a double feature with Olivier Godin's "Oublie pas le gruau" was truly the treat of treats, I love this wacky freezing town!

Mayor Wu’s administration @mayorwu.boston.gov is trying to ban street outreach at Mass & Cass, targeting the very people who help street based sex workers and drug users stay alive. This is cruel abandonment by policy. We will continue our street outreach despite this.

Harley was my former editor so it’s a pleasure seeing her write about fashion & its socio-political impact. Dilara is a designer I used to love for how she integrated sx work culture into her designs. Now, via her poor workplace ethics & aligning with fascist barbies, I can see that it was a grift.

A specter is haunting Europe…. (It’s my movie)! REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE screening at the 10th edition of Novos Cinemas in Pontevedra on Dec 12! Once again honored to be the sole US film among the official selection! novoscinemas.com/pelicula/rev...

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So happy for Onyeka but I think it’s irresponsible for the committee to make them spilt the award. If you’re going to award two winners then fund those winners with the expected amount, you make it happen. This is not touching the fact on how bad it looks for the two Blk artists to have to share.

London ppl: Go see this movie! I’m also in it for a lil bit, lol.

I wrote about Angelo Madsen’s A Body to Live in for Film Comment.

Wrapping up the NWSA conference @theenwsa.bsky.social - it was such a pleasure to present my work on sex worker subjectivities in Argentina & Ecuador, & hear from and meet other sex work scholars like @dozierayanna.bsky.social, @lena-chen.bsky.social , Lauren Levitt, Brit Schulte, Kassandra Sparks…

for blackstar's SEEN journal, i had the honor of writing about becoming the country's largest black film distributor and the history of racist practices that keeps black film distribution locked up in a cyclical prison. www.blackstarfest.org/seen/read/is...

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

This weekend I had the pleasure of screening "Revelations of Divine Love" for the esteemed scholars of the International Anchoritic Society & Early Middle English conference at Brandeis! Believe me folks, there is no tougher room than one filled with medievalists! And they dug it!!

I’ll lead a listening exercise/lecture on Blk women’s sonic sensualities & sufferings at Wendy’s Subway (9/18). I’ll talk about my new manuscript on Blk sx workers’ influence in music culture/honor the 5th anniversary of my book on Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope www.wendyssubway.com/programs/eve...

tonight (July 29th) I will introduce Batman & Robin, one of my favorite films, at Low Cinema in Ridgewood. I’ll briefly speak on how Schumacher cites and extends on queer cinema of both Pre and Post code Hollywood. Come out, if only for the A/C, lol. lowcinema.com/tickets/p/eh...

"Hey Caroline, how'd it go with the World Premiere of 'Revelations of Divine Love' at FIDMarseille?" Your burning question, ANSWERED, over at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/con...

I wrote about erotics & process in the work of Paul Mpagi Sepuya for Family Style Magazine. I’m not really into writing art profiles anymore but this was an exception as a photographer I want to be able to be able to dig into process with other photographers. www.family.style/art/paul-mpa...

This is exactly why people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy are isolated, harmed or worse, m*rdered. Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.

Anti-Blackness performed a work within this case. This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.

That conflation between s3x w0rk and prostitution is how we get here. This where the whore disfigure enters.

For the last six years, I have sat with this work and can share that “The pornographer and the party” has officially been published by Women & Performance journal. Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍. #blackstudies doi.org/10.1080/0022...

(5/5) "Though [Ayanna Dozier's] exploration of...the psychosexual trappings of evangelism and the suppression of libidinal desires by belief systems is playful, the link between sex and religion are... explicit: ‘Both acts of submission required me to be on my knees.’" artreview.com/sex-workers-...

The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap artreview.com/sex-workers-...

A great essay by Sophia Satchell-Baeza on my film, writing, and visual art practice on sex work is up on ArtReview. It’s the first long form review of my work to ever be published in an arts journal/magazine so this means a lot. Give it a read: artreview.com/sex-workers-...

we will NOT be rehabilitating Brownmiller on my watch. Her discourse on rape participates and codifies colonial “common sense” fascist narratives on race and gender essentialism that decry cis white women as a protected class that becomes the cult of “true” femininity.

Installation views of my solo exhibition, Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You are now available. The exhibition is on view through May 31st at Microscope Gallery. This Friday (5/16) at 7PM, I will be in conversation with curator Jesse Firestone about the show. microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...

@dozierayanna.bsky.social 's "Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water", which I play opposite the @cleoouyang.bsky.social, premieres Thursday at The Walker Museum in Minneapolis. Check out this interview with Ayanna in anticipation of the exhibition of her work. walkerart.org/magazine/my-...

My second NYC solo show, “Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You,” opens next Thursday (6-8PM) at Microscope Gallery. The show features new photographs on leather (a technique I’ve been working on for 5 years) and three new 16mm films. Hope to see you there 🖤 microscopegallery.com/ayanna-dozie...

I wrote about the experimental films Mano Destra and Kissy Suzuki Suck. Two films by sex workers that examine dominatrixing and street-based encounters. You can read it on @screenslate.bsky.social and then head over to AFA to catch the only screening at 5:15 PM. www.screenslate.com/articles/man...

I wrote a short essay on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ for @dozierayanna.bsky.social ‘s “Women, Workers, and Whores on Film” Anthology Film Archives screening series premiering tonight. The alternate title for the Zine is “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E.” www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...

Reminder that “Women, Workers & Whores on Film” kicks off tomorrow at Anthology Film Archives. The series runs from April 4th-10th. The lineup, showtimes, & tickets can be found via the link below. I will deliver opening remarks tomorrow before Girl 6. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

WOMEN, WORKERS, AND WHORES ON FILM April 4 – 10 Guest-curated by Ayanna Dozier and co-presented with Screen Slate. Program info: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni... @dozierayanna.bsky.social @screenslate.bsky.social

The zine is off to the press, featuring responses by Natasha Gornik, Elspeth Walker, Lauren Levitt, Lena Chen, & Zalika U. Ibaorimi. It can be ordered via Screen Slate or on-site during the screenings (4/4-10) at Anthology Film Archives ($15). Pre-orders can be sent to my Venmo account @dozierayanna

Thank you to the ‘When We’re Not Hustling’ podcast for inviting me. This is a podcast where current and former s3x w0rkers discuss s3x w0rk and anything but. nothustling.com/episode/s3-e...

I wrote about On Becoming a Guinea Fowl for @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy, read it via the link below: www.filmcomment.com/blog/family-...

Mourning the loss of Linda Williams. It’s hard to think of another scholar whose work helped define such a diverse range of subfields. For me, her 1981 essay “Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions” was a beacon showing how fundamental feminist analysis could be for early cinema. RIP

Shooting a striptease/rabid dance performance film this weekend and I am not only scared shitless, but can’t shake the feeling that I am investing time, labor, and money into something that no one else supports. I’ll be happy once it’s over.

I started planning this film series three years ago as I write primarily about experimental film & sex. The series features my favorite films on sex work that includes shorts, narrative, and experimental pieces. The series “ Women, Workers, & Whores On Film” runs 4/4-4/10 at Anthology Film Archives

the wikipedia article for anora cites both of these in the reception section and that's very significant to me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anora

anora allows liberals to feel enlightened for engaging with another fantastical tale of a "complex" sex worker character that is used and abused by men, has no concept of intimacy beyond sex, and has no real meaningful relationships in her life -- leading her to seek any comfort she can find.

anora is r/sexworkers fanfiction, from the brain of a slobbyist, come to life. one of my greatest frustrations with hollywood sex workers stories is that they rely on sensationalism -- like all hollywood stories. but because i know the reality, it's very difficult to suspend disbelief.

One day, just one day, there will be a film that engages a “s3x w0rker”— and not just a “[white] s3x w0rker” either. And in the event that this doesn’t even happen, it will not be like ‘Anora,’ which is literally a white “male” clients’ fantasy and ethnography of s3x w0rk/the worker.

“reminding” an audience I haven’t interacted with that I was one of the few dissenting voices against Anora. You can read my thoughts via the link below. ultradogme.com/2025/02/06/t...

I’m not really on here yet but I curated a film series on sex workers for @anthologyfilm.bsky.social that is co-presented with @screenslate.bsky.social. I’ll be on hand for intros & post-screening dialogues with some fun + smart ppl & there will even be zines! “Women, Workers, & Whores” runs 4/4-10.