Sex work writer, blogger, and friend of TRPWL, Maggie McNeill is coming to Las Vegas next week and UNLV has got her
McNeill will speak at UNLV’s Sociology Department Brown Bag, 12:30-2 pm, Tuesday June 17, 2014 in the Sociology Conference Room, CBC B225B.
The event is free and open to the public. If you can, please attend, and spread the word to whoever may be around.
Maggie McNeill, of the popular blog, “The Honest Courtesan,” will be speaking on her new book of short stories, Ladies of the Night.
“Though popular blogger Maggie McNeill is best known for her perceptive, witty and razor-sharp essays on the facts about and issues surrounding sex work, her short fiction has also been highly praised. This book, her first published collection, contains thirty-seven stories ranging from fantasy to reality and from comedy to horror, whose heroines are all quite different from one another but have one thing in common: membership in the world’s oldest profession. But what makes them interesting isn’t entirely bound up in their work; in fact, you may find that, with a few notable exceptions, they aren’t all that different from other women you may know, either in fiction or in real life. The strange and fantastic situations they find themselves in, however, are another matter entirely…”
McNeill has been a librarian, stripper, call girl and madam, and now writes a successful blog called “The Honest Courtesan” which examines the realities, myths, history, lore, science, philosophy, art, and every other aspect of prostitution; she also reports sex work news, critiques the way her profession is treated in the media and by governments, and is frequently consulted by academics and journalists as an expert on the subject.
[…] “Though popular blogger Maggie McNeill is best known for her perceptive, witty and razor-sharp essays on the facts about and issues surrounding sex work, her short fiction has also been highly praised. This book, her first published collection, contains thirty-seven stories ranging from fantasy to reality and from comedy to horror, whose heroines are all quite different from one another but have one thing in common: membership in the world’s oldest profession. But what makes them interesting isn’t entirely bound up in their work; in fact, you may find that, with a few notable exceptions, they aren’t all that… Read more »