The Red Umbrella Diaries began as a monthly s*x worker storytelling event in NYC and has evolved into workshops, a lit journal, & a feature documentary.
01/10/2016
Beautiful profile of Ceyenne Doroshow, with pictures of her at The River Fund New York, Inc., all about food, community, and the resilience of a black trans woman.
In the US, a recipe for inclusiveness and acceptance The American transgender woman using family recipes to fight against prejudice and for equal rights.
01/05/2016
Coming out as a s*x worker has a lot of nuances to it.
The Dangerous Catch-22 of Coming out As a S*x Worker People malign s*x workers without realizing they're talking to one.
12/14/2015
NY Mag shares the stories of several men who used Rentboy before it was shut down by the feds. The Red Umbrella Diaries' own Sailor was interviewed, and describes himself as "a hairy little Jewish Ewok" (plus insights about the ever changing business).
What Did Busting Rentboy.com Do to the Hustler Economy? 6 Rentboys Tell All "It's definitely affected my business, but thankfully I have regulars."
11/19/2015
Mic has a piece up about our documentary: "The stories are raw and emotional, touching on themes ranging from coming out to parents to cheap clients with in**st fantasies."
7 S*x Workers Shatter the Stereotypes About Their Profession, In Their Own Words Listen up.
11/13/2015
Filmmaker Magazine has an in depth interview with Audacia Ray about the Diaries storytelling series, how came to be, the perils of liberal audiences, the ho hierarchy, and how RedUP uses storytelling in our advocacy work.
Talking S*x Work with The Red Umbrella Diaries Producer Audacia Ray | Filmmaker Magazine It was a little over half a decade ago that I read at one of Audacia Ray’s intimate Red Umbrella Diaries events on the Lower East Side. Since then this s*x
11/12/2015
"For s*x workers, whose voices are often unheard, this documentary will be a breath of fresh air. For everyone else this will be a compelling documentary to learn from."
Lily Fury wrote about for Ravishly and interviewed some of the cast!
S*x Workers Take Back Their Own Narrative In The Red Umbrella Diaries Audacia Ray runs a nonprofit called the Red Umbrella Project (RUD), and has been arranging storytelling events by s*x workers, publishing several literary anthologies about s*x workers experiences, and finally teamed up with an Emmy-winning documentary crew to feature the stories of seven diverse ca…
11/10/2015
The Village Voice has our first press in the lead up to the NYC premiere at DOC NYC // IFC Center on Monday, November 16. (buy tix here: http://www.docnyc.net/film/red-umbrella-diaries-the/ #.ViU4NdKrTcs)
"The discourse around s*x work has been developing," says Anna Saini, a law student and cast member in the Red Umbrella Diaries documentary. "We're coming together as a community of s*x workers, collectively making it safer to come out, bringing this issue into the mainstream."
New Documentary Aims to 'Complicate the Narrative' About S*x Workers People love talking about s*x, but what about s*x work? For years the conversation existed mostly in the underground, but more recently has crept closer to the mainstream, thanks in part to a monthly storytelling event in Manhattan called The Red Umbrella Diaries. Now, s*x workers are telling their…
11/09/2015
11/07/2015
In The Red Umbrella Diaries Audacia Ray says, "I don't really want to tell this story, which is why I should tell it." She opens up about coming out to her family as a s*x worker and the aftermath of that revelation in the film.
Join Audacia and the other cast members on November 16, 9:30 pm IFC Center to see the DOC NYC premiere of our feature documentary!
Audacia Ray backstage at Joe's Pub
11/06/2015
Page, our resident theater nerd, tells her story about being a second generation stripper in The Red Umbrella Diaries.
See her tell her story, along with six other s*x workers, at the DOC NYC premiere of our documentary on November 16, 9:30 pm at the IFC Center - tickets here: http://www.docnyc.net/film/red-umbrella-diaries-the/ #.Vjagr2SrTx5
Page on stage at Joe's Pub
11/05/2015
Most documentaries about s*x work don't include the experiences of men who sell s*x, but The Red Umbrella Diaries does! Meet Dominick and Sailor and hear about how and why they got into s*x work and how their experiences are different from cis and trans women.
Get your tickets to our DOC NYC screening - November 16, 9:30 pm at IFC Center - today:
http://www.docnyc.net/film/red-umbrella-diaries-the/ #.Vjagr2SrTx5
Dominick and Sailor outside the Russian Baths
11/04/2015
In The Red Umbrella Diaries documentary, Ceyenne Doroshow tells a story about growing up as a transgender girl in black churches in Brooklyn. She also wears a lot of amazing outfits and cooks up a storm.
See the story of the Cooking In Heels at the NYC premiere of the film on Monday, November 16, 9:30 pm at IFC Center, part of the DOC NYC Festival. Get your tickets before they sell out: http://www.docnyc.net/film/red-umbrella-diaries-the/ #.Vjagr2SrTx5
Ceyenne Doroshow on her porch in Queens