We invite you to a book launch celebration with Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle plus their special guests including environmentalists, professors, international artists, a cowgirl, a donkey and others.
Book Launch Celebration: Assuming the Ecosexual Position
Featuring Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, and Special Guests
October 5, 4-5:30 p.m. PDT
Online Event: Register here
In 2008, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens married the Earth, setting them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality. Assuming the Ecosexual Position describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory, their seven-year art and exhibition project with performance artists Linda M. Montano, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and feminist pornographer Madison Young.
Throughout the pages of the book, Stephens and Sprinkle share the process of making interactive performance art, celebrating their vows to love, honor, and cherish the many elements of the Earth. The collaboration between Sprinkle, Stephens, their diverse communities, and the Earth opens gender and sexuality, and art and environmentalism to the infinite possibilities and promise of love.
As written in CNN, Stephens and Sprinkle's "collaborative projects bring joy amid injustice and hardship... make saving the planet a bit sexier." The book launch is planned as another joyful project in the struggle against climate change.
Assuming the Ecosexual Position is available for purchase here with a 40% discount through December 1, 2021, as part of the National Women's Studies Association conference sale.
This event is collaboratively produced by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Arts Research Institute, the Science & Justice Research Center, and E.A.R.T.H. Lab.
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have been life partners and collaborators on multimedia projects since 2002. They are authors of the Ecosex Manifesto and producers of the award-winning film Goodbye Gauley Mountain and Water Makes Us Wet. Sprinkle is a former sex worker with a PhD in human sexuality. Stephens holds a PhD in performance studies and is founding director of E.A.R.T.H. Lab at University of California at Santa Cruz.