Published in 2022
148 pages
Writer, performer, and sex worker advocate Andrea Werhun is a former peer outreach worker with Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project and has given university lectures, led workshops, hosted and participated on panels, and performed countless readings of her work. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto (2012), with a major in English and a double minor in Religion and Paradigms & Archetypes. She has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, VICE, CBC, and Hazlitt, and posed nude alongside her essay about sex work for the 65th Anniversary print issue of Playboy.
Award-winning artist and filmmaker Nicole Bazuin is the creator/director of the comedy art show This Art Works! (CBC), and the doc series Climate Talks With Kids (Bell TV). Her film Sleeping With Family was an official selection at the Hot Docs Film Festival. Nicole’s media artworks have been exhibited in the Art Gallery of Ontario, and commissioned by festivals such as Nuit Blanche and Luminato. She is co-founder of Madeleine Co., an all-female interdisciplinary art collective reimagining social issues through experiential storytelling and multimedia art.
What is this book about?
Born out of an irrepressible urge to share the author’s own complex experience of sex work, Modern Whore is a book that defies common stereotypes and visual representations of the “prostitute.” It’s an honest and inside look at the funny, meaningful, disturbing, and erotic aspects of the world’s oldest profession.
Modern Whore is a creative memoir in the form of a collection of short stories, fiction and fairy-tale combined with film photography and the artistic vision of filmmaker Nicole Bazuin. Presented in 150-pages of vivid colour without pseudonym or pixilation, this book is an unabashedly feminist, sex-positive and imaginative autobiography unlike anything you’ve seen before.
