Solidarity Cinema screening of

WORKING GIRLS (1986)

Media: Digital
Runtime: 91 minutes
Directed by Lizzie Borden
Starring
Louise Smith
Deborah Banks
Liz Caldwell
Ellen McElduff

This is an outdoor screening weather permitting.
Screening is Free.

Sex work is work. The bosses still suck. But there’s solace in solidarity. Lizzie Borden’s workplace satire WORKING GIRLS (1986)—a feminist hangout masterpiece—candidly follows a day in a high-end Manhattan brothel. It’s fun, it’s boring, and it’s so smart in depicting the frustrating ambivalences, routines, power dynamics, and performances in service work—protecting lovers, appeasing bosses, and pleasing clients—as well as the exhausting fantasy of achieving work-life balance when all work is exploitation.

“Lizzie Borden takes an axe to the Hollywood image of the prostitute.” — Time Out

“Rather than present Molly and her coworkers as objects of pity, Borden asks her viewers to relate to them, an idea which unfortunately remains as transgressive as it did when the film was first released.” — Screen Slate

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Support sex workers!

Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago—a grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of current and former sex workers in the Chicago area, on and off of the job—will be at the screening and offer an introduction to their work. swop-chicago.org

Donate to Lynzo’s urgent housing fundraiser. Lynzo spent much of the pandemic crowdfunding for Black sex workers and needs our support: gofundme.com/f/urgent-housing-fundraiser

Chicaghoes For Sx Work Black + Brown SWers Mutual Aide for the Chicagoland Area instagram.com/chicaghoesforsxwork

Stripper Strike Chicago instagram.com/stripperstrikechicago

We Are Dancers wadusa.org

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Solidarity Cinema shares film accounts of left struggle and solidarity. solidaritycinema.com

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Programed for Comfort Film by

Raul Benitez, Nando Espinosa, Emily Perez, Mathew Tapey.