This presentation is a report from strippers organizing in New Orleans against police raids, criminalization, and gentrification on Bourbon Street. Collaboration and organizing among sex workers is both a natural and endlessly challenging facet of out lives and work. In addition to laying out recent efforts in anticipation and responses to attacks on strippers in New Orleans and an ongoing national trend, we hope to enter into a discussion which makes room for a multiplicity of experiences and spectrum of needs, risks and futures. If we are against work, what does a struggle to continue out ability to work safely become? How do we cut through through stigma, risk, invisibility, isolation- not in order to 'fight for our jobs' but rather fight for our liberation in all aspects of our lives?

During the weekend of June 22-24, Asheville Firestorm will host the second annual Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair. Hundreds of people from the southeast and beyond will be participating in workshops, talks, panels, community building, skill sharing, and celebrating resistance. Dozens of presses, publishers, radical and anarchist groups will display their books, zines, and artwork, while promoting their projects. The organizers hope that this second year will continue to build sites of resistance, structures of counterpower, and networks of solidarity across the region and the world.