Danzine
Danzine was a Portland, Oregon-based harm reduction, outreach, and education organization for and by sex workers.
Organization
In 1994, "Theresa Dulce" and "Mona Superhero", were touring the United States working at strip clubs when their car broke down outside Portland, Oregon. They stayed.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine-koster/working-it-the-magazine-b_b_8201856.html|title=Working It: The Activist Art Magazine Fueling Labor Rights for Strippers and Other Sex Workers|last=Koster|first=Katherine|date=2015-10-01|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-29}}{{cite book |editor-last1=Trombold |editor-first1=John |editor-last2=Donahue |editor-first2=Peter |last=Pahlaniuk|first=Chuck |authorlink1=Chuck Pahlaniuk |title=Reading Portland: The City in Prose |date=2017 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=9780295997605 |pages=508–11 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jLc0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA508 |language=en |chapter=Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland}} Superhero, an artist who was part of a zinester network, suggested that they start a zine for dancers, called Danzine. Danzine grew from a monthly resource and information list into a zine edited by Dulce,{{Cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/36bf82a0a8220a01ebfa579049931c8e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=27053|title=Periodical Notes: New and Newly Discovered Periodicals|last=Schmidt|first=Linda|date=October 31, 1999|website=Feminist Collections|language=en|access-date=2018-06-29}} while Danzine the organization expanded to offer needle exchange, a drop-in center and clothing store, and to doing public advocacy and organizing against political repression of sex workers.{{Cite news|url=https://portlandtribune.com/component/content/article?id=49463|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629212752/https://portlandtribune.com/component/content/article?id=49463|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2018|title=Artist-activist knows much about marked women|last=Newell|first=Cliff|date=May 13, 2009|work=Portland Tribune|access-date=2018-06-29|language=en-gb}}
Dulce and Marne Lucas co-curated Portland's Sex by Sex Worker Film and Video Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/support-your-local-sex-worker/Content?oid=22984|title=SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SEX WORKER|last=Drake|first=Monica|website=Portland Mercury|language=en|access-date=2018-06-29}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Legacy and aftermath
In June 2005, Dulce and Lucas co-curated the "Danzine Retrospective" exhibit within At the Mercy of Others: the Politics of Care, an exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. The exhibit replicated part of Danzine's offices—its "Switzerland" safe space—, and contained issues of Danzine, artworks by contributors, and video installations.{{cite news |title=PORT: portlandart.net - Portland art + news + reviews |url=http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2005/07/david_valazques.html |first=David|last=Velasco|accessdate=22 July 2018 |work=www.portlandart.net}}{{citation|title=At the mercy of others: the politics of care|pages=3, 44|isbn=0874271452|date=2005 |last1=Archibald |first1=Sasha |last2=Lookofsky |first2=Sarah |last3=Marquina |first3=Cira Pascual |last4=Sorokina |first4=Elena |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art }}