The Red Umbrella Project (RedUP) amplifies the voices of people who have done transactional sex, through media, storytelling, and advocacy trainings, at our monthly storytelling series in New York City, and with support for advocacy projects and campaigns that promote the human rights of people who trade sex for something they need.
Our programming is based in New York City, but we also collaborate with colleagues through the United States and the world.
We are a member of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects and the PROS Network.
To learn more about the Red Umbrella Diaries storytelling events, click here.
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On April 9, we launched our first Kickstarter project to raise funds for “Cooking in Heels,” a memoir cookbook by Ceyenne Doroshow, one of Red Umbrella Project’s superstar storytellers. RedUP Director Audacia Ray has been collaborating with Ceyenne since February 2011.
A family that cooks and eats together, stays together. In Cooking in Heels, first time author Ceyenne Doroshow takes tradition to heart with over 50 recipes designed to be easy and inexpensive for the whole family to enjoy. As a transgender woman who was inspired to write her book while serving prison time for a prostitution conviction, Ceyenne might not seem like the most likely representative of home cooked family values. But her book, which is peppered with good humor and begins with the story of her life, shows that food and love are the ties that bind, and family is what you make it.
