EDUCATION:

• Dungeons, clubs, stripper stage, backrooms, psych wards, kitchens, forests, oceans 
• MFA Writing, Creative Non-Fiction, The New School, 2007
• BA English Lit, Creative Writing, Barnard College, 2000

MEDIA:

• 2023 Fly in Power: EP/Co-Director Feature Documentary Watch Trailer >HERE<
  • Access Fly in Power on Good Docs >HERE<
• 2019 Yang Song: Fly in Power: EP/Co-Director Short Video. Watch >HERE< 
• 2018 Mercy Mistress Pilot: Creator/Writer/EP credits; watch below:

Mercy Mistress: Ken -- Pilot from Amanda Madden on Vimeo.

AUDIO: Intro to BDSM and Kink- a guided series for novices on DIPSEA

ESSAYS:

• The Funambulist Issue #57, Jan 2025, essay: Night, Mistress: Sex Work on the Clock of Capitalism
  
• ProMomme Issue #1, essay: Tiger Whore  
• The Point Magazine, essay: We All Deserve to Heal
• WE TOO: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Edited by Natalie West, with Tina Horn Order HERE
• Queer Magic Anthology: Power Beyond Boundaries--edited by Lee Harington& Tai Fenix Kulystin.  Order HERE
• Mother, May I-- an edited version of my original essay, Mother Whore-- appears in BUST Feb/March 2017. 
• Apogee Journal Issue #8​ ​First chapter of memoir published in Apogee Journal. Order  HERE.
• Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans edited by Fred Ho and Bill Mullen; Published by Duke University Press​​

A WOMEN'S THING Staff writer 2015-2018
​ Chance Magazine Staff Writer 2012-2016 Profile Articles/ Print Only

Speaking, Event Production, & Educational Engagements include:

• 2026
  • MoMA PS1: Touch the Heart: Red Canary Song art installation; co-Artistic Director and co-producer w. Chong Gu
  • Association of Asian American Scholars Convention: The Migrant Table Panel presentation
• 2025
  • CLAGS Conversation on Exigent Sadism with Avgi Saketoupoulo
  • Co-Creative Director & Co-Producer KINK OUT CLAGS Power of Leather series 
  • Mourning and Militancy, presented by CSGS at NYU
• 2024
  • Park Ave Armory, Red Canary Song presentation at community conversations on Wish Tree, by Yoko Ono 
  • Center for Studies on Gender and Sexuality at NYU Panel on Migrant Sex work and History of Imperialism
  • Our Inner Quarters: Red Canary Song art installation; co-Art Director & producer with Chong Gu
  • Storefront Gallery for Art & Architecture:co-Art Director & producer with Chong Gu
• 2023
  • Brown Artist in Residence Jan 2023-May 2023: programming included workshops & conversations on Queer parenting, Asian fetishism, Sado Masochism, Altar building, Archives from a SW perspective, fundraising event for local SW org, rope bondage and queer leather history, and independent studies
  • Brown Panel: Racism: White Supremacy & Coloniality of Trafficking
  • Feminist Utopias April 2023 HOSTED BY CONSORTIUM OF WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES/ MIT
• 2022
  • Labor in Crises MiniConference at UTLA; August 2022; Red Canary Song panel moderator; EP
  • Kink Out IWD 2022 Geffen, MoCA; AP
  • Red Canary Song Atlanta Vigil 2022: Host speaker, EP
• 2021
  • Funding Forward: Sex Worker Organizing Impacts LGBTQIA Issues May 2021
  • Red Canary Song Atlanta Vigil 2021: Speaker & Producer; Brown University panel speaker
  • Community Organizing & Mutual Aid for Columbia University School of Social Work April 2021
  • Decoding Stigma Panel Discussion for Harvard Law: Berkley Klein CyberClinic March 2021
  • We Too Readings at McNally Jackson & Skylight Books 2021 with Roxanne Gay
• 2019-2020
  • MoMA PS1 Kink Out Artist in Residency, Winter 2019-20:
    • Closed BIPOC conversations on Race, fetishism, and desire
    • Leather Lit Day: Storytelling, Letter writing to incarcerated Sex workers; zine making
    • SPACES: A Day of Art, activism, and conversation in the museum VWDome and Art Space. 
  • Harvard Law School: Hacking Hustling Survival in Technology 2019
  • Columbia University: From Criminalization to Liberation, a panel presented by Red Canary Song & Asian Studies Dept. 2019
  • Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC Bow Down: Queer Sex Workers' Panel 2019
  • PleaseNY Brooklyn, NYC | Monthly Rope Bondage 101 classes Instructor | see Events Page for upcoming classes
  • Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont| Asian American Identity in Sex Worker Rights Activism and Media | Hosted by Raisins- Radical Asians 
  • Main Street Public Library Flushing Queens Teach In| Speaker with DecrimNY & Red Canary |  Educational for local communities about sex worker rights and anti-violence through storytelling and solidarity
  • MoMA PS1 Queens, NY| Collaboration with Tamara Santibañez & Jinhee Kwak | Curated by Doreen Garner| Alternative Modes of Penetration- a powerful examination of the tattoo process.
  • Moderator for Banana Magazine's panel discussion on Asian American Femme Sexuality presented at The Wing 2019
• 2018
  • Barnard College Consent Seminar and Mercy Mistress screening for Take Back the Night Oct 2018Museum of Sex: Sexual Sorcery discussion with Tiona McClodden & Lissa Rivera--a tribute to Leonore Fini 2018
  • Women of Color in Solidarity Conference, March 2018: Reclaiming Kink Sexuality
• 2017
  • Queering Asian American Femme Identity at Rattlestick Theater, Nov 2017: Panel Discussion Speaker| Presented with Yellow Jackets and Collective Sex
  • Museum of Sex: Rope Bondage 101 | curated by Rebecca Goyette for Araki show 2018
  • New Women Space BDSM 101; BDSM & Healing :Discussion on Trauma Mastery vs. Trauma Reenactment 2018
  • Lesbian Sex Mafia Rope Bondage 101 2005 & 2018
• 2000's
  • The LeathermanNYC Christopher St, NYC: Bondage Exploratorium 
  • Floating World: Utilitarian Bondage: Make Home Depot your Sex Store 2008
  • KYR LGBTQIA NYC Center with SWP  lawyer, Saskia Baskin, addressing the 2007 raids on pro-kink sex workers
  • Hurricane Katrina mutual aid fundraiser for New Orleans Sex workers and artists at the Chelsea Hotel, producer/host
  • KYR Oakland and San Francisco with pro-dommes ​

PODCAST INTERVIEWS:

• COUCHED- a convo with psychoanalysts, Dr. Katie Gentile, Dr. Billie Pivnick, and Dr. Romy Reading *one of my favorite conversations recorded!
• Dyking Out
• Unbroken Chain with Maura James McNamara: Delving into my personal healing work of BDSM
• Seek Treatment: Catherine Cohen and Pat Regan talk to Margaret Cho, Poppy Liu, and Yin Q about Mercy Mistress and getting Kinky
• Why Are People Into That!? with Tina Horn: Poppy Liu and I chat with the phenomenal Tina Horn about Mercy Mistress
• ​My Favorite Word is Cruelty: Masocast: A fantastic podcast, produced by Axe. This interview is vintage, but still conveys my ideas on ritual.

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Sex Out Load with Tristan Taormino podcast interview: