Matilda Bickers pops-up with a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with the collection Working On It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex.

Bickers is paired with the artwork Isis by Charlotte Lewis; found in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibit, on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum.

Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity, this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those who have traded sex, among them a brothel worker in Australia, First Nation survivors of the Canadian child welfare system, and an Afro Latina single parent raising a radicalized child.

Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.