Erin's new album Mantra Girl was released in Fall 2002. In it she explores ancient Sanskrit-based mantras set to stirring dance rhythms, backed by the New York Philharmonic.
Click here to visit Erin's Mantra Girl website.

In this one-hour talk, writer and feminist speaker Erin Kamler will take the audience on a journey through one of New York City’s most controversial strip clubs, Runway Sixty-Nine, where she worked as a stripper during the mid-1990’s.

Ms. Kamler will describe the climate of New York City strip clubs during the years of 1994 through 1997, examining the inherent contradictions of an environment that simultaneously objectifies and empowers women. She will illustrate the problems that prevail within the sex industry and their effects on young women of varying economic classes, ages, and nationalities. Ms. Kamler will explore why during the height of the AIDS epidemic America’s obsession with sexual voyeurism continues to grow in rapid proportion.

In addition, Ms. Kamler will deconstruct mainstream America’s confused attitudes towards sexuality, and examine the reasons why many young women use stripping as an attempt to find their voice within a seemingly false and stifling culture.

Ms. Kamler will address the following questions:

• How do young women in mainstream American culture find and express their power?
  

• What does the sex industry allow and provide young women that mainstream American culture denies them?
  

• Why do both the sex industry and mainstream American Culture prescribe and reinforce the equation that sexual freedom is congruent with sexual exploitation?
  

• How can we, as young women, empower ourselves in our quest for self-expression, sexual identity, and personal power