Resistance,
Art & Activism
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Since 2000
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SUBMISSIONS ClOSED
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Our Background
Since 2000, Tucson sex workers have been making the world a safer place for those in the industry and the people who love them. Over twenty years ago we held our first annual Sex Worker Arts Festival - three days of workshops, panels, fun, and films! Sex worker activists, authors, scholars, performance artists, poets, and filmmakers from around the world converged on Tucson to educate and entertain.
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Sex workers have served as subject material for filmmakers since the dawn of cinema and continue to be trotted out for the non-sex worker gaze, often furthering stigma and dehumanization of our community with real the world consequences of discrimination, violence and death.
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This year we are partnering with The Outlaw Project for three
extraordinary days of films from the sex worker's gaze along with Q & As, performance and panel discussions.