Sex Workers Art Show
The Sex Workers Art Show is an annual tour in the United States of art and performance by former and current sex workers: prostitutes, strippers, phone sex operators, professional dominatrices, porn models and performers, etc. Performance modes include burlesque, spoken word, and music (ranging from solo acoustic performance to punk rock to R&B). Participants in past years have included Annie Sprinkle, Scarlot Harlot, Candye Kane, and Michelle Tea.
Starting in 1998 in Olympia, Washington, and founded by a stripper known as Annie Oakley (named after a woman performer in Wild West shows, the subject of the musical Annie Get Your Gun), the show has occurred annually, and expanded in 2004 to a month-long national tour.
The pieces typically range from the very sex-positive to some very dark pieces about the abuse that sometimes comes with working in the industry.
