COLLECTIVE
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bashexo
bashexo was born and raised in south philly, pa. and currently lives in providence, ri. ze is a trans non-binary transdisciplinary installation|movement performance creative who blends race & queer theory w/African diasporic spiritual traditions & aesthetics. zir’s creative practice is a care conjuring practice, inspired by the poetics of blackness and black queer aliveness. bashexo creates objects, immersive spaces, performances, and workshops that center the exploration of blackness| black queerness within ritualized liberatory care frameworks. zir’s socio-creative framework is rooted in ancestral reverence, feminism, queer theory, research, collectivity, love, experimentation, desire and other healing technologies. bashexo intentionally embraces multinodal and super-temporal relationships among ancestral wisdom, nature, black futurity, somatics, and liberation in order to create worlds (albeit temporaneously) where blackness and black queer folx can be, heal, and thrive. In addition to ze's personal creative practice, bashexo is the co-founding member of unboundbodies art collective, member of playchurch co-op, and co-founder of variable (n).
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Eva Wu
Eva Wu (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work conjures opulent visions, portals to utopias, dreamscapes and remedies of what could be. Working across social practice, installation, design, and new media, She draws on visionary imaging, celebratory future-telling, and self-determinism. Wu delights in public erotics - generating bold remedies to uproot shame. Their work grants permission to celebrate and inhabit ones innermost fantasies - an antidote to repression and sex-negativity. Eva is a Pew Fellow, a recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award, and a co-founder of Hot Bits.
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Heart Byrne
Heart Byrne is a filmmaker, editor and erotic experience curator. Her work explores, place, identity, and the body through personal narrative and fantasy. Raised in New York City by parents who ran a contemporary dance company, her dance background informs her curiosity about the body and performance. She is one of the co-founders of Hot Bits.
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JD Stokely
JD Stokely (they/he) is a trickster-in-training hailing from Philly by way of Boston. They create and curate performances, lectures, and space around queerness, nostalgia, the Black body, and home. Stokely has been working through a series of performance rituals called MOUTH/PIECE that explore the Black feminine mouth as a site of trauma, heartbreak, rage, and resilience. Stokely is a co-founder of Unbound Bodies Collective, a multidisciplinary arts lab for QTBIPOC artists in Boston and beyond that explores the healing possibilities of celebrating community, intimacy, and joy in public.
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TopShelf
TopShelf is a city-dwelling, cuntry-romanticizing kinky queer femme boss. Organizer, activist, facilitator, occasional artist, full time Capricorn, and trained dungeon monitor… for 4 years she co-threw Glitter Thighs (Best Dance Party 2013 CityPaper). She currently facilitates workshops and classes on unlearning and dismantling white supremacy and has peddled sex toys in the woods to 8,000 dykes.
Partners
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Icon Ebony Fierce
Icon Ebony Fierce is a Philadelphia based performance artist and activist that has one mission: to change people's perception of artistic expression one subculture at a time. Icon has a background in theatre, dance, and spoken word performance. Icon also specializes in burlesque, performance art, and drag. Their content includes sex, body positivity, political/social issues, gender equality, etc. Icon is also involved in producing events for Phreak N Queer and co-producing Raspberry Royale and Retrograde Production events.
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Majest t
Majest t (she/her) is a Black, queer, polyamorous, Priestess of Pleasure and Play, Authentic Consent® facilitator, and EroSomatic Touch Practitioner®. An elixir of somatic sexology, theatre practices, and primal energy, she invites embodied explorations that aim to expand pleasure, joy, and connection—where movement and breath and curiosity open pathways to deeper presence and erotic vitality. Majest t is rooted in Western Massachusetts and delights in connections all over the world. -

Soveriengt
Soveriengt (they/them) is a black New England-based sadomasochist neurodivergent leatherqueer with a hedonistic hyperfixation on rope. Their life's yearning is to unearth pleasure in its most vulnerable and nuanced forms. They currently organize for three collectives within the New England Area: Yearn PVD, New England Queer Rope Collective, and The Bimbo Factory. -

La'Deva Arazel
Arazel Newman is an otherwordly handsome Gender Queer Faerie and Fetish Muse incarnated in the Chestnut Hill forests of Philadelphia. Cosmic roots and occult influences can be seen in Their many dimensions of Artistic Expression which include co-producing Philly's only Queer POC Burlesque troupe Raspberry Royale; Acting, Modeling, Painting and other Visual and Performance arts. They encourage reconnection to the authentic self through the exploration, validation and reintegration of the arts, the erotic and the taboo. They also really enjoy eating, fucking and making out with platonic friends.
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Evie Vigil
Evie Vigil (they/them) is a multimodal artist, facilitator, deep listening practitioner and somatic sex educator born and raised in Albuquerque, NM. Coming from 15 years of underground sex work experience, they have co-created sex worker support groups, skill share retreats, communal erotic practice spaces, and organize locally and nationally with artists, bodyworkers, and sex worker collectives. Their mediums of praxis include poetry, performance, film, clay, and collaborative world-building with an emphasis on ancestral ritual technologies. -

mk
mk, born in mississippi and raised in alabama, is a black queer tenderheaded southerner & visual artist/filmmaker living in the southwest. their practice centers archival natures and the questions that influence our identity, memory, and movement. they work in close collaboration with community, organizers, and coalitions to build a more accessible and multidimensional grassroots organizing moment for the digital side of social justice reform in the state of new mexico. -
Chelsey Luster
Chelsey Luster is a Philadelphia-based curator, educator, and visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland. Her work explores the complexities of safe spaces within Queer and Black culture through mixed-media paintings and immersive installations. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Woodmere Art Museum and is part of collections such as Penn Medicine and the Woodmere Art Museum.As a curator, she creates care-centered, community-rooted exhibitions that highlight themes of LGBTQIA+ liberation, racial justice, and feminism. Her approach challenges conventional power dynamics between artists and curators by prioritizing long-term support, creative agency, and mutual respect. Chelsey currently serves as the Exhibition Manager at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, where she manages Isaiah Zagar’s collection and oversees the Julia Zagar Residency for Women Artists.
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Spit Sisters
Your Philly-based spit sisters. They plan parties for the freaks to get wet in unexpected places.
past organizers
Genevieve Diaz y Rodriguez (2018-2020)
Wit López (2018-2019)
TJ (2018-2019)