Born as a new chapter of the former Berlin Strippers Collective, Slut Riot is a group of Berlin-based sex workers who create performance art and shows. The mission we share is to take control over our own narratives and to find creative outlets to express our voices. The nature of our events is intrinsically political, aiming at destigmatising our professions through arts and performances.
Slut Riot wants to give sex workers a platform to speak, instead of being spoken about.
Existing as a sex worker comes with many challenges, such as: laws impacting us negatively, exploitative working conditions, and stigma tainting our everyday lives. Our performances are self-organised and sex-worker lead, and they allow us to find elements of joy in our world and, on top of that, to establish our own rules in an industry where we don’t have much space to decide over our working conditions.
Amongst others, we have previously collaborated with Berliner Volksbühne, Whole Festival, Lollapalooza DE, Berlin Club Commission, Voo Store for Diesel, Hoemies, House of Lunacy. We offer political striptease, pole dancing, interactive cabaret shows, and much more!
WE ARE PIONEERS
IN OUR FIELD
AND THIS IS
OUR MISSION:
Creating opportunities
for our community
Establishing our own
working conditions
Amplifying our voices
to fight stigma
Drop us a message to collaborate
or book us to spread the slut revolution!
The Slut Riot Manifesto
We are sex workers. Our existence is an act of resistance. We fight for sex worker rights and for the destigmatisation of sexualities - the commercial ones, the queer ones, the unconventional ones, the ones at the margin. We fight against stigmatisation and marginalisation with our voices and our art. This is the Slut Riot.
Society doesn’t like us. They tell us what to do with our bodies, ranting about objectification, using us as scapegoats for the patriarchal dynamics they created themselves. They cast us as victims - and as perpetrators at the same time. The problem lies in our society and not in our job.
Under capitalistic labour relations, all bodies are objects accomplishing tasks - your bodies just as much as ours. Our task, what we sell, is entertainment. We make the rules and we enforce the boundaries. Our work is our stage: we get attention because we consent to it, because we get paid for it. It is our choice. And still, every day is a struggle, every day we are asked to justify what we do.
Governments are trying to silence us with harmful laws that want to erase our existence. But sex work is here to stay and this is our time to speak. We are here to remind you that, if they come for us now, they will come for you next. We will resist stigma, we will stand up against judgment and social norms. We will fight until we achieve full decriminalisation.
We have decided to take control over our bodies. We climb higher and higher up our poles, reaching for liberation. We strip off our clothes, dancing to the rhythm of personal freedom.
We are no victims.
We are performers, we are workers, we are average, we are over the top, we are rowdy, we are elegant, we are loud, we are quiet, we are friends, we are lovers, we are daughters, sons, mothers, everything in between… We are human, and we are divine.