Red Maps Team, San Francisco

Instagram: @OldProsonline 
Website: oldprosonline.org

Bios:

Bambi Rising is a community documentary based in Huchiun, on unceded Lisjan territory. Their work is rooted in shared consciousness, honors ancestral legacies and celebrates the absurdity that is life. They love learning, being outside and feel at home in water.

Dahlia Snow is a sex worker, artist and health educator with a passion for supporting and uplifting the voices and stories of other erotic laborers and activists fighting for this and other marginalized communities – Just trying to hear all the sex workers stories, make weird art and eat all the good food! 

Instagram: @dahlia_snow

Paisley Parker is a multidisciplinary artist invoking several mediums in their work including dance, film, collage, visual art and poetry. Through their work they push to inspire transformation and healing of POC and black bodies through storytelling, poetry and movement in hopes of manifesting a world where queer black individuals can exist in their own skin. Paisley Parker currently lives in Oakland, writes sad boi poetry and loves to dance and cook for their chosen family. 

Instagram: @paisley__parker

Artist Statement: These videos are part of a historical interactive map project called Red Maps, currently available online. Our Red Maps teams in Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California mapped out places where sex workers and stigmatized workers have long existed, exploring communities and networks informed by erotic laborers. While sex working communities are often displaced, our history cannot be erased.

Old strolls, cribs, clinics, places of community, and more are highlighted by Red Maps, and supplemented by additional archival materials and present day recollections. Bringing attention to locations that are important in sex worker history, Red Maps can be enjoyed virtually and in-person.

The Red Maps team hopes these resources will pass down the knowledge from sex worker communities of old and encourage people to find out more about relevant spots in their own neighborhoods. What spaces were safe and welcoming for sex workers to relax? Where did they hide out? What were successful places for soliciting?