curated & produced in collaboration with Juno
THIRST is a bi-monthly trans + queer strip night, showcasing performance from across queer sex worker communities. It serves as an entry point for many queer people to engage with sex work for the first time In an unstigmatised space, as well as seeking to provide a safe(r) work environment for those booked to perform. Performers are cast across a wide range of experiences, and acts range from traditional strip/pole dance, to fetish performance and bloodletting.
The monthly queer-trans strip night produced by Juno and Mars Hobrecker is not your average strip show: pleaser boots with lit sparklers attached to the heels, ballroom performers, lap dances from a dancer wearing a strap-on, and shibari. But the true essence of the night is fostered by the performers and their audiences — if you can get a ticket before they sell out. . .
Organizers like Hobrecker and Juno are first and foremost interested in creating spaces for current and former queer sex workers. Whether that’s through creating a space for trans women and trans femmes — who are often excluded from traditional strip clubs — as well as working nonbinary strippers who perform fully fluid in ways they can’t at traditional clubs.
- Han Schneider, How Trans Strip Nights Are Creating Their Own Spaces Everywhere (Gay Times)