Netherlands
They/Them
2023 Cohort
GiA is a queer sex worker, sex educator, pleasure activist, SRHR Advocate, writer, and all-round creative collaborator living in Amsterdam. They have an educational lineage that, together with lived experiences, non-university-dictated books, and meetings with interesting souls and projects, has made them move through the multiple, diverse and endless field of pleasure.
Pleasure Nights and documentary on sex workers as sex educators 
GiA is a queer sex worker, sex educator, pleasure activist, SRHR Advocate, writer, and all-round creative collaborator living in Amsterdam. They have an educational lineage that, together with lived experiences, non-university-dictated books, and meetings with interesting souls and projects, has made them move through the multiple, diverse and endless field of pleasure. GiA sees pleasure as a power to create community and imagine new ways of connection and intimacy. Following Adrienne Marie Brown, they see pleasure as a force to help the fight against the colonial, racist, patriarchal and sexist hierarchies of human bodies. GiA sees sex work as an integral part of this. They are interested by the intersection of creation as change and therefore change in creation. This is both on a theoretical as well as a practical level. GiA believes pleasure is activism; in a world where you’re not allowed to fully be according to the normative and restrictive rules, experiencing pleasure is a revolutionary act. GiA is the creator of Pleasure Nights, a series of queer FLINTA* nights to research, practice and create pleasure. They are currently developing a pleasure-based, trauma-informed, consent-full sex education program in Amsterdam and working on a new writing series.
GiA plans to create more series of their Pleasure Nights sessions and a documentary on sex workers as sex educators.
Who better to educate on CSE and pleasure than those who bring it to the people on a regular and professional basis? As a thank you to the sex workers who participate in this documentary, GiA intends to host a Pleasure Nights Sex Worker Edition. Although being together and indulging in the subject of pleasure together would be a good introduction to the making of the film, the documentary would not focus on these nights. The project would carry an educational purpose. GiA would film different sex workers about their view on sex work as sex education and how this can help everyone, both sex workers and non-sex workers. Next to the purpose of CSE, the documentary helps destigmatise sex work and sex workers. It would show sex workers and their profession as a valuable part of society and as experts sex workers could guide others to navigate the messiness that sex can sometimes be. This documentary, then, could be shown at different festivals but it could also be something that could be used for educational purposes, in schools, universities and workshops.
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