The Black Sex Workers Collective (BSWC) and PJ Starr collaborated to create photography, video, animation, and audio with the membership of Black sex workers to highlight their perspectives on climate change, the environment, and gender justice. The project provided training to BSWC members to document their daily lives through their medium of choice to create exhibits about the oppression of sex workers and the impact of climate change. This included a showcase during the 2023 Commission on the Status of Women, an edition of Heaux Tales in Berlin in 2023, and an evening of performance in New York in 2024. The project dovetails with The BSWC’s plans to develop and share principles regarding sex worker rights and the environment at the United Nations. BSWC members and artists traveled for the first time to Geneva in June 2024 to participate in the Human Rights Council and documented their journey. This collaboration empowered Black sex workers as artists who own and control their work, while fundraising for their own projects all across New York.

Founded on the principles of Black liberation, the Black Sex Worker Collective (BSWC) is a Black and sex worker-led organization, fully and permanently committed to Black leadership for the rights of sex workers. Their work confronts white supremacy by dismantling its roots which intersect with labor, immigration, reproductive rights, accessibility rights, gender equality, and sex worker rights.