WE ARE HERE
by Delphine Mason
Sex workers, like anyone who exists on the fringes of “normative” society, are a unique indicator of societal condition. We are the canary in the coal mine. When our rights go, yours are soon to follow. When our presence dwindles, you can bet you are next. The walls seem to be closing in. Not just for us, but for many.
It is more important than ever to show that we have been here, we are still here, and we will continue to be here. Despite censorship, despite legal opposition to our existence, our bodies, our sexualities, and our genders, despite moving in the shadows since the beginning of time, despite being your dirty little secret for generations, we are here.
Sex workers are some of the most multi-skilled, multi-talented, creative people I have ever met. In today’s day and age, you kind of have to be in this work. It’s important for us to put ourselves out there, take up the small amount of space we have, and make our mark, so our imaginative artistry, our strengths, and our many different forms of genius will not get erased by shadowban, account deletion, arrest, and more.
Sex workers have been creating since the beginning of time. Just like any slice of society, we are artists, we are athletes, we are cooks, we are students, we are teachers, we are parents, we are lovers, we are friends, we are creators.
But, it’s crazy hard to find much about our history, especially our artistic contributions to the world. There are slivers here and there. There are a few archives and collections, but like most things in the world of “fine art,” from what I know, most of these are motivated by wealth, tax breaks, and the same factors of capitalism and patriarchy that keep us down in other arenas.
Personally, I have been so inspired by the recent generation of sex worker activists, and a deep feeling of connection to whore ancestors, to make some kind of contribution for future generations of sex workers to find.
Through this anti-curatorial process, we aim to create an unbiased digital and physical archive of sex worker creativity open to all current and former in-person sex workers.
WHAT EXACTLY IS
WE ARE HERE?
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A PHYSICAL ART SHOW at 465 Collective Gallery in SF opening 6 NOVEMBER 2026.
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A VIRTUAL GALLERY visitors from all over the world can “walk around” designed by Hamza Kubba.
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A VIRTUAL GALLERY visitors from all over the world can “walk around” designed by Hamza Kubba.
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A DIGITAL ART CATALOG that will be submitted to the Internet Archive with all artists names keyworded to ensure we can be found by our Sex Worker Descendents now & into the future.
SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
must meet ALL guidelines
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People of All Genders Who Do OR Have Done In Person Sex Work
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DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY
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Formatted to 8.5” by 11” at 300 DPI
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DOES NOT need to be related to the title or sex work
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SUGGESTED: Pick something already made (aka Nothing New)
WHO'S BEHIND
WE ARE HERE
Delphine Mason, also known as Your Muse Delphine, is a sex bot (only activated by $100 bills, of course) based in the SF Bay Area, on Ohlone land.
She is a professional escort, dominant, and all-around good time. In addition to session work, Delphine created bondageobsession.com in 2025 to document a return to her first love: heavy, strict, and tight bondage. She also makes body hair fetish & domination videos found elsewhere.
Delphine’s work in the sexual sphere has been the primary vehicle for her artistic expression. Would she consider herself an Artist? Probably not. But a creative person with some kind of artistic output? Sure.
Delphine mainly works with the mediums of photo and video. Her work has included collaborating with photographers on creative, surreal shoots, producing and collaborating on XXX and kinky videos, and creating her own photos related to thoughts on the work itself. She has been working on a vulnerable photo series called “Part of the Mess” for several years, intermittently taking photos of herself amidst “whore messes” - explosions of sex toys, heels, cash, lingerie, snacks, and more that can occur after a photo shoot, session, or work-related trip.
In addition to her skills in the erotic realm, Delphine is a certified hypnotherapist, a yoga instructor and avid yoga practitioner, and a freelance writer. She enjoys explorations of the mind, spirit, and body in various other ways.
You can find out more about Delphine at digitaldelphine.com.
I am Jason Wyman (they/them), also called Queerly Complex, and I was born upon the Land of 10,000 Lakes, also called mní sóta home of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ. I now live, create, and love upon Yelamu, lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, renamed by colonizers Yerba Buena, then San Francisco. My name means, “Healer,” or so I’ve been told. What it means to me is, “Someone eternally and perpetually finding their way.”
I am an artist rooted in queer traditions of familial bonding with those not of one’s blood, of moving to cultivate belonging, of remixing identity and gender and sexuality to become and continue becoming. Some results of my art making have taken the forms of a 30+ feet by 3 feet double-sided participatory sticker mural across from San Francisco City Hall with artists Celi Tamayo-Lee and MC Amable; a creative praxis that cultivates and grows Power-With co-created with Crystal Mason; a durational performance transforming confessions of violence into seeds of change; a collective of Queer Artists co-creating space for radical films, performances, art, words, music, dances, and archives to be crafted and experienced; and site-specific poetry made through conversation with passersby on street corners and in museums and on stages and at street fairs. A throughline weaving all of my expressions and works together is my deep, evolving, co-creative relationships with beloveds (those in intimate proximities,) neighbors (those in physical, social, or virtual proximities,) comrades (those in political or spiritual proximities,) and more-than-human kin (those in cosmic, botanical, zoological, ancestral, archetypal proximities.)
My work has shown in homes, in public transit plazas, in secret gardens, in parks and along water's edge, on streets and alleys, and in institutions, whose names do not matter. I am also a founding Board Member of People Power Media , an Arts, Placemaking, and Virtual Experience organizer with Queer Housing Summit, a Founding Member of 465 Collective, and on the planning team for Chambers of the Heart.