I have spent more than three decades as a muse and collaborator, provocatrice and fantasy, working with photographers, filmmakers, and artists to create images that complicate dominant narratives about Black women, sexuality, and labor. My work has evolved into that of a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and emerging archivist, centering the ethical documentation and preservation of the lives and labor of Black sex workers like myself, who are often pushed to the margins and systematically erased from cultural memory.

I work at the intersection of art, advocacy, and institution-building, using film, literature, and self-portraiture to explore sexual politics, intimacy, and desire. My lived experience as a sex worker, Black Feminist pornographer, and community organizer informs my artistic practice. I create work that refuses rescue narratives, instead grounding itself in bodily autonomy, survivor justice, and the radical potential of self-determination. My creative practice insists that our stories, our labor, and our lives matter beyond the narratives others construct for us.
My current filmmaking practice explores sexual politics, intimacy, desire, and aging. These works have screened domestically and internationally, positioning intimate knowledge as a form of scholarship and resistance. As a visual storyteller, I am interested in how images can both document and transform the conditions of our lives.

As an Archiving the Black Web Fellow, I began developing my personal digital archive and working on peer-reviewed writing related to this project. Since then, I have acquired the Jean Stevens archive, a significant multimedia collection spanning six decades of adult entertainment history and international travel photography from the 1960s to the 1970s. I am actively seeking institutional partnerships to preserve and manage this collection. I approach archiving as an act of futurity, ensuring that the work of elders, contemporaries, and my own 32-year career remains accessible for generations of artists, activists, and scholars.

As a writer, I work across academic, trade, and first-person nonfiction to examine the intersections of labor, pleasure, disability, and liberation. Recent contributions include the Afterword in Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use (2024), a nonfiction short story in Coming Out As A Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Privacy, and Protection, 2nd Edition (2025), and a speech in We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (2025). I am currently working on an untitled genre-blending memoir that has attracted interest from literary agents and editors.

My practice is informed by a commitment to anti-carceral, anti-colonial frameworks. I reject the conflation of sex work with trafficking and challenge systems that criminalize survival. Alongside my archival and writing work, I maintain a creative practice as a collagist, amateur photographer, and rootworker, anchored in the belief that life itself is an artistic practice.

I am the Matriarch of an intergenerational household, co-parenting my medically complex twelve-year-old grandson with my non-binary adult child.

 

I live and work in Brooklyn with an acquired brain injury.

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Current Work & Residency Interests

I am particularly interested in residencies and fellowships that support:

 

• Sustained time for writing and editing my genre-blending memoir on adultery and non-monogamy, which examines desire, betrayal, and chosen intimacy outside conventional relationship structures.

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• Completion of peer-reviewed writing deliverables related to Archiving the Black Web.

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• Development of my personal digital archive documenting 32 years as a muse, collaborator, and creative practitioner.

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• Archival work related to the Jean Stevens collection—including cataloging, digitizing, contextualizing materials, and developing frameworks for institutional partnership.

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• Development of the Black Sex Workers Collective - Berlin digital archive and physical library.

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• Film projects that explore intimacy, community, and the aesthetics of care within marginalized spaces.

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• Space for collage work and visual experimentation.

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• Paid fellowships and residencies, and/or those that offer stipends for travel, materials, and childcare​

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• Collaborative environments where I can engage with other artists, activists, and scholars working at the intersections of art, labor, and social justice.

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• I am drawn to residencies that honor lived expertise, support disability access, and understand that caregiving responsibilities are part of sustainable creative practice. I seek spaces that value anti-carceral frameworks and recognize sex work as legitimate labor worthy of documentation, celebration, and preservation.