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KK de La Vida is a member of Red Canary Song and pilipinx shifterhood collective, Walang Hiya NYC. A graduate of anthropology from Barnard College and Asian Cultural Council grantee in dance, KK is a sensual bodyworker, herbal alchemist, and performance artist. KK is a migrant settler on Lenape land with origins from Visayas, Philippines.

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A Performa Production Co-opted the Story of a Sex Worker

by KK de La Vida and Banyi Huang November 25, 2019

Without speaking with or even acknowledging the existence of critical members of the sex worker community, Performa has ultimately appropriated migrant sex worker organizing.

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