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Sex work is one of the most persistently misreported subjects in journalism — covered constantly, but rarely with the people who know it best. Stories tend to swing between scandal and rescue, harm and taboo, leaving little room for the everyday realities, histories, and agency of the communities involved. What would it look like to report on sex work, and pleasure more broadly, from the inside out?
This Deep Dive is built around SEX WORK: A Cultural History, the Bundeskunsthalle's landmark exhibit co-created with a collective of sex workers under the guiding principle Nothing about us without us. The perfect backdrop for this conversation (and with free access to the exhibit before it closes in October) the session will kick off in the installation itself for a guided walkthrough led directly by its co-curators, before moving into group listening and workshopping sessions. Throughout the exhibit experience, live storytelling session and workshop, we together tackle: How can journalism avoid tropes and traps of sex work dis- and misinformation, and what does getting it right look like?
Hear directly from folks with lived experience, including Anne Bonny, sex worker, activist, and representative of Hydra e.V., Berlin's oldest sex worker organization. Rather than a standard museum tour and storytelling session, this is behind-the-scenes narration: why a living archive built by sex workers themselves matters, how objects and testimony resist erasure, and what it means to write history from inside a community rather than about it.
The second half returns participants to the museum’s gathering space for a hands-on workshop. Working from real examples in the media alongside their own story pitches and drafts, journalists will examine the legal policy, language, framing, and sourcing habits that reinforce one-dimensional narratives — and practice reporting that centers nuance, complexity, and lived expertise instead. While rooted in sex work, the skills are directly transferable to any beat where journalists report on communities that are more often spoken about than spoken with: protest movements, migration, disability, climate displacement, and other minoritized groups.
This session is intentionally intimate and open to anyone who wants to help better sex work discourse and dissemination.
The Fuller Project is a global, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to investigative reporting on systems that disproportionately affect women and gender diverse-people — work that repeatedly puts editors and reporters in direct contact with the gap between how sex work is talked about, legislated, and how it's actually lived. The exhibit setting, paired with Fuller’s gender-lensed reporting grounds this session in practice rather than theory.
What you can take away from this Deep Dive:
- A firsthand look at how a living archive, built and controlled by the community it represents, can inform and challenge journalistic practice
- Concrete tools for identifying and rewriting harm-centered framing in your own reporting and newsroom messaging — applicable well beyond sex work
- Direct connection with sex worker-led artists, activists, and editors doing this work daily, plus fellow journalists grappling with the same questions
Der Veranstaltungsort: Bundeskunsthalle
