A free guided tour with Anders Johan Malmgren through the exhibition With Legs Wide Open – A Whore’s Ride through History in German Sign Language, without spoken language.

The history of sex work has so far been written, if at all, mainly by its regulators and oppressors. In public discourse about sex work, there are many opinions, but little information. Those whose expertise is based on lived experience are almost never asked. So-called “protection laws” have been developed without involving sex workers. In With Legs Wide Open, this story is written differently. A narrative unfolds that is characterized by pride, self-determination, loudness and the fight for justice. With Legs Wide Open, the Museum of Sex Work at the Gay Museum creates an unprecedented space where sex work presents itself as an art of survival and creates a political, labor rights vision for all.

A sex worker collective has curated a German and Berlin history from a whore’s perspective using archive material, oral history and artistic interventions. The central idea: Nothing about us without us! Sex work history as a “Whorestory”, as a critical examination of institutional devaluation, regulation and surveillance, but also as a visualization of sex work culture through the ages, from the Middle Ages to contemporary activism.

Registration is not necessary. Participation is free, you only have to pay for admission to the SMU itself.