Despo Debby is a queer Blak radical sexworker artist, performer and musician, based onWurundjeri country in so-called “Australia”. Part of the sex worker arts collective Debby Doesn’t Do It For Free, Despo Debby’s body of work explores their lived experiences of straddling intersecting marginalised identities with defiance, tenderness, critical insight and some cheeky lols. Despo’s lived reality is that of being Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and English, a sexworker from private, brothel, online and street based workplaces, a recovering drug addict, a crip living with disabilities and mental illness, a nonbinary queer femmeboy.Despo Debby fiercely challenges whorephobic media tropes, negative stereotypes and disempowering abolitionist perspectives to scream from the rooftops: SEXWORK IS WORK!
