« S.W.E.A.T. » (Sex/uality. Work. Extraction. Art. Theatr/ics): with Fariya Mohiuddin #25

Fariya Mohiuddin is the Senior Program Officer, Tax and Policy (Global) at the International Budget Partnership. Since joining IBP in 2019, she has been leading the Tax Equity initiative’s regional and global work as well as providing strategic support to the Tax Equity’s in-country work across Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania. Prior to joining IBP, Fariya was the Strategic Programs Researcher at the Tax Justice Network where her focus was on developing a human rights, feminist, and gender equality focused network of tax activists and researchers as well as research on the link between human rights and tax justice. In this role, she was an inaugural steering committee member of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice’s Global Tax and Gender Working Group and helped lead the creation of its first strategy framework; she was also the main organizer behind the Global Convening on Women’s Rights and Tax Justice in Bogota in 2017. Fariya has also worked with the International Centre for Tax and Development, the World Bank Group, the Ford Foundation, and Open Society Foundation on research projects on the political economy of accountability, citizen engagement and transparency in relation to taxation. She holds both a Bachelor’s of Arts (Economic and International Relations) and a Master’s of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto.

We all sweat as we provide care, as we labour, as we perform our work, as we fuck, as we survive and as we sacrifice one choice for the other. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, our racialized bodies, our creative lives and the ways in which we provide care? How do we perform both tasks and identities within the framework of that which we consider work? These conversations are a means to speak between intersectionalities by anchoring through our (always, already, and ever pervasive) sexualized and racialized bodies, our working bodies, our artistic bodies and our performative bodies. I hope that they contribute to dialogues which normalize sex work as work, and all work as deserving of respect, healthy conditions, and a living wage.

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Mad Kate (they/them) is an electronic producer, sound designer, performance artist and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. Their explorations of borders between/within bodies, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world.