« S.W.E.A.T. » (Sex/uality. Work. Extraction. Art. Theatr/ics): with Verónica Aristizábal and Ilok Inti Trujillo #54

Verónica Aristizábal is a Colombian industrial designer, educator, and trans activist bridging community project management with creative, pedagogical strategies. With deep roots in grassroots organizing and mutual-care networks across Colombia and Latin America, she has served as a core facilitator and advocate within the movement for the Ley Integral Trans.

Currently, through Juguetería TRANSensual, she merges tactical design, sexuality, and community empowerment to create spaces of pleasure, learning, and autonomy. Verónica is dedicated to weaving international alliances, connecting trans grassroots activism and mutual-care infrastructures between Latin America and Europe to build sustainable, cross-border networks of collective support.

Ilok Inti is a travesti, non-binary, agender, autistic, and disabled person from Colombia, a popular educator, and an activist for the rights of trans and non-binary people, committed to collective building. They are a co-founder of La Juguetería TRANSensual, a collective rooted in trans, non-binary, disabled, and neurodivergent experiences, working to imagine new ways of inhabiting eroticism, exploring pleasure, and creating our own narratives around desire.

Through the creation of sensory erotic toys, fanzines, workshops, and spaces for gathering, the collective seeks to transform dominant narratives about our bodies and sexualities. Through this work, desire, pleasure, and eroticism become territories of resistance, creativity, and freedom.

Ilok Inti on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ilok_inti/
Verónica Aristizábal on Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/veronica__aristizabal/
La Jugueteria TRANSensual - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lajugueteriatransensual/
Ley integral trans ya - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seraleytrans/
La Jugeteria TranSensual: https://lajugueteriat.wordpress.com/

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.

You can find out more https://www.mad-kate.com/sweat-podcast/

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.