Wh0re Tales; A night of story telling, connection and community for SW

On April 15th 2026, Daddy Charles and Ashley Stafford are rolling in from their respective houses of disrepute to bring you Wh0re Tales; a night of intimate storytelling by community, for community. This event is open to all current and past SW and a selected number of trusted allies.

Whatever corner of the sex work industry you belong to, so many of us know the strange isolation of trying to translate our lives to people outside of it. If you make it past the whorephobia and stigma, you meet the final boss; that glazed-over stare where the civ simply cannot comprehend your experience. Where you realise you are speaking a language they will never fully understand and talking about experiences they may not even fathom.

Whore Tales is our opportunity to come home to each other and just be f-cking real.

From 7pm - 11pm on that Wednesday night, we will gather as community in an almost open-mic setting and share our stories, our laughter, our tears, our hardships, our icks... simply spend an evening in a room where no one needs a glossary. A room where you don’t have to explain the joke. A room where the punchline lands.

The evening will be MCed by Daddy Charles and will follow a simple structure of open mic sections. The topic will be released prior to the night, and there will be a sign-up sheet for those who would like to share. These sections will be broken up with performances and gentle prompts offered to the crowd — invitations, not obligations to share their own thoughts. Performers will be announced soon, all community members and powerful ones at that.

There will be food available for purchase at the venue, because storytelling should never happen on an empty stomach. The venue details will be sent closer to the time to all ticket holders, as protecting privacy protects us. This is an event for sex workers that prioritises our community. Our safety. Our softness.

Tickets are available by donation, with a sliding scale of $5, $10, $25, and $50. If you are a worker who cannot afford a ticket, please message us. We will put you on the door. No worker turned away.

Allies are welcome, but there will be a vetting system in place and all allies must be vouched for by a worker. Ally tickets are $50. This space centres us first.

This event is in collaboration with Mami Mai Tai, and we will be raising money for Touching Base, with proceeds donated to them, extending care beyond the room we gather in.

In the same way that we have all felt the sting of not being understood by those outside the industry, so many of us also know the opposite feeling — the relief of being recognised. The quiet nod across a dressing room. The way someone passes you a sponge, a wipe, a safety pin, a sip of coke zero without being asked.

To be held as you cry into someone’s micro bikini top.

To laugh with your friends about something completely absurd that just happened.

To sit with anger and rage when someone is hurting.

To feel the unspoken love as you’re snuggled up on a worn-out couch ordering Uber Eats at 2am.

The connection. The camaraderie. The kindness that lives in the back rooms, the group chats, the after-work debriefs.

This is a chance for us to come together, speak unfiltered, and be held by each other without performance.

This is for those who have known that back-room magic and even more so for those who are still looking for it.

This is an opportunity to hold and be held, particularly for our younger community members finding their feet in an industry that can be both glittering and brutal.

This is a place of connection. Of learning. Of curiosity about each other’s stories.

A room full of workers.

A room full of truth.

A room that belongs to us with no f-cking whorephobia to drown us out.

We could not be more excited to invite you into it.

It goes without saying that we are meeting on the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. A donation will also be made to ATSISWAG because we pay the f-cking rent here. It Always was and ALWAYS will be aboriginal land. We are actively anti any kind of phobic, and any f-ckwit behaviour simply wont be tolerated. We move with kindness and fierce power.