A black and white depiction of a figure bent over, the hand on their crotch holding a bit of paper. The stockinged legs fill the frame

Daspu Catwalk at Satyrianas theater festival 2016, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Daspu was created in 2005 by Gabriela Leite, a pioneer of the sex workers movement in Brazil. Daspu is short for “Das Putas”, meaning (designed) by the whores. It is the name of a clothing brand created to raise funds for the sex worker NGO Davida. The name Daspu is also a parody on Daslu (“Dasloo”), a famous luxury department store created by and for socialites from São Paulo, the richest city in Latin America.

Text via Red Umbrella Fund, 'Artivism: A guerrilla tool for sex worker movements' by Aline Fantinatti

Image via Daniela Pinheiro