Girls gotta do what girls do?

Sarnt Utamachote ist eine südostasiatische nichtbinäre Filmschaffende und Kuratierende mit Wohnsitz in Berlin (Deutschland). Sarnt hat das Kollektiv un.thai.tled mitgegründet, eine Plattform für thailändische diasporische Kunstschaffende mit Sitz in Deutschland, und zugleich Teil des Kollektivs Cruising Curators.

Sarnts jüngstes kuratorisches Projekt "Young Birds From Strange Mountains," präsentiert im Schwulen Museum Berlin (2025), widmet sich queeren Kunstschaffenden und Archiven aus Südostasien sowie deren Diaspora. Sarnts Forschung zu im Exil lebenden kambodschanischen Kunstschaffenden in der DDR wurde unter anderem im D21 Leipzig, der MDBK Leipzig, im Rahmen von Echoes of the Brother Countries (2024) am Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin sowie im Kunst Raum Mitte Berlin vorgestellt. Sarnts kürzlich erschiener Kurzfilm "I don't want to be just a memory" (2022-24) premierte im 74. Berlinale Forum.

Tanya Villanueva is a 42 year old artist born in Valenzuela, Philippines. She is the current main coordinator of ArtSchoolNow Salon- a slow-building project that hopes to find ways to queer learning and artmaking by making art a form of community service. Her work as a visual artist is guided by the fact that art has always been perched on the idea of excess, all the while living in a condition of lack.

Francine Lima is a papermaker and book artist who creates works that expand on the tradition and process of papermaking, intertwining the materiality of paper, fibers, and other materials with personal and societal observations. As an auxillary to her papermaking practice, she serves tea in the form of small, intimate ceremonies that dive into different flavors and sensations while also exploring connections among participants, creating unique moments each time. The leaves and other byproducts of each session are later turned into paper.

Sharon Rose "SHAOI" Dadang Rafols is an artist, educator, and community development consultant based in Dumaguete City.  From 2006 to 2012, she served as an Education Peace Officer for the Silliman University's Justice and Peace Centre. She has volunteered abroad as a Training and Communication Advisor for the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Uganda (2013-2014) and Ministry of Agriculture in Minna, Niger State , Nigeria as part of the Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO). She is also a member of several organizations, including Amnesty International, the Philippine Community Organizer's Society, KASIBULAN (an all-Filipina artists' organization) , and the Mindanao People's Peace Movement. She runs Shaoi Arts and Crafts, a small business inspired by peasant women who weave bags and baskets from the local pandan plant. She also facilitates art therapy for women survivors of rape and domestic violence.

The Philippine Sex Workers Collective was established in 2009 by WHORE (Women Hookers Organizing for their Rights and Empowerment), a pioneering organization founded by Huwomanity, and Huwomanity itself, a women's rights organization. WHORE was the first and only organization in the Philippines at that time to advocate and campaign for sex work as work, going against the prevailing feminist movement which regarded sex work as a form of violence against women. This marked a significant milestone in the struggle for sex workers' rights in the Philippines. The Collective unites sex workers across sectors, including trans and male sex workers, to fight for their human rights. Member organizations include Shawushka (trans sex workers), Deviant Daughters (women university student sex workers), Deviant Dudes (male university student sex workers), Red Nobles (male sex workers), with WHORE serving as the lead organization.