PJ Starr is a performer, filmmaker and photographer. She conceptualized the idea of the “whore gaze” as a means to interpret sex workers’ engagement in the creation of media as muses, spectators, and creators. She developed the idea of “whore futurism,” positing that sex work is part of our human future and in fact that theories and practice developed by sex workers are essential in melding technologies, experiences, and paths for radical tomorrows. PJ has created public spectacles and installations at places such as MOMA-PS1 (2018), Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2022), AIDS2022 in Montreal, and USCHA2022 in Puerto Rico. She is the director of the award nominated film No Human Involved (2016) and is completing her second feature film entitled Manifesting Monica Jones. Her photography has been featured in museums and shows such as Philadelphia Assembled at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Sex Worker Pop-Up Museum in New York and at the CREA WORLD reconference, Kathmandu, Nepal. She was shortlisted with The Incredible, Edible Akynos for a Creative Capital Award in 2022 and together they received a Creatives Rebuild New York grant for 2022 and 2023.