Shelby Aesthetic

Shelby Aesthetic is an artist/writer/film documenter. Shelby has done underground sex work at various times in her life as means of survival, and is currently a sex worker activist. She moved to Alabama in 1998 and is currently doing outreach for sex workers, documenting their lives, and writing for her own underground punk zine. Shelby is a supporter/believer of equality for ALL people. "As long as those in the sex industry are pushed further into the shadows, more rapes, violent acts and murders will take place...How long are we going to sit around while men and women are losing their lives? Decriminalize prostitution!!!"

Shelby is the director of SWOP Alabama, which is located in Huntsville, Alabama. She can be reached for comment at alabama [at] swop-usa [dot] org