Gentle Mothh presents
A Midnight Ballet for Sex Worker Rights
Who we are
We center people with lived experience in the fight for sex worker rights. Our Midnight Ballet is an immersive world of contemporary dance, burlesque and pole, live music and legislative action. A joyful night of collective harmony aimed at one goal: public support to pass police sexual misconduct bills around the country.
Our mission
Why it matters
The situation
Police sexual misconduct is the second most reported form of police misconduct, after excessive force. Many states protect people in police custody, but that’s where protection ends.
The complication
Criminalization breeds mistrust and distance between organizations and the people they mean to serve. Without unity, progress stays incremental.
Our answer
Paper Dolls gives people with lived experience a safe space to organize, and a new relationship to the lawmakers deciding their safety: turning community into collective action.
Ring in 2027 with Paper Dolls: dancers, live music, and at midnight, the debut of Silver Lining, the new single from Gentle Mothh.
Location to be announced.Sign up and you’ll hear first when tickets go on sale.
An intimate Paper Thin music video shoot with Gentle Mothh + company, plus the Paper Dolls dancers in a new VIP pop-up strip club experience, for one night inside Everywhere Shop before it opened.
Paper Dolls tees, Angel Bills and Paper Thin on vinyl, from Ash + Chess.
The live album release of Gentle Mothh's Paper Thin: an evening of contemporary, burlesque and pole performances, a postcard campaign for legislation protecting our queer, trans and sex worker siblings, and the first Paper Dolls pop-up strip club.
Gentle Mothh’s album Paper Thin is out now.
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About
Executive Producer (she/her)
Gentle Mothh is a queer Taiwanese-American performance artist based in the Hudson Valley. Her background as a sex worker shapes the form and ethos of her practice. She is a legislative advocate for sex work decriminalization in New York State. She believes all beings should be free.
Art Director (she/her)
Ashley Molesso is a queer artist, writer, small business owner, angel, clarinetist and dyke. She is the co-owner of stationery and illustration brand Ash + Chess and local gay gift store Everywhere Shop in Kingston, NY. Her design aesthetic has been described as “a personal dollhouse hell” and “kind of like if Lisa Frank was gay.”
Experience Director (she/her)
Steph Alinsug is a queer survivor, mother, daughter of immigrants, and creative technologist. She builds immersive, physi-digital worlds that shift belief and behavior for cultural change.
Ops + Business Manager (she/her)
Blessing supports Gentle Mothh’s creative projects through operations, project coordination, and systems management. She loves bringing order to creative ideas and helping turn big visions into reality, making sure things stay organized and moving forward behind the scenes.
Get involved
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Tees, Angel Bills™ and Gentle Mothh’s Paper Thin on vinyl, from Ash + Chess.
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Tips go to the Paper Dolls Collective Care Fund, which pays our performers.
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We'll draft a note asking your New York state senator and assembly member to co-sponsor S.4404 / A.5399.
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New shows, new cities, and the music video when it drops.
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Venues, dancers and organizers: bring Paper Dolls to your town.
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