Collection Description: Private Practices is a collection developed alongside artist and organizer Kayla Tange also known as Coco Ono, co-producer of Sacred Wounds, which highlights healing-focused celebrations of Asian perspectives through erotic rituals. She is also the co-founder of Stripper Co-op, the sex worker-run pop-up strip club. The collection that LACA and Tange have established is a living collection, meaning that items—such as screenshots, paystubs, apparel, set pieces, police reports, text messages, and other ephemera pertinent to sexual labor—will be added on an ongoing basis. The March 16th, 2021, shooting spree that targeted Asian women in Atlanta, Georgia, is a stark reminder of the systemic misogyny that minimizes racial violence in the United States. In LACA’s shared neighborhood of Chinatown, we have seen firsthand a notable expansion of police presence. We are mindful that the securitization of our neighborhoods is not the answer to the entrenched systemic misogyny and racism that permeates our country. Private Practices asks how artists, archives, and Chinatown community members can effectively collect together. This collection addresses anti-Asian violence by locating it narrowly in the experience of AAPI sex workers. We believe that by amplifying some of these voices, Private Practices can draw into focus how a uniquely sexual register can mark racism toward Asian bodies.

Scope and Content: The collection is organized by the contributor's names. These include Kayla Tange (Coco Ono), Mariko Passion, Emily Christine Velez Nelms, Lola Chan, Wang Newton, Kim Ye (Mistress Lucy), Riv, Chao Ying Rao, Muse Ling, EthicalDrvgs, Goddess Yuki, Lena Chen, Celeste X, and various anonymous contributors. 

Restrictions: Some items in this collection can only be accessed in person at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) and are unavailable online. Donors have sometimes chosen to be organized under their stage name or anonymously. 

 

Private Practices: AAPI Artist and Sex Worker Collection

Titlesort descending Artist(s)/Author(s) Date Acquired Reference #
A Bare Witness Kayla Noriko Tange 9/12/2018
OS.30786.TA
Answer/Emotion performance [Performance Photographs] Kayla Noriko Tange 10/8/2021
B.32647.TA
Are We A Joke? Vol 1 burlesque Kayla Noriko Tange 9/24/2021
ST.32617.TA
At least I'm not a cracker text messages 3/11/2022
32845.AT
Blood Money Lena Chen, Mary Jane 8/5/2024
B.37217.CH
Confession Box Zine Kayla Noriko Tange 9/12/2018
OS.30785.TA
Credit Card 7/29/2024
B.37286.CR
Dance Receipt from Ricks Cabaret Lena Chen, Mary Jane 7/29/2024
B.37282.CH
Exotika Magazine Celeste X cover Issue 1 Celeste X, 1/19/2024
B.35974.X
Glamour Girl: Issue 4 Kayla Noriko Tange 7/24/2021
OS.32616.TA
Goddess Yuki Candle Goddess Yuki 9/15/2023
B.35445.GO
Goddess Yuki Lighter Goddess Yuki, Laura Lee Benjamin 9/15/2023
B.35446.GO
Lock from locker Lena Chen, Mary Jane 7/29/2024
B.37285.CH
Mariko Passion: From Whore Revolutionary to Tantra Goddess: Sacred Whore Revolution Mariko Passion 10/8/2021
B.32659.PA
Memoirs of an Urban Geisha Vol 1 Mariko Passion 8/20/2021
ST.32510.PA
Nails from performance Lena Chen, Mary Jane 8/9/2024
B.37284.CH
Room Key Lena Chen, Mary Jane 7/29/2024
B.37283.CH
Sacred Wounds [KUMFA Fundraiser ] 10/8/2021
B.32645.SA
Slowdance Love Motel Dan Monick, Goddess Yuki 10/12/2023
B.35594.MO
Throwin up the W (Tupac of Prostitution Dayz) Mariko Passion 8/20/2021
B.32508.PA
[1 Hour Photo Print Set] EthicalDrvgs 9/13/2023
B.35425.ET
[Akira - flyer] Kayla Noriko Tange 10/8/2021
B.32667.TA
[Alhambra Unified School District letter] Mariko Passion 4/25/2022
DO.32934.PA
[arrest docket highlight] Mariko Passion 4/25/2022
DO.32932.PA
[Asian Gezebella vs Aryan Supremacist] Mariko Passion 8/20/2021
B.32518.PA
[Best Western Notes] Mariko Passion 8/27/2021
B.32539.PA
[black pleasers and neon outfit] Riv 10/24/2023
B.35632.RI
[Boundaries Confessions] Kayla Noriko Tange 9/24/2021
B.32615.TA
[Coco Ono Blowjob Bib] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/23/2021
B.32523.TA
[Coco Ono Braid] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/20/2021
B.32502.TA
[Coco Ono Mirrored Shoes] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/20/2021
B.32499.TA
[Coco Ono's Thong Outfit] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/20/2021
B.32498.TA
[complaint] Kim Ye 10/8/2021
B.32666.YE
[Confession Text Notes] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/13/2021
B.32488.TA
[Confessional dollars] Kayla Noriko Tange 10/8/2021
B.32643.TA
[Corset Card] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/20/2021
B.32505.TA
[Crack Pipe and Two Lighters Photograph] Mariko Passion 10/8/2021
B.32650.PA
[Do You Know Who Your Neighbors Are? Flyer and Apartment Listing] Kim Ye 10/8/2021
B.32648.YE
[Hello Kitty Towel] Mariko Passion 9/24/2021
B.32613.PA
[Heroin Kills Rockstars Outfit] Kayla Noriko Tange 9/24/2021
B.32614.TA
[Inbox Vol. 1-3] Kayla Noriko Tange, Luka Fisher 9/13/2023
B.35431.TA
[Is It Me You're Looking For? Dollar Bill] Kayla Noriko Tange 10/8/2021
B.32660.TA
[Jenna Bie website] Mariko Passion 4/25/2022
DO.32931.PA
[Jumbo's Clown Room Postcards] Kayla Noriko Tange 10/1/2021
B.32621.TA
[Kayla Ballet Bag] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/13/2021
B.32490.TA
[Kayla Tange CDs] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/23/2021
B.32521.TA
[Latex Lips Bra] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/20/2021
B.32500.TA
[Mariko Passion Black and White Portrait] Mariko Passion 10/8/2021
B.32657.PA
[Mariko Passion Portrait] Mariko Passion 10/8/2021
B.32644.PA
[Montreal Heels] Kayla Noriko Tange 8/20/2021
B.32497.TA

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