Mariko Passion, Educated Whore and Urban Geisha is a performance artist | activist | educator | whore revolutionary. She sings and rhymes her experiences and reality over beats, produces and edits documentary videos, and educates the community.

This community includes current and potential clients (any men listening basically), current, former and previous workers; the queer community, college classes, feminists, women of color, and more. She panels at conferences in the U.S and internationally and has been published in $pread, SF Examiner, interviewed on KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, Shake Clear Channel’s LGBT Radio, and Radio Suzy 1. She is available to create a workshop, presentation, or performance for groups.

Ms. Passion has 9 years of experience in sex work. She has worked as a stripclub stripper, private dancer, agency escort, independent escort, Mistress/Dominant, and sensual masseuse.

She is currently a sex worker in Los Angeles under a different name and running the LA chapter of Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles (SWOP-LA).

Ethnically half Japanese, Mariko the self titled “urban geisha” follows the tradition of being well versed in conversation, fine art, music, singing and story telling as it was with the geisha of traditional Japan. Working as a call girl in the big wild city of LA, is a LOT different than a Kyoto tea house or even Tokyo a couple of centuries or even decades back. “I used to shudder at the idea of being compared to a geisha, but I realized in my own sort of way, Mariko Passion is exactly that minus the submissive part. Maybe being a geisha isn’t such a bad thing! Perhaps in the same way that some sex workers today are seen as submissive objects who aren’t that at all, perhaps it was that same way with the traditional geisha. “

Mariko earned a Masters Degree in Social Justice Education from “a good school”. [But] She chooses to run SWOP-LA, the non profit organization she founded, and fight for the self determination and justice of sex workers everywhere instead of have a “real job.” “Social Justice education can happen EVERYWHERE, at any moment, not just in the schools. I am using my Masters Degree to the fullest, except now I put MSW–Master of Sex Work after my name instead because it seems more fitting.”

CONTACT HER

for gigs, consultations, or interviews EMAIL:

mariko.passion at GMAIL dot COM