PLUMA SUMAQ

Pluma Sumaq is an emerging writer, photographer and installation artist. She currently lives in California and is working on her first memoir. 

Studied writing under: 

Elmaz Abinader

Kiese Laymon

Regina Louise 

Brynn Saito

Ronaldo Wilson

Xochiquetzal Candelaria 

Studied photography under: 

Michael Kawano

Publications 

2015 Print Essay, A Disgrace Reserved for Prostitutes: Complicity & the Beloved Community, LIES Vol II, AK Press

2016 Online Article, Uprooting Whorephobia: Why We Must Change the Stigma of Sex Work, The Body Is Not An Apology

Exhibitions 

2011 Co-curated, INTERSECTION: Stories through art by sex workers of color, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

2017 Group exhibition, El Derecho, We’re Still Working: The Art of Sex Work, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

2019 Group, exhibition, On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY

2020 Group exhibition, Sex Workers’ Pop-Up, The Atrium, New York, NY

Awards & Residencies 

2010 Poets 11 Award, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

2018 Writing Residency, Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, WA

Recent Writing Workshops 

2016 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, San Francisco, CA

2016 VONA Voices, Miami, FL

2017 VONA Voices, Philadelphia, PA

2017 Hedgebrook Vortex, Whidbey Island, WA

2017 Las Dos Brujas, San Francisco, CA