Sophia Rosen-Fouladi and Ottilie Nye
The Sexy Pigeons are a sex positive collective hosting workshops for women and non binary people. You can read more about their work with the RAD project here.
An interactive exhibition
On the 22nd March 2025 we (the Sexy Pigeons) facilitated our 6th workshop of the year at the Deptford Lounge, which took on the form of an interactive exhibition. The exhibition was in part a culmination of all the work we produced throughout the year so far – from previous data poems displayed on the walls to a communal timeline hanging in one corner. It was also an opportunity once again for us to experiment with structure and form as ‘the idea behind this was to create a freer structure to the day’. We wanted visitors to wander around the exhibition in their own time, and contribute towards the various exhibits they were drawn to – allowing for a more personalised journey through sex education.
‘It allowed visitors the freedom to engage with the work more on their own terms, which encouraged more introspection. As much as bringing the conversation outwards is still vital, sometimes we can find empowerment and build confidence through quieter self-reflection and deep thought.’ (Sexy Pigeons, 2025)
The exhibits included a recording booth, a vulva painting stand, an interactive timeline, a ‘things I wish I’d known’ board, a data poem activity, a WRAP informational section pieced together with previous participants’ work, and a table all about the Sexy Pigeons/Cum on Down project.
You can find out more about each of the exhibits here!
Sexy Pigeons on Film!
The interactive exhibition day became a very exciting catalyst for a collaboration between the Sexy Pigeons and Carwell Casswell productions: a multi-award-winning creative studio specialising in documentary and experimental film. Following on from a conversation with producer/director Stefania Silvestri, we were fascinated by a recent short film entitled ‘Vulva’ produced by Carwell Casswell, as it investigated themes of insidious genital shaming and vulva diversity – topics very close to the Sexy Pigeons’ hearts.
This initial conversation led to consultations at Carwell Casswell’s studio, a participant call- out, a deep dive back into the WRAP archive and finally a filming day on the 31st May 2025 at Hoxton Hall.
The idea behind this day of filming was to select four individual participants for an hour-long interview, with the aim of capturing a much deeper, honest, personal experience of someone’s sex education from school to its impact on their present-day life.
‘We were able to explore such a huge variety of topics from important relationships to kink, queerness, neurodivergency, drag, sex education, familial relationships, female friendship, constructs of ‘first times’ and virginity and so much more beyond that’ (Sexy Pigeons, 2025)
We chose to reanimate the WRAP data through ‘re-asking’ questions from selected the interviews – with questions carefully selected for each participant. Participants were sent their interview to read and familiarise themselves with before the filming day. They were each given the opportunity to request the omission of any content/questions and alternatively content they found of particular interest. We then devised our own set of questions in response to the WRAP interviews – drawn from areas we felt were either lacking, or entirely non-existent such as an exploration of queer identities, gender-expression, pleasure and the kink community.
These interviews are in the process of being reviewed and edited by the Sexy Pigeons, with the aim of eventually adding them to the Reanimating Data archive – building on the RAD project research into the changes and continuities in intimate lives, as well as making their own call to arms for the improvement in the quality of sex education in the UK – calling for creative, playful, intersectional and compassionate sex education.