Tegan Larin

PhD Candidate, XYX Lab, MADA

Core expertise

Melbourne's sex industry

Biography

Tegan is a PhD candidate at Monash Art, Design and Architecture's XYX Lab, where design researchers explore gender-sensitive design practices and theory. Her research includes examining massage parlours and the unregulated sex industry in Melbourne.

articles

Two masked Asian women sitting on the ground hugging, and comforting each other

US shootings should ring alarm bells in Australia – the same racist sexism exists here

Like the US, Australia’s "massage parlours" are reliant on the prostitution, fetishisation and trafficking of Asian women.

Politics and society